The Weather Thread 2022

[Rubber Soldier]

3 hours ago, Brad2434 said:

That's what we said in 2016

The weather was mostly fine at the actual festival in 2016. Well, mostly dry anyway. It was the downpours the few days before that turned it into the mud bath.  

[Yeo-vile idiot]

A fairly decent sized dust damping down storm rolling north over yeovil for the last hour 

[jonnyisRFC]

Put up with an hour of rain at Slam Dunk

today, that will please the weather gods enough to ensure a dry Glastonbury right?

[paulshane]

1 hour ago, Yeo-vile idiot said:

A fairly decent sized dust damping down storm rolling north over yeovil for the last hour 

it's biblical here in WSM at the moment, a few hours so far of lightning and sheet rain, but I was gardening earlier today and the ground was rock hard, and I expect once I get back at it tomorrow, it'll still be rock hard.

 

Spoke to a buddy who is on site yesterday evening, and it's 'dusty and dry and looking to stay that way' so I am calmed 🙂

[Alvoram]

Still not a drop here in Derbyshire for what feels like an eternity. Ground is rock hard and cracked, grass is needing supplemental water. They've been giving out rain for days, but it just doesn't seem to come, or if it does it misses us. Forecast is for some heavy rain this evening. Let's see if it happens. 

I can see a load of heavy rain on the radar that looks like it's hammering the south east and moving in a north eastern direction, looks like the very edge could hit us or miss us. I actually hope it hits, garden needs it. 

[sedra]

Thunder lightning and rain on south coast tonight 

[joeruss]

Accuweather giving us a good one..

[steviewevie]

41 minutes ago, joeruss said:

Accuweather giving us a good one..

Those temperatures are almost acceptable.

[charlierc]

19 hours ago, JoBalls said:

Yeah at the 2012 jubilee we went down to London to watch the flotilla for my father in law’s birthday and it absolutely pissed it down the entire day, ended up sitting in All Bar One for 4 hours of happy hour so wasn’t a total bust 😂

I watched a clip of that display (admittedly as part of a 2012 comedy show) and it looked like the rain did very much make it a less fun experience than was perhaps aspired when the idea was commissioned. Sacking it off for a long sesh down All Bar One seems like a fair trade-off ha. 

[nikkic]

22 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Those temperatures are almost acceptable.

If you’re not happy with this, I’m not sure Summer festivals are for you my man! 

[kemosabe]

44 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Those temperatures are almost acceptable.

Christ man, how cold do you want it 🤣Maybe snowbombing festival or something like that is for you!

[The Nal]

YR have updated

[gazzared]

Showers leading upto the festival will hopefully prevent all the dust ready for a dry week 🤞 it's all bollocks though this far out

[hodgey123]

6 minutes ago, gazzared said:

Showers leading upto the festival will hopefully prevent all the dust ready for a dry week 🤞 it's all bollocks though this far out

What a forecast!

[AlexOvd]

7 minutes ago, gazzared said:

Showers leading upto the festival will hopefully prevent all the dust ready for a dry week 🤞 it's all bollocks though this far out

This is a bit scary tho. 

[Cooter]

As prefest weather has been it's been worse, at least the temps are decent. A few glimmers of sunshine and slight breeze and I'd say that forecast isn't much to panic about.

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, nikkic said:

If you’re not happy with this, I’m not sure Summer festivals are for you my man! 

me neither tbh

[steviewevie]

43 minutes ago, kemosabe said:

Christ man, how cold do you want it 🤣Maybe snowbombing festival or something like that is for you!

cold enough for long trousers and a big coat.

[joeruss]

15 minutes ago, Cooter said:

As prefest weather has been it's been worse, at least the temps are decent. A few glimmers of sunshine and slight breeze and I'd say that forecast isn't much to panic about.

Agreed. A few days of rain pre festival mixed with dry, sunny days of 18-19c is absolutely fine

[steviewevie]

[The Nal]

So we're looking at a repeat of 2007.

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, The Nal said:

So we're looking at a repeat of 2007.

Wasnt' 2007 dry weather leading up to it and then a months worth during a few hours on the friday night...and that's how you got flooding. With current forecasts looking pretty wet for next few weeks.

[squirrelarmy]

6 minutes ago, The Nal said:

So we're looking at a repeat of 2007.

More like 2016. Rock hard ground with flash flooding getting under the top soil. 

[4AssedMonkey]

Still too early to have much confidence in long range forecasts but I'm starting to concede that it's not looking great at this stage.  😞 

[Joshuwarr]

Let's not forget just how abysmal the forecast was for 2019 about two weeks out. So much can and will change!