Good News About the Weather at Last!!!

[Steve_gts]

It looks like things are going to return to normal next week, looks like I may get some honey after all

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18867168

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/17/drier-warmer-weather-more-downpours?newsfeed=true

 

[protheroe]

about time too,this bad weather really has lasted,nice to hear things are finally brightening up

 

[scuttlefish]

I'll believe it when I see the silage cut...

 

[DarynWebb]

I have lost all faith in any summer, this rain seems endless.

 

[scuttlefish]

I'm being curmudgeonly... it's actually been (mostly) dry and warm over here for the past couple of days, if not quite sunny. Fingers crossed the ladies will re-fill those supers they've emptied over the past month!!

 

[E1M]

If it wasn't such a long way to where you live Scuttlefish, I am sure we would all join you!

 

[Sean.]

Excellent, the new queens are due to hatch end of the week. So might be good timing

 

[protheroe]

Excellent, the new queens are due to hatch end of the week. So might be good timing

mine too,so fingers crossed.

 

[Poly Hive]

Farmers busy silaging around Tissington this weekend gone.

Weather peeps seem a bit more optimistic, now where did I leave them empty supers?

PH

 

[REDWOOD]

Don't count the chickens before they hatch, they promised the best summer ever last year

 

[thorn]

It's going to change for the south, but according to Paul the Look North weatherman the north of England will still be cool and wet.

Think I'll move back to Essex. And that's a sure sign of desperation.

 

[Norton]

Yes good news about the weather, it is going to get cooler!:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/temperature/temperature-seasonal-high/20120717

Went To bring back nucs from the mating station this evening, in some of them the bees were all dead from the heat........
It is unbearable.

 

[Ely]

Weathers due to be nice next week. Right when my bees need to be a/s'd. I have a 3rd of a super finished. They could have bloody waited, til next year preferrably. What do I do with a 3rd full super after an a/s?

 

[aberreef]

Weathers due to be nice next week. Right when my bees need to be a/s'd. I have a 3rd of a super finished. They could have bloody waited, til next year preferrably. What do I do with a 3rd full super after an a/s?

Same troubles here The weather's been so poor the bees have been stuck in doors for too long and are like bored kids atm. Did a demaree on another hive last week

Weather improving next week but most of the best forrage is almost over. The bramble has almost finished (had most flowers knocked off by the rain) and there's not much else locally. Some balsam and willowherb along with spatterings of other flowers but not alot left unfortunately

 

[farbee]

I was hoping some things might be a bit late this year due to the weather.

 

[susbees]

I'll believe it when I see the silage cut...

They did have a four day window down here for silage....but no hay in sight...and we need hay. No sign of a chance to cut let alone get the stuff dry. Ah well, maybe back to the double cuts we used to help with in Argyll many moons ago as teens...

 

[mbc]

Yes good news about the weather, it is going to get cooler!:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/temperature/temperature-seasonal-high/20120717

Went To bring back nucs from the mating station this evening, in some of them the bees were all dead from the heat........
It is unbearable.

That sounds too fierce for mating nucs, was there no way they could have been shaded ?

 

[blackcavebees]

Indian summer forecast from 27th July onwards (but in India)

I'll believe it when it comes, still got my wellies on

 

[madasafish]

Well my bees appear to have decided that - if the temperature is above 15C - they will fly in the rain in large numbers ...Mind you we have a huge nectar flow on .

(and my grass is growing like crazy)

 

[george]

Madasafish . Think yourself lucky , I have about 60ha that needs cutting twice a week ! Nightmare yr .

Luckily thr forecast is getting more accurate . This morning at 6.30 both the Met Orifice and the Beeb websites said dry day . So far 0.6mm of rain and its still coming down , so, a lot better than expected !!!!!
I am going to get a pebble and have an Indianapolis style forecasting system .