Why is our weather so rubbish ?

[waterbuffalofarmer]

No year is the same, sadly. One good year for us was 2015, I think? In terms of haymaking that is, ragwort was terrible tho I do think climate change is a big factor in all this. For example I used to be able to plant veg out in april-may, no problem. Now I can't do that until early June, which is a bit of a pain. Not only that but we keep getting high winds and uneven temps, hot one day cold the next. More unpredictable weather patterns in recent years here in Wales tbh...

 

[Paddington]

Article on BBC the other day saying how forecasting accuracy had improved from one day in 1987 to three days at present. I seem to remember the Michael Fish "there is no hurricane coming"forecast was only hours before the 1987 big storm struck, perhaps three days should read three hours ?

 

[4course]

Im not so sure there has been a dramatic change in weather ,we as farmers in the uk have always had dry seasons wet seasons etc as the years are all different .What has changed is the pressure we are under in order to get the job done both physical and financial. however what has happened is the forecasters with all their improved technology have been wrong either short ie /day or mid ie 2-4day for some reason this year to the point where its hardly worth looking ,Since we started grass harvest in late may through cereal harvest and sowing there have been only a handful of days when they have been anything like correct or at least it feels that way ,oh and one of them on tv said this morning that it would be lovely to have breakfast in the garden this morning, so with this in mind decided to have kippers which im only allowed to cook(barbie) and eat outside and I can tell you its,damp, overcast and windy and i need a jacket on

 

[miniconnect]

it really is rubbish. wondering at what point do we give up on our spring barley and put our name on the list of people looking for straw!
by now in 85 things were starting to look up? apparently? dad remembers there was more floods in 85 with dry days between but it was so wet nothing could be done.

i wonder is there any hope of this hurricane banging into the jetstream and moving it north? there was hop of that a month ago but it didnt happen.

 

[Cowmangav]

In 85 it dried up by end of September and there was three weeks of good dry sunny weather , but frosts at night.

 

[SMID]

The wind is in the south east at the new moon on Thursday If a tid comes in with the moon their a chance of a spell ,clutching at straws I know, it was the middle of October when it dried up in 85

 

[Cowmangav]

I'm trying to understand what has happened to us this summer. It's now 24 weeks since we had a totally dry week ( W/E 7th May ).
I've calculated the rolling 4 week rainfall since then , the first four week period being the one ended 4th June , when the total was 68.5 mm.

By the next week , the 4 week total was 140.5 mm followed by 108.5 , 106.5 , 125 , 78 ,108.5 , 117 , 112.5 ( that was period ending 30th July ).

Then it goes 116.5 ,89.5 , 132 , 149.5 , 126.5 , 177 ( !! period ended 10th Sept) , 147 , 122 , 123.5 , 108 , and finally 117.5 - 4wks ended 15th October.

We've had significant rainfall this week too.

So there has been practically no let up in almost six months of what should be the more clement part of the year.

It's an impossible situation.

 

[Wombat]

Rubbish resumed

 

[Y Fan Wen]

We've had 2 weeks with no rain, 2nd wk of June and 1st wk of July. Total for the year is 1519 so far,
Last year end Oct was 1532, 15 was 1110 and 14 was 1123

 

[Wombat]

30+mm since Thursday and pouring again this morning

 

[Cowmangav]

A wet weekend took last week's total to 55 mm and the rolling 4 week amount to 152.5 , or 6 inches.