Weather thread 2015

[ghandi]

Awaiting JACKONE's latest missive with some interest.

Is the emptiness an indication that he'll know fuck all?

[The Nal]

At the moment there are only 3 sites I can find that currently forecast rainfall for the whole festival. Eventually that will reach 12+.

With every passing day, we become more and more fucked. Every year.

Awaiting JACKONE's latest missive with some interest.

Could be a while. Hes busy at the moment.

Edited June 5, 2015 by The Nal

[ThomThomDrum]

The Who and the Chems will be bringing their 4 days of constant rain, drizzle and misery. Make your peace with that now and get on with it

The Park is going to be a mess!

Mud fight at the SFA!

[The Nal]

JACKONE just out getting some exercise for the day at the moment. We should expect an accurate forecast soon.

[alframsey]

Nope, not a clue ?

Also I do not understand these graphs and shit, is the outlook good at the moment?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Plea to Pedmills not to let all the people who can't / won't understand the graphs dissuade you from updating them and posting them. Ta x

[briddj]

http://festiweather.com/forecast.asp?EventID=667&event=Glastonbury%20Festival%202015

I'd take that!

Too cold. I've NEVER take that. Has to be into the 20s to be acceptable.

[Untz]

Plea to Pedmills not to let all the people who can't / won't understand the graphs dissuade you from updating them and posting them. Ta x

Agreed. This thread needs all the science and data it can get to counteract all the hysteria (including my own). Lots of love to Pedmills.

[mazola]

I don't understand how 2011 is so low on Pedmills chart, I would have though it was well above 2009 and not far from 2014

[shoptildrop]

As long as it's dry long enough for everyone to get their tents up that will be fine

Forecasts showing it mainly dry at the mo so that will do for me...

[Mr November]

http://festiweather.com/forecast.asp?EventID=667&event=Glastonbury%20Festival%202015

I'd take that!

Too cold. I've NEVER take that. Has to be into the 20s to be acceptable.

Rain on all but 2 days? Sub 20s temperatures? No thanks!

[Untz]

As long as it's dry long enough for everyone to get their tents up that will be fine

Forecasts showing it mainly dry at the mo so that will do for me...

I'd rather have a short shower while I'm putting up the tent than non stop torrential rain Friday to Sunday.

[Mr November]

I'd rather have a short shower while I'm putting up the tent than non stop torrential rain Friday to Sunday.

I wouldn't want the inside of my tent getting wet over anything. I can waterproof up the rest of the time, but not having a dry tent is a nightmare situation.

[Anth32]

That forecast looks good to me, very light rain, dry most of festival. I forecast that the forecasts will improve even more till about ten days from the gates opening then very rapidly go downhill....Still have the time of my life though same as every other year.

[Untz]

I wouldn't want the inside of my tent getting wet over anything. I can waterproof up the rest of the time, but not having a dry tent is a nightmare situation.

Do it faster! I put my inner up first tent in the rain in 2011 and it was ok, but it was only a 4 man dome tent. It will dry up nicely when the sun comes out in the afternoon anyway.

[big__phil]

Do it faster! I put my inner up first tent in the rain in 2011 and it was ok, but it was only a 4 man dome tent. It will dry up nicely when the sun comes out in the afternoon anyway.

Being a lazy person, I tend to not remove the inner from the outer when I pack up my tent after fests. The plus side is that the inner shouldn't get wet when it comes out the bag again!

[benc]

Loving all the positivity in this thread, must be a good sign I remember back in 2010 that 'unsettled' was the forecast until right before the festival, so just shows how much it can change!

Rather it didn't rain Wednesday morning - it's just so makes life so much easier and I'd rather it didn't rain at another other time of the fest just because..

[JoeyT]

For those interested this chap posts quite interesting weather reports and speaks in a language that makes is accessible to everyone:

http://youtu.be/NLUPAslqN7o

[Guest]

For those interested this chap posts quite interesting weather reports and speaks in a language that makes is accessible to everyone:

http://youtu.be/NLUPAslqN7o

Wow - he doesn't stop talking does he. I get the impression breathing is a nuisance to him.

[pedmills]

I don't understand how 2011 is so low on Pedmills chart, I would have though it was well above 2009 and not far from 2014

I totally agree but the two websites I could find that gave historical rainfall amounts for 2011 gave 9mm and 11mm.

Some possible explanations I can think of are:

• 2009's rain was in one big storm whereas 2011 was spread out,
• there was a lot of rain before 2011 so the ground very quickly turned to mud,
• this is rainfall recorded in Yeovilton not Worthy Farm,
• the figures are a complete load of bollocks

[big__phil]

I totally agree but the two websites I could find that gave historical rainfall amounts for 2011 gave 9mm and 11mm.

Some possible explanations I can think of are:

• 2009's rain was in one big storm whereas 2011 was spread out,
• there was a lot of rain before 2011 so the ground very quickly turned to mud,
• this is rainfall recorded in Yeovilton not Worthy Farm,
• the figures are a complete load of bollocks

I remember quite a lot of rain in the queue in 2011, before getting in.

Fun times.

[fur_q]

I don't understand how 2011 is so low on Pedmills chart, I would have though it was well above 2009 and not far from 2014

Most of the mud in 2011 was caused by rain in the weeks before the festival, there were videos posted on here in the weeks before that showed lots of standing water in the lower parts of the site. Although it rained for quite a long time on the Friday it wasn't that heavy and at other points there where only really showers, but all this was falling on already saturated ground, 2009 we only had a couple of short but berry heavy burst of rain which fell on very dry ground.

[ThomThomDrum]

Too cold. I've NEVER take that. Has to be into the 20s to be acceptable.

Nah

Late teens is very much acceptable to me

Early twenties is more desireable

Im talking about temperature here folks...................(dirty feckers!)

[JoeyT]

Is it only me that doesn't really remember years 08,09,11 and 13's weather very well?!

2010 obviously sticks out in my mind as does last year due to the mental storm.

The other years above though I'm very hazy over.

[Homer]

I finally just found myself clicking on this thread for the first time without realising I was doing it - the festival must be close!