Weather

[t8yman]

fuck me. accuweather has 7 hours of rain, and 19mm of the stuff on the sunday. i'm fucking sick of this shite. sunday is the best day for me - watching it from under a poncho is not my idea of fun.

c**ts.

i think its getting a bit close for the forecast to be wildly off the mark.

[the_hedge]

fuck me. accuweather has 7 hours of rain, and 19mm of the stuff on the sunday. i'm fucking sick of this shite. sunday is the best day for me - watching it from under a poncho is not my idea of fun.

c**ts.

i think its getting a bit close for the forecast to be wildly off the mark.

[theramm]

It's far too soon for these forecasts to be accurate. They've predicted rain here all week & we've had a couple of isolated showers at worst. I've no faith they know how much rainfall we'll be getting 10 days in advance.

[AcademicPistol]

On a more positive note the temperatures look decent enough and the forecasted weather on the other days is 'chance' of 0.5mm of rain. Fingers crossed the Sunday isn't as bad as forecasted.

[the_hedge]

It's far too soon for these forecasts to be accurate. They've predicted rain here all week & we've had a couple of isolated showers at worst. I've no faith they know how much rainfall we'll be getting 10 days in advance.

[theramm]

lol....I hope I'm right too!

Seriously though...In 2009 they were predicting torrential rain, John Probyn even went on the DL forums warning people are telling them to bring wellies etc.

I'm yet to see a forecast more than a couple of days in advance that can be close to accurate.

[gard]

Mankini and wellies is the way forward, ready for any weather then!

[luckysalt]

As it stands, think I'll be bringing the wellies just in case!

[cornucopia]

The boots and waterproofs are in the bag! It's not looking good people.

[devilman]

Damn you cornucopia for starting this thread! I have wasted at least half of today checking various forecasts and they are all constantly changing. Word on the street is the one below is what the farmers use as it's the most accurate. I'm happy with that although we are going to get wet at some point aren't we. Last night the forecast was absolutely shocking on all forecasts but it's much better now.

http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/nottingham_east_midlands

I use the Norwegian one mostly these days:

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Donington_Park/long.html

Not so good that!

I like the idea of this one too, especially as it has phone apps on the way:

http://www.latestfestivalweather.com/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/download-festival.html

Wellies will be getting looked out tonight.

[cornucopia]

I'd be happy with the bottom one, a few light spells of rain isn't too bad at all.

Soz by the way Devilman

[Lithium05]

Tricky to predict the weather for the festival anyway, the large concentration of people in the same place tends to make the weather a bit... erratic.

Edit: I'd take what it's saying on Metcheck:

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.asp?zipcode=de742rp&day=3

A bit of light drizzle isn't an issue

Edited June 4, 2012 by Lithium05

[biffoire]

Tricky to predict the weather for the festival anyway, the large concentration of people in the same place tends to make the weather a bit... erratic.

Edit: I'd take what it's saying on Metcheck:

http://www.metcheck....e=de742rp&day=3

A bit of light drizzle isn't an issue

[biffoire]

I trust BBC weather most of all.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2650225 although it's not always that accurate more than 3 days in advance.

[luckysalt]

Thursday looks a shitter on the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6900515

Rain all day. Great. Might not do pub crawl if its that bad!

[luckysalt]

Another thing just went in back garden to fetch in some freshly washed Download clothes, in my tshirt and jeans and DAMN its cold. Don't want it to be this cold this early at Download, I can understand after midnight, but just after 9. No Thanks!

[devilman]

Metcheck is broken. Your link says march and if you do it for today it shows no data at all. I used to like it but the server they use, or the software is most definitely borked and has been for a couple of years.

[biffoire]

Ralphcam has it still looking dry. Nothing worse than 2 weeks of rain to make the festival into a mud pool. (Reading, leeds )

[o0oDrummer]

Yeah it's not looking good now!

[Calzum]

as i live 20 minutes from Donnington, the weather were I am today has been pretty decent today, little bit of rain here and there, but a lot of sunshine, not to cold ether

[the_hedge]

I live in Notts about a 20 min drive away and it's nailing it down. Just had thunder as well......

[the_hedge]

In fact it's just stopped. I have decided that it's now cleared the air making way for brillinat sunshine through to Monday dinner, then it can rain again if it wants

[theramm]

I'm about 40 mins away from Donington & we've had showers on & off all day. The heavens absolutely opened for about 5 minutes but now there's patches of blue sky breaking through.

Keep thinking 2009-esque thoughts.

[t8yman]

have faith, oh faithful ones....

[the_hedge]

It will be by sunny, oh yes it will be sunny.