Farmers under huge mental strain
“After the month of April, May and June being bad, the July was not better,” says reader Juergen Uhleman.
Malin Head reported a mean temperature of 13.0°C, 1.3°C below its average and its lowest July mean temperature since 1972 (40 years). Most remaining stations reported their coolest July in at least 10 to 24 years.
This report shows, for all stations, more rainfall than average, lower temperature than average, and lower sunshine than average.
http://www.met.ie/climate/monthly_summarys/july12sum.pdf
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Farmers under huge mental strain
“Meanwhile the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) says farmers are under huge mental strain caused by the failure of crops and difficulties cutting silage due to the poor weather.”
http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/news/july-was-one-of-coldest-wettest-months/
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The wet weather in June and July has caused severe difficulties for farmers, particularly in silage-making. It has also forced some farmers to rehouse animals and buy feed at a time when cattle would normally be eating grass.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0726/1224320828325.html
Thanks to Juergen Uhleman for this link
“I’m living 40km west of Dublin,” says Juergen. “I see and feel this bad weather”
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2 continents … Eastern Europe is like Africa. In Romania we have the hottest summer in 50 years, we bake under +40C
It doesn´t matter how much colder it gets on this planet called Earth. NASA & Co will never admit they were wrong from the start, we will keep hearing their stories about “melting ice” til the end of time.
While I do not wish ill to anyone, this could be interpreted as a good thing. If goverments are required to start writing checks to those who are suffering as the result of cold weather, there will have to be some acknowledgement that things are cooling.
@Alex
Weren’t you guys freezing, digging yourselves out of mountains of snow, this winter past?
December 2010 hit us in Ireland like a bucket of ice water. Night time temperatures approached the all-time record low for Ireland of -19C. There were mornings when Belfast was colder than Alert in northern Greenland! Yet the following January and February were fairly average. The winter of 2011-12 was mild. We need a large blocking high in mid Atlantic to produce a feed of northerly or north-easterly winds.
Eastern Europe is hardly a continent and South Africa is suffering through a bitterly cold winter.
@john the 1st > oh yeahhh ! winter was the hardest that even our oldest people saw(last similar winter was in 1954), temps down to -33C and 4-5 meters of snow, spring was cold too, with no flood and now very hot summer. Our temperate-continental climate at it’s best.
We are going from an extreme to another; i can bet on snow in October even in lower land, possible even in Romanian Plain.
Just wait and see
Here in Scotland the weather hasn’t been much better. We are right next to Ireland and our weather is much the same.
Noticed a few weeks ago leaves falling from the trees, I know you get some when it’s windy etc. but now it looks more like the start of Autumn with more and more every day – at the start of August!
Usually the leaves start falling about end of September.
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