How is Northern Irelands maximum temperature record only 31c? There's places inside the Arctic Circle that get above that in summer.
How is Northern Irelands maximum temperature record only 31c? There's places inside the Arctic Circle that get above that in summer.
I'm loving it. I'm making bales this evening and then rehydrating with amounts of booze.
Making bales? As in of Hey? I did not expect that of you
Play bales or show bales?
The intermittent clouds are a bit of a godsend today.
I'm a twit
I was reared in the country.Originally Posted by Spikey M
Making bales? As in of Hey? I did not expect that of you
Because we're a small area surrounded by the north Atlantic, I'd imagine.
Hitting the 20s is what we'd normally get on a nice day so reaching the high 20s regularly and 30+ in some places is unusual (and horrible). We're not built for this.
Back to absolutely peak 24/25 here today, with a bit of sea breeze. Perfect.
73 square ones
Why were you making them? Bit of cash in hand or do you own a farm you've not mentioned?
I’ve a field now, obviously a small one because there was only 73 on it. I wanted it cut and the brother in law wanted some bales to feed his cattle over the winter so it worked well as nobody needed to pay anyone. I’m absolutely fucking baked though, sprayed my head with factor 50 and it didn’t make a pick of difference. 31° here at the minute.
It’s also very difficult to get a square baler these days apparently. They were all I ever seen as a young fella.
Swish. What made you get a field? Are you setting up your own Barley farm for Giggles Brewery?
It’s at the back of the new gaff, about an acre. I’d thought about the barley, I’d love to do it, but I’ve no means of malting it without getting into big enough spend. So I’ll convert most of it into garden and vegetable plots in time for spring.
I can get brewing grains locally that were grown about 10km away anyway.
You can do round bales sooner after it's been cut is the main reason I would think.
Think it’s just handiness for handballing them around over the winter. Can just fuck one into the shed rather than having to pull bits off with a grape.
True, although you've lost me with 'grape'. I suppose the bigger ones you also don't have to move them at all because you can just pile them up outside and they're fine.
That’s the too long I spent up in Boydy country still in my head. I mean a sprong, though it’s most likely a fork over there in most parts.
I've never heard that term before but assumed that was what it was from the context. I don't spend much time in the company of farmers though.
I was mostly in the sticks in Down and Armagh so it was as country as it gets. Hi.
Temperature has finally dropped off and there's a cool breeze. Scenes.
Yep it’s lovely.
What a word Sprong is, I feel like even without the context I'd have a decent idea of what that was.
I remember when I went on Safari in Kenya in my 20s and decided to rehydrate with booze. I have never slept better in my life. A day in 35 degrees plus and 4 bottles of Tusker later I was out for the count.
I’d 6 bottles of home brew and slept like a baby.
Booked to take the kids to the Zoo tomorrow without checking the weather
Thunderstorms all weekend apparently.
What the fuck?
It's the same here. What in the actual fuck?
It's the British way. For every 4 days of sun, we get 8 weeks of flooding and an asteroid.
You always seem to have class weather over there.
The Last 2 or 3 summers have been outstanding. This year has been pretty poor. Although the rest of the country seems to have done better than the east for some reason.
I had outdoor things to do for three weekends in a row and it pissed with rain every single day, the next weekend was lovely but I had a stomach bug and spent most of it sweating and throwing up. Now I'm better and have more outdoor things to do it's going to fucking rain again.
Just had a fairly epic electrical storm here, along with reasonably (although not damagingly) big hail stones.
I took my duvet out if its cover last week (because why would you need one of those) and have woken up absolutely fucking freezing this morning. Still, it’s not raining as it was supposed to be.
The rain has come here but unfortunately not accompanied by a temperature drop. It's fucking awful.
It's weird, the forecast (which I was completely unaware of until Spikey broke the news of his zoo trip in the rain) was meant to be bucketing down all weekend and while it did rain, that definitely didn't happen.
I'm meant to be playing golf tomorrow (should be hilarious, I'm so bad) so if it could hold off a bit longer that would be useful.
The forecast was completely wrong here too. Had a couple of showers but otherwise was fine all weekend. Shit today though. Cold and grey. It's fucking July.
It looks ok ish here now and the forecast now says almost no chance of rain today, with highs of 24. I'm on annual leave from tomorrow, when it looks like it's pissing it down again. Brilliant.
I think all the rain ended up in London. The thunder and lightning was pretty epic for hours.
Stratford Station looks mental.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ind...e97a1cf7%3famp
It has begun. Thunder, lightning and absolutely bouncing down with rain. Weather app says it's not going to stop until Friday either.
Really wish I'd cut my grass this morning.
I'm a twit
Yorkshire appears to have completely missed this. I've had the thunderstorm warning for days now, yet nothing.
Think I just heard some thunder here.
It's been mental down here, but we've had nothing but some distant rumbles 10 miles to our west. Glad too because those floods and that hail looked brutal. Like something out of Asia / The US.
It's always hard to know there.
You joke but this happened today:
https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/...-40693791.html
The storm had finally arrived.
This weather
26/27c in a few hours. We love global warming
This storm has caught me off guard. Every window (skylights) open in the gaff. That fresh air though.
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