Is it possible to predict the weather?

[punkincowcat]

Rockness looks like its become a total wash out, is there hope for a dry glastonbury? I guess the key is all in the preperation but is there any way to predict the weather this far in advance?

[Spuddy]

Rockness looks like its become a total wash out, is there hope for a dry glastonbury? I guess the key is all in the preperation but is there any way to predict the weather this far in advance?

[staggerlee]

In temperate and stable countries it is. In Britain the weather is famously varied so it is very difficult

[Sam Crawley]

Basically the UK sits in between four different weather systems. Any one of these is reasonably easy to predict. The boundary between all four? Nightmare.

What this equates to is % confidences regarding their prediction. So the forecast for now (with the exception of the BBC site, haha) is 100%. For tomorrow, maybe 70%. 3 days.. 40% , (I'm making these numbers up), 5 days.. 20% and beyond 5 days is pure and utter speculation. So the short answer is..

No.

And here's all the weather forecasting you ever need in one simple site: http://Will It Rain Tomorrow.com/

(On a similar theme: http://goingtorain.com/)

Edited June 13, 2009 by Sam Crawley

[lynseyselvey]

Rockness looks like its become a total wash out, is there hope for a dry glastonbury? I guess the key is all in the preperation but is there any way to predict the weather this far in advance?

[halfpint]

According to met check kendal is going to have sleet tommorow night!?!??!?!?! Now i know the lake district weather is a bit random but that is a bit too random for my liking!

[redmosquito]

My parents are in Kendal so I'll ask them to look out the window today and keep an eye out for the sleet!

Weather does seem to be totally random, on Friday the BBC website was saying that in Leeds we'll have rain over the weekend when we actually had baking sunshine on both days!

I'd say anythign morer than 5 days ahead could be way off and anything inside the 5 days is still subject to massive changes.

However, we all know its going to be a sunny weekend over Glastonbury so this thread is pointless!!

[HurrahBrother]

its looking ok so far!

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/event_...asp?eventID=559

Edited June 16, 2009 by HurrahBrother