The Weather Thread 2022

[Glasto Weatherwatch]

Just now, jparx said:

Yeah that's what I mean, the dry build up is key!

Good example of both scenarios last time McCartney played in 04.

Terrible Tuesday and Wednesday, quite a lot of mud. Weds evening into Thursday was windy and sunny, dried very quickly. Friday a scorcher. Then rain Friday night into Saturday lunch turned it into a mess again as much of the grass had gone on the Wednesday. 

[Glasto Weatherwatch]

In other news this 06z run is absolutely *chefs kiss*

[squirrelarmy]

Interesting point about the grass. Has there ever been a 3 year break before? The grass has to be well rooted now. 

[Henrik]

Yeah cracking run.

Will be far too hot for some, but you can't please everyone. 

[maelzoid]

1 minute ago, squirrelarmy said:

Interesting point about the grass. Has there ever been a 3 year break before? The grass has to be well rooted now. 

Not since the 70s.

Longest gap since 1979 has been 1 year.

[PolygonWindow]

My take:

leading up:

sunday - don’t care

mon - don’t care

tue - just be dry to sort most of the ground out

 Wed - essential to be dry when we get there so we don’t get soaked and have to set up the tent in torrential rain

thur - stay dry

fri - stay dry

sat - stay dry (if rain sat into sun night don’t care)

sun - don’t care, we go home the nxt day

Edited June 13, 2022 by PolygonWindow

[Leyrulion]

1 minute ago, squirrelarmy said:

Interesting point about the grass. Has there ever been a 3 year break before? The grass has to be well rooted now. 

Some of the fields are used for crops, it's not just all grazing apparently so the fields will have been turned over relatively recently.

[joeruss]

9 minutes ago, waterfalls21234 said:

Thing a lot of people forget is it matters just as much if its a dry or wet runup......as its when the ground is already saturated and then it rains again that it cant soak in and then the site turns into a mudbath pretty quick aka 2016.....im in the south a couple countys over and its predicted bone dry here all week at the mo....so heres hoping that part of things stays the same

2016 it had rained heavily for weeks beforehand though.. there was a video of them setting up site and it was a bog

[jparx]

I'll take heat but dry conditions all day long. Lower 20s is obviously ideal but if it's really hot, just gotta load up on water and keep a hat with you. After going to Mad Cool and watching The National in 40 degree weather, I feel I can tackle about anything heat wise 😂

[CaledonianGonzo]

27 minutes ago, The Nal said:

For reference - June 13th 2016

Weather looking laaaarvely apparently.

  

Completely disregard it until this weekend at the earliest. Its all a load of bollocks.

Amazing scenes. 6 years ago today, @FuzzyDunlop worrying about the heat and me telling him to wear a hat and drink some water.

[Aragorn]

30 minutes ago, Havors said:

Met office disagrees... but they probably just not updated yet. They got it cracking the flags no clouds on sunday in Pilton. 

Met office uses different models to the BBC and GFS.  Its why Met Office and BBC dont always agree even at short range 

[steviewevie]

30 minutes ago, Glasto Weatherwatch said:

2005 - it was the Sunday before the festival when the prospect of one band on heavy rain started to appear. Then on Friday morning a month's worth of rain fell in an hour.

 

yeah...remember it well...and I was being like all doom and gloom as I like to do with my mates saying we're going to need a boat...and lo and behold we needed a boat.

[Alvoram]

10 minutes ago, Glasto Weatherwatch said:

In other news this 06z run is absolutely *chefs kiss*

Yep, I'd absolutely love it if this was the forecast... Even the rain on Sunday night / Monday Morning doesn't bother me. 

Edited June 13, 2022 by Alvoram

[briddj]

The festival itself.

FRIDAY

Still completely dry, temperatures of 23

 

SATURDAY

Still completely dry, temperatures of 21

 

SUNDAY

Still completely dry, temperatures of 26

Pressure starts to drop off from Thursday into Friday, but then builds back up into Sunday.

 

 

 

SUMMARY

A lot more rain in this run this weekend, but then a completely dry festival and with the temperatures any damage to the ground will fix very quickly.

So not all good, but the festival itself would be beautiful.

[steviewevie]

32 minutes ago, briddj said:

WEDNESDAY - GATES OPEN

It's been totally dry since the weekend rain, enabling the site to recover with temperatures of 20.

Dry for gates open and 18.

 

The good news is the high has built through the days.

oh no, too hot, where's those lovely lows.

[JoeyT]

[gherkin8r]

25 minutes ago, briddj said:

First two days of the festival.

WEDNESDAY

Dry with temperatures of 23.

THURSDAY

Dry with temperatures of 25. Warming up!

 

Hugh pressure continues to take control.

 

What stage is Hugh Pressure on? 

[Avalon_Fields]

My scientific forecast, guaranteed as good as 50% of them. 

Hello sunshine (With a little rain...)

 

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, briddj said:

The festival itself.

FRIDAY

Still completely dry, temperatures of 23

 

SATURDAY

Still completely dry, temperatures of 21

 

SUNDAY

Still completely dry, temperatures of 26

Pressure starts to drop off from Thursday into Friday, but then builds back up into Sunday.

 

 

 

SUMMARY

A lot more rain in this run this weekend, but then a completely dry festival and with the temperatures any damage to the ground will fix very quickly.

So not all good, but the festival itself would be beautiful.

yeah, that looks kind of perfect...maybe a bit warm. 🙂

And we don't know where and how much of that rain is going to fall on Sunday...and if no more rain between then and wednesday any mud should have dried out.

[NickM45]

5 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

What stage is Hugh Pressure on? 

The all new Weather Stage - next to GOS

[steviewevie]

10 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

My scientific forecast, guaranteed as good as 50% of them. 

Hello sunshine (With a little rain...)

 

 

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

 

You get the idea.

I'll stop now.

[AlexOvd]

16 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

When we will get a mudbath this page will be mentioned when everything would look good at this stage for 2023 weather 😂 "Do you remind how good we thought was going to be 2022?"

[stopwn1981]

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