Weekly RTE Farmingcast/BBC Countryfile Discussion

[Liam]

The Farming Forecast has a HP cell to the NW for the week maintaining an Easterly so getting progressively colder with showers turning wintry in the North and East , no real specifics , so a safe forecast from Gerry , the charts show some potential for the end of the coming week though.

[pad199207]

ended up missing it

[Liam]

ended up missing it

You missed nothing Pad .

[Damo]

Thought it would be Liam.

[Liam]

An interesting farming forecast there from Gerry Murphy , he has a cold low sitting on top of the country for most of next week so snow for the mountains and wintry showers for the rest of us esp around mid week , a frosty week .
Charts looked very interesting from wed onwards , could be a few surprises yet .

an interesting chap is Gerry ...
http://www.rte.ie/weather/presenters/murphyg.html

[Snowbie]

A risk of snow again this week from Ev there on the farming forecast. Although the UK is a certainty for snow on the northern edge of the front on Tuesday, the front may skirt the south and east coast with snow inland (winds will be maritime due east so coasts will have a low risk)
 
However this is only a risk and it may of course miss us completly. So we keep you upto date here on the IWN.

Air temp avg 1C
Soil temps of 3C so no grass growth this week.

[Danno]

After Wednesday we'll see spring returning according to the RTE Week Ahead forecast. SE Airflow from Thursday onwards, up to 14c widely by Friday.

[Danno]

Anyone catch either of these today? Just missed the RTE by a few minutes, and the BBC does not seem to be on due to sports.

[Snowbie]

To sum it up,

Monday, very mild and mostly dry
Tuesday, rain for the west dry further east and still mild,
Wednesday, widespread rain
Thursday, winds from the west and showery
Friday winds now NW to N, cool and showery
Weekend, cool and showery with overnight frosts.

[Damo]

Thanks Karl.

Hope Friday and weekend prediction changes.

No more frost please.

[Danno]

Cheers Snowbie, does not look great for putting up the mast on Wednesday then. I wonder can I fast track it to tomorrow. 

[Liam]

Jean presented the forecast today , she was wearin ..... oh am yes the weather think she mentioned a shower or something ,  i forget 

[Damo]

Jean presented the forecast today , she was wearin ..... oh am yes the weather think she mentioned a shower or something ,  i forget 

lol. 

[Danno]

BBC are giving a mostly overcast week with some drizzle at times for the northern half of Ireland. Friday looks like some persistant rain in NI.

They declined to go any further than Friday on the charts, but it seems a high pressure cell will drift down off the N Atlantic and it could be a sunny BH Weekend... a bit to go yet, but after a cloudy damp Friday, it might just freshen up with sunshine.

[Liam]

An excellent presentation from Evelyn on the Farming Forecast , she went into great detail , even covering the period 1st Jan to 1st July  , will post up a link when it's available .