The Weather

[Margaret Elisabeth]

Such great inventiveness. I suppose that is why human beings can live in so many different climates.
I was talking to someone yesterday who tells me the farmers around where he lives have had to leave the tractor at the gate to the field and the people were hand working the crop to get it in. We live in a hilly area and all the lower land is flooded but it will drain quicker than a lot of other places.

 

[Finman]

We live in a hilly area and all the lower land is flooded but it will drain quicker than a lot of other places.

It has not been a problem here. Tractors and harvesting machines go easily in wet soil with their broad tires ..but ....the corns have so much rain water with them that the drying fuel cost more than the value of grains.

If the yields is not quickly dryes up, it starts to ferment. The microbial activity heaths up the grain and spoil it in huge piles. The harvesting was about one month late and there is a dead line to those works. The grains will get sprouts on fields.


When guys drive the load to the dryer station, the top moisture has been 30%. The farmer must pay that he sold the yield there.

Couple years ago the price of wheat was so low that some guys looked better to use grains as fuel.

EU has good support system and farmers will survive to next autumn again.

Farmers are fewer and the rest keep wider and wider fields.

But even small field farmers were obliged to leave some of their yields on fields.

Potato farm 24.7.2012

 

[REDWOOD]

Hello,
The forecasters got it wrong - as usual, it went up to 25C this afternoon - very pleasant!

Or one of these

 

[Finman]

Hi Norton, how is the water stores now in Cyprus. You wrote 3 years ago that vegetation was badly ruined but how do thymes now?

 

[Norton]

The water situation is much better now with above average rainfall last winter and a good start to this one. It's amazing to see how nature can recover from a four year drought. We are just getting the last batch of queens mated - most of them are laying within 12 days of hatching.

 

[Norton]

Details for Monday, December 03/12
Cloudy with occasional showers this afternoon. High around 21C. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Evening: Rain showers this evening with mostly clear conditions overnight. Low 12C. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50%.

The white mustard (Sinapis alba) has started flowering......

 

[Finman]

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Here -15C.

I am in a hurry to go Helsinki. My boy's boat is still in the sea in harbour and ice cap is forming and getting thicker. We draw the boat from sea tonight.
I do not know how difficult it is to break the ice. We will see.
I take a chain saw if we must cut the ice.

A week ago it was +6 temp when boy's family went to Canaria. I could not imagine that winter can come so fast as it did.

"many things would remain undone if you do not have last moments to be used"

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[Finman]

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polyhive allways reminded me that Finnish climate is different than Scottish.
How in heck I can know that.
The Scottish does not even use under pants there. I thought that it was only a rumour.

No I draw insulated thousers to my legs and go out.



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[Hivemaker.]

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My boy's boat is still in the sea in harbour and ice cap is forming and getting thicker. We draw the boat from sea tonight.
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Was the ice thick in the harbour, did you get your sons boat out okay?

 

[Finman]

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We made couple of hours work and got only the boat loosen from ice deck.
Chain saw is one posibility to saw a canal into ice.

 

[Norton]

Details for eastern Cyprus on Thursday, December 06 2012.
Showers early, then partly cloudy for the afternoon. High 21C. SSW winds shifting to NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Evening: Cloudy with occasional showers overnight. Low 13C. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

 

[Finman]

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Temp has been -10 - -15C in Helsinki. Strong wind from north.

Ice cover in the boat harbour is so thick that after couple of days it carries a car.

So we saw the boat from ice and lift the boat directly on trailer. So we pull the trailer over ice to land bank.

The weight of boat is 700 kg + trailer
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This guy made a canal with chain saw into ice 2 years ago. Then truck lifted the boat away from sea.

 

[REDWOOD]

Raining............... in fact I'm going to copy this and paste it every day this winter and I will probably be right

 

[tonybloke]

well, you are in wales
prob a safe bet

 

[mbc]

well, you are in wales
prob a safe bet

I've already written my letter to santa so we're only going to have rain in the evenings in 2013, lovely high pressure and high temps during the days.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

well, you are in wales
prob a safe bet

I say - that's a bit regionist isn't it - i have you know that it was snowing with us early this morning

 

[tonybloke]

I say - that's a bit regionist isn't it - i have you know that it was snowing with us early this morning

"regionist" ! I like the term

 

[dpearce4]

I say - that's a bit regionist isn't it - i have you know that it was snowing with us early this morning

So Frozen rain then.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

So Frozen rain then.

a change is as good as a rest! - pi$$ing down now though

 

[dpearce4]

a change is as good as a rest! - pi$$ing down now though

I prefer Pi$$ ups