Your current weather.

[YorkshireAndrew]

Breezy & cold here - boiler suit back on weather . [emoji51]

 

[Cowmangav]

Bright sun now for last hour. Looks like we could be dry for rest of day - in which case it's our first seven dry days in succession in over a year! Wonders will never cease. Tiree which isn't that far west of us , had nearly an inch yesterday ( 24 mm ).

 

[Fish]

Cold 30kph n wind 12c,
Back to winter

 

[Still Farming]

Red hot here and hay making fast with warm breeze ?

 

[Wombat]

Fresh just over 8 deg with a cold breeze

 

[bovrill]

Plenty of rain overnight, 5mm apparently, but seems more. Fresh morning.

 

[Cowmangav]

Wonderful evening yesterday - still 20 deg at 7pm. Don't know how to take this but met office forecasting another 6 days over 20 deg for us. We'll see.

 

[Still Farming]

Dry last night and dry now still

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Had half an inch last night and rain on and off all day.
Over 50 acres of grass on the ground and unlikely to get wrapped until Saturday now.

We have had pretty awful weather here.

 

[spin cycle]

nice rain here

 

[Sonoftheheir]

10mm here this evening

 

[franklin]

Just started spitting. 8mm would be welcome.

 

[bovrill]

Just started spitting. 8mm would be welcome.

Really? I'm sure it was only a few days ago you were saying it would take months for your moisture levels to drop
What kind of sandy boys ground are you on to want more already?

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Just started spitting. 8mm would be welcome.

You sound like my wife . [emoji51]

 

[franklin]

Really? I'm sure it was only a few days ago you were saying it would take months for your moisture levels to drop
What kind of sandy boys ground are you on to want more already?

It's probably more psychological. The ground that was wettest has dried to a horrid crust and a drop to soften it would stop it cracking horizontally rather than vertically. Spring crops took so long for the ground to dry out that the seeding depth has next to no moisture. It's been said elsewhere that the ground is dry at depth when digging. Much of the winter rain packed the top pores and didn't disk through evenly. Crop roots are not amazing. We had cracks in the clay you could get a hand in two weeks ago .

So yes, 8mm would be welcome. Don't need a lot. Just a little. I think I said an inch a month or 8mm a week in a good dollop would be ideal.

 

[onthehoof]

15mm overnight very welcome as I spent yesterday sowing 10 acres of wild bird mix and then they said we would miss the rain.

 

[radar]

A rather big rain splash event this morning!

 

[franklin]

Hmm. Drizzling here. Nothing more. Rain radar says some's coming though.

 

[radar]

Hmm. Drizzling here. Nothing more. Rain radar says some's coming though.

What! Getting on towards 1/2inch here.

 

[robbie]

Had a very welcome 10 mm here over night. We could just start to see a few drought patches so this should keep things going for another week.