Why is our weather so rubbish ?

Cowmangav

Member
Location
Ayrshire
Went out to check a cow , and emptied the rain guage at 1am - 26.5 mm - there was only about 4mm in it on Thursday morning which I left in it as it was raining at the time.

We've now had 47.5 mm in first 7 days of September to add to the 402.5 in total for June/July/Aug .

That's 450 mm in 99 days , or almost 18 inches in 14 weeks and a day.

Dec/Jan/Feb total was 305.5 mm - 97 mm ,or 3.8 inches less than the summer. !!

Spoke to a float driver tonight , who said he was on a beef farm at Strathaven , Lanarkshire this week where they have no silage made at all this year.

I'm beginning to feel that I am going to be drowned out , of a farm on top of a hill.
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Went out to check a cow , and emptied the rain guage at 1am - 26.5 mm - there was only about 4mm in it on Thursday morning which I left in it as it was raining at the time.

We've now had 47.5 mm in first 7 days of September to add to the 402.5 in total for June/July/Aug .

That's 450 mm in 99 days , or almost 18 inches in 14 weeks and a day.

Dec/Jan/Feb total was 305.5 mm - 97 mm ,or 3.8 inches less than the summer. !!

Spoke to a float driver tonight , who said he was on a beef farm at Strathaven , Lanarkshire this week where they have no silage made at all this year.

I'm beginning to feel that I am going to be drowned out , of a farm on top of a hill.
can't "like" that
 
Ooooooo careful :) We've been more subtle that that! Consistently said 'highER pressure at the end of next week or next weekend, but certainly not (at this stage) 'high pressure' over the top of us.

Also, we have been very cautious in the past 8-weeks when others have gone with 'high pressure and fine conditions', that's certainly not what we were predicting! ;)
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Ooooooo careful :) We've been more subtle that that! Consistently said 'highER pressure at the end of next week or next weekend, but certainly not (at this stage) 'high pressure' over the top of us.

Also, we have been very cautious in the past 8-weeks when others have gone with 'high pressure and fine conditions', that's certainly not what we were predicting! ;)

Is that the same as he none existent Indian summer last bank holiday week?
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Apparently an Indian summer can only be called so after the first frost. So I heard the other day....

Well it rained 6 days of the bank holiday week so it wasn't summer either, made the mistake of listening to the forecast and not getting some SB cut and the straw both still sat there and I am considering running the big flail through the straw to get rid of it
 

bigw

Member
Location
Scotland
Now at 64.5 mm for first 8 days of September , and BBC forecaster Louise says it's to be windy and wet , next week. This is unbearable.

You have had an awful 'summer' I saw a post on twitter from a guy on the west cost that had over 520mm for june, july and august. Have you managed to get silage made or graze cows this summer @Cowmangav
 

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