Weather thread 2015

[Swine_Glasto2014]

I've been in 2011,13,14. And quite honestly, altered were fine. I must of been more drunk than i thought.

This year will be easy

[Koroviev]

Some crazy people here wanting a mud bath festival over a little bit of heat!

 

Problem I have with wet festivals is not that I can't deal with them or they're not 'fine', it's just a dry one is infinitely better. As covered above, being able to lounge around on the grass is a godsend. 

Edited June 18, 2015 by Koroviev

[st dan]

Potential positive of all this ... The shit weather we're going to get this year will make getting tickets easier next year folks!

[TheNewUnion]

Also if it is a complete wash out this might be the last time I bother with an festival in Northern Europe

Yeah, I feel the same way sometimes.

[Untz]

Well at least it's going to be coldish. Last year was too warm to wear my waterproof coat. This year I can wear it 24/7 feeling happy I'm not sweating to death. And the sweat from my wellies will keep my feet warm! Good times all round.

 

This predicted wet weather is my mother's fault for buying me ponchos for Christmas. 

[Pbird81]

BBC Weather still looking good enough (for me)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640282

[BambooShanks]

In my ever shifting compromise with the weather I now don't mind it raining as long as it only occurs between 7am and 11am.

[Guest]

So Jackone's forecast has gone from promising to potential mudbath in a day or so. Maybe he ought to spend less time poring over his charts and then he might have seen ex tropical storm Bill w*nking at us from outside the window.  

 

It's going to be welly sucking hell next week.

Edited June 18, 2015 by Ommadawn

[frostypaw]

Fuck me you lot are a bit black and white aren't you

Ach well. If it thins demand I can't really complain.

11th on the trot, never faltered. Only true crap one was '07 and I reckon that would have been just fine without t'evil ex drama

Still don't reckon it's looking like what I'd call a washout, just a standard issue mudfest at points with a chance it'll recover by the time we gotta drive out - totally passable

[Untz]

In my ever shifting compromise with the weather I now don't mind it raining as long as it only occurs between 7am and 11am.

 

I prefer your approach to the "better rains at night" nonsense from other people. More people are awake between 12-4 than 6-11.

Edited June 18, 2015 by Untz

[Untz]

Still don't reckon it's looking like what I'd call a washout, just a standard issue mudfest at points with a chance it'll recover by the time we gotta drive out - totally passable

 

The weather/ground condition will be good for when we leave? Sounds great. Can't wait to be getting sunburn in the coach queue after getting soaked during the weekend, which has happened more than once already.

 

But seriously, you know we love our hysteria in here.

[andymk]

7.0 on the scale. It's not looking good.

 

better than some of the 'the end of the world is nigh' posts we've been having here this evening. Jackone always thinks the mud is going to be worse than it is, I even think he was calling 2010 a 3 or 4 a couple of days before...

 

That friday is brutal - ".... with current estimates suggesting over half an inch of rain possible...."

we had 22mm of rain last year on the Saturday which is nigh on an inch, half an inch sounds a lot but isn't really a great deal

 

At this point, I'll take that. 8mm on Sunday isn't that bad, right?

 

8mm is fine on the last day as we all go home the next day, though The Who and The Chems together is just angering the weather gods again

I'm 100% blaming The Chemical Brothers and the Who on all this!

This is Foster in The Accused fucked!!!

^this, other than The Accused bit, until Sunday night at least...

[Guest]

I'm going around to see Auntie Fanny tomorrow afternoon. I'll check her seaweed whilst I'm there. It's been spot on over the last few years.

[waynewdk]

better than some of the 'the end of the world is nigh' posts we've been having here this evening. Jackone always thinks the mud is going to be worse than it is, I even think he was calling 2010 a 3 or 4 a couple of days before...

we had 22mm of rain last year on the Saturday which is nigh on an inch, half an inch sounds a lot but isn't really a great deal

8mm is fine on the last day as we all go home the next day, though The Who and The Chems together is just angering the weather gods again

^this, other than The Accused bit, until Sunday night at least...

weather report for this year is only showing about 12mm in total from tues-sun

[jonnyisRFC]

The only site i have confidence in is BBC and they're still saying cloudy with no rain, I'm remaining positive...

[stopwn1981]

The 18 GFS run has less 'green' low pressure on us - improvement!!! It's still all up for grabs!

[rivalschools.price]

Potential positive of all this ... The shit weather we're going to get this year will make getting tickets easier next year folks!

Yeah, I reckon it will take 31 mins to sell out instead of 26 mins.

[JBarbour]

All seems doom and gloom in here. The forecast will change at least another 4 times before the festival.

Unpredictable seems the theme this year. There must of been 3 mudbath articles and 3 heatwave articles in the past 24 hours

[nickkkw]

The 18 GFS run has less 'green' low pressure on us - improvement!!! It's still all up for grabs!

 

Just watching that roll out too.  Does look nicer than earlier!   Monday looks heavier (fine with that), but Tuesday, Weds and Thursday seem dry and Friday looking a lot better than it was earlier.  

[GlastoSimon]

This time last year Jackone's outlook was looking positive, let's put it that way.

 

It's v. inconsistent this year, so hopefully it changes for the better...

[Mezhyp1]

Everyone should reference willutalk photos in the new thread about farm shots, what an absolutely stunning night, if we got anything like that it would be heavenly

[frostypaw]

The weather/ground condition will be good for when we leave? Sounds great. Can't wait to be getting sunburn in the coach queue after getting soaked during the weekend, which has happened more than once already.

 

But seriously, you know we love our hysteria in here.

Haha I've done one quagmire drive out in '07 - really don't wanna be doing that in my new field-inappropriate car

Dry in, dry out - rest who cares frankly, that's just clothing and spirit - but packing down wet kit in the wet and a muddy way out is horrendous experience

[donshakey]

I've had to test my party supplies to calm myself down. Now I'm in all sorts of trouble.

[nickkkw]

J10 has just given an update based on tonights improved readings;

 

"Certainly possible and while the pattern seems set, details may change as an quick example.

 

Tonight's GFS 18Hz run continues with the theme of heavy rain on Monday, But on Wednesday it looks much drier, and Friday has moderate rain rather than heavy rain.

 

This would mean much less rain overall and as such less mud, and more time for the site to dry out.

 

There will still be ups and downs, hopefully there will be more ups in the coming days."

[Migraine]

Presuming that the Hz is hertz how do the different hertz runs differ?