The month of May has very wet to date with farmers in parts of the country having to deal with rainfall amounts almost 500% of normal.

Met Eireann’s latest update on the weather so far this month confirms that the initial days of may has seen large amounts of rainfall across much of the country.

The month has brought well above average rainfall amounts in all areas with almost 500% of average in parts of the south east.

This has had an obvious knock on impact on soil moisture deficits.

With all that rainfall, many soils are saturated and there will be only a slight improvement over the coming week, according to Met Eireann.

The wet conditions has seen grazing conditions decrease substantially on many farms.

Soil temperatures have improved however, according to Met Eireann and are now ranging from 10 to 12 degrees.