Your current weather.

[Still Farming]

Warm Sunny but job to stand with wind.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

32mm overnight and i would think not far off that again since 9am this morning

 

[sticky]

Been just about dry here today, nothing has registered in the gauge anyway, but by hell its blowing.

 

[DrWazzock]

Very windy. Blustery showers.

 

[ColinV6]

Very very wet here, flooding where I’ve never seen it before, cattle stranded on islands in fields, have a nasty feeling our river bridge into the 3 largest fields we have has taken a battering too. The water is above the height of the bridge

 

[sticky]

Very very wet here, flooding where I’ve never seen it before, cattle stranded on islands in fields, have a nasty feeling our river bridge into the 3 largest fields we have has taken a battering too. The water is above the height of the bridge

Where r u?

 

[ColinV6]

Gretna, Dumfriesshire

 

[Cowmangav]

Dad moved down from Scotland to England in 1953, with first harvest in 1954. It rained so much during August it nearly bust them. By the time the local merchant had bought and dried the grain there was a net gain of precisely zero. They had to lay planks in front of their trailed combine as it tended to sink into the ground with the action of the shaker as it tried to pull the wheat up out of a bed of chickweed and redshank.

He wished he had stayed in Scotland on the dairy farm but the next years were a bit better.

Roughly which part of Scotland?

 

[DrWazzock]

Roughly which part of Scotland?

@Cowmangav
Strathaven area. Uncle still farms there. The dairy herd (which were Ayrshires I think) went many years ago. Now mainly sheep and a few fattening cattle. Into his eighties so winding down a bit!
Always interested to read your posts as it reminds me of what the old folk said about farming up there, particularly the rain. My brother wonders about moving to farm in Scotland as down here it has mostly been taken over by large arable concerns and land is unaffordable. However we were always warned about the rain!

 

[teslacoils]

Changed again. Could be ten more days of no harvest.

 

[ColinV6]

So woke up this morning to see our bridge which provides access to our 3 largest fields has given in, and is currently on the banking about 150 yards down the river on a corner.

 

[ColinV6]

Haven’t seen it myself yet but worker sent me this earlier when he was down. Can’t imagine a new bridge is gonna be cheap

 

[Speedstar]

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Haven’t seen it myself yet but worker sent me this earlier when he was down. Can’t imagine a new bridge is gonna be cheap

the weather is like this all over the world at the moment, makes you think there must be better ways to make a living

 

[Wombat]

Not a bad day at the moment, if it was April be quite nice

 

[Speedstar]

Has rained here for days now over 80mm of rain from Friday morning and still raining

 

[Still Farming]

Wet hot sunny windy tropical??

 

[sticky]

Raining here a the moment after a nice morning.

 

[bobk]

Like November .

 

[jd2013]

Like November .

November in the south or the far North?
yours is still probable 17c and sunny with a firm breeze, compared to 5c pissing rain and a gale force wind!

 

[bobk]

November in the south or the far North?
yours is still probable 17c and sunny with a firm breeze, compared to 5c pissing rain and a gale force wind!

Cold wet and horrible .