Weather 2016

[Junglist1981]

1 hour ago, Mr.Tease said:

Ha, only in this country could the prospect of a 22 degree C sunny day be considered an extreme test of survival! 

I'm designed from the ground up for grey skies, drizzle and nippy winds.

 

[fur_q]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

But remember, it always seems hotter when you're in a field and it's sunny (as oppose to being on concrete) - not sure what the science is behind it, maybe something to do with the moisture in the air? 

In meteorology temperature figures are that of the ambiance air temperature and are mesured in the shade.  so even when max temps are in the region of 25-27 they can easily top 30 in the midday sun. 

[The Nal]

12 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

It's all looking good now. We're still on the border of a high and a low, but the high is pushing further North. Still all to play for, but Met Office, GFS and Norwegians (http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Pilton~7292387/long.html) all have the unsettled weather ending on Friday. 

Christ thats a wash out. How much rain on Wednesday?! 

[Nobody Interesting]

19 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

It's all looking good now. We're still on the border of a high and a low, but the high is pushing further North. Still all to play for, but Met Office, GFS and Norwegians (http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Pilton~7292387/long.html) all have the unsettled weather ending on Friday. This is a much nicer image than Jamie Vardey:

You might want to look at what the Norway folk have down for Wednesday!

[Stretlow]

5 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

You might want to look at what the Norway folk have down for Wednesday!

1.8mm?  or about an hour?

[Stu H]

Metcheck is looking positively glorious. Which is why I don't trust it!

http://www.metcheck.com/UK/14days.asp?zipcode=Shepton Mallet&locationID=56888&lat=51.2&lon=-2.5&findtype= 

[Mezhyp1]

I'm only really concerned about the weather on Wednesday, it's miserably standing about queueing and setting up in the rain/wet. If it's dry on the Wednesday, I'm not fussed what it does the other days, I've had plenty of good wet festivals and really warm festivals

Edited June 13, 2016 by Mezhyp1

[Nobody Interesting]

8 minutes ago, Stretlow said:

1.8mm?  or about an hour?

Scroll down that page til you get more details for Weds. It needs to change!!

[snorton82]

1 hour ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

I have had a season ticket for Oldham Athletic since I was 5 if you have ever been to Boundary Park you'll know it never gets warm.

 I have learned to deal with Cold, Wet, Sleet, Snow, Cold, Gales, Rain, Drizzle and disappointment.

It starts getting tropical in Manchester. It's Factor 50 anywhere south of Macclesfield.

 

Hahaha I can vouch for that one, the coldest ground I've ever been to, along with Stockport and Huddersfield

[Glastonlocal]

22 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

I'm only really concerned about the weather on Wednesday, it's miserably standing about queueing and setting up in the rain/wet. If it's dry on the Wednesday, I'm not fussed what it does the other days, I've had plenty of good wet festivals and really warm festivals

I don't believe you , man.

 

[koj]

The Weather thread has got me.

Something like last year is fine for me. Leaving Mary J Blige to take shelter in the acoustic tent from the rapidly approaching wall of water was one of best decisions of weekend. I like hot so 2010-style would be a notch up.

As said putting tent up in the rain is a nightmare, anything but that. Did that at my first Glastonbury and everything was still soaked on Monday morning.

A last minute purchase to pacify the weather gods is in order I think.

[ghostdancer1]

2 hours ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

Probably miss most of the acts I want to see and spend 99% of the time in the Glade so I can get some cover.

why can't you just wear a hat and some loose, light clothes that cover you?

[Charm]

4 minutes ago, Glastonlocal said:

I don't believe you , man.

 

That's how I feel about the weather too, dry going in is all I really hope for. 
Charm x

[Wooderson]

Just now, ghostdancer1 said:

why can't you just wear a hat and some loose, light clothes that cover you?

Emm, cuz everyone is different? Similar to Fuzzy, the temperature in 2010 was intolerable for me also.

[Wooderson]

Im with CallyG however, I'll take the cruel heat over a washout of course. If I have a point here its that there is a ceiling on how hot it can get for the fest to remain tolerable. Spending the day dumping water over my head, watching my mates cower underneath animal umbrellas = rubbish.

[mungo57]

4 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Emm, cuz everyone is different? Similar to Fuzzy, the temperature in 2010 was intolerable for me also.

agreed with these 2 posters

even covered up, I was struggling in 2010. Hat, long sleeves, light trousers, TONS of suntan lotion, tons of water and by the Sunday I could barely move. I was exhausted!

[Stu H]

2010 was strange, in hindsight. It was my favourite year but the heat was tough. We were getting to bed at silly-o-clock and then up at 7am as the tents were too hot. Most of us sleeping in the shade, catching what we could.

I had heatstroke on the Saturday, had to spend about 6 hours sipping water and pouring it over my clothes - I was back in the game by late afternoon.

The atmosphere was wonderful, but let's not kid ourselves;  30 degrees for 5 days straight is hard going!

[Wooderson]

2010 was better than 1997, don't get me wrong. But I'd take 2009's weather over it all day long.

[shuttlep]

i'd take last years weather all day long

 

[Nobody Interesting]

Update from the BBC just posted

 

Monday 20 June—Sunday 26 June

Typical British summer weather

There will be a real mix of weather during next week with some warm and sunny weather but also outbreaks of rain and fresher winds. 
At the start of the week, the trough of low pressure bringing rain during Sunday will continue to affect many places on Monday and Tuesday. It will also become warm and humid in the south. Fresher Atlantic air will follow on Wednesday and Thursday with rather cloudy skies and some outbreaks of rain, most persistent and heaviest in the northwest. A ridge of high pressure will again follow from the west late in the week and over the weekend bringing drier, warmer weather once again. The highest temperatures and best of the sunshine will be across England and Wales. If this is the case, it will be good news for the festival goers heading to Glastonbury at the end of the week, an event traditionally linked to heavy rain and lots of mud.

[CaledonianGonzo]

The thing with the wet ones is that affects you 24 hours a day.  Walking home in the dark through knee deep mud at 2am is just draining.

Even in 2010 you only had to deal with the worst of it from about 11am till 5pm

[Stu H]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The thing with the wet ones is that affects you 24 hours a day.  Walking home in the dark through knee deep mud at 2am is just draining.

Even in 2010 you only had to deal with the worst of it from about 11am till 5pm

 

The U2 year, I didn't think the Friday was too bad (drunk, huddled together at the Pyramid). But we tried to get into the Silver Hayes area late on and every step was an effort. I gave up and went to bed. THAT'S when the rain takes it's toll. That horrible sticky mud which is unforgiving in certain parts of the site.

It's a pain not dragging mud into your tent as well.

Last year was fine; the crazy showers on the Fri afternoon and then the persistent drizzle Sun morning which eventually buggered off. I could happily hack that again!

[RichardWaller]

1 hour ago, Stu H said:

Metcheck is looking positively glorious. Which is why I don't trust it!

http://www.metcheck.com/UK/14days.asp?zipcode=Shepton Mallet&locationID=56888&lat=51.2&lon=-2.5&findtype= 

That does look nice but aye, I agree, struggle to trust it.. we can't be so optimistic about these things, how un-British!

[waterfalls212434]

if its wet on the Wednesday seems a small price to pay for glorious weather the rest of the weekend....id take one days rain rather then a full weekend of it!

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 minutes ago, Stu H said:

 

The U2 year, I didn't think the Friday was too bad (drunk, huddled together at the Pyramid). But we tried to get into the Silver Hayes area late on and every step was an effort. I gave up and went to bed. THAT'S when the rain takes it's toll. That horrible sticky mud which is unforgiving in certain parts of the site.

It's a pain not dragging mud into your tent as well.

Post U2 we just wound up in the cabaret tent as we could sit down and stay warm.  2010 was way more conducive to having a late one.