How is the ground on site ? ;-)

[deebeedoobee]

Just now, joeltg said:

You're really upping the game this year Deebee, great work!!

Gotta use my ology somehow.

[fred quimby]

1 hour ago, deebeedoobee said:

 

sticky stick has been given some respite from recent harsh conditions and can now slip into the bottom with ease. 

😳

[blutarsky]

5 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

Who do you think I am? A feckin maths teacher?!!

I was under the impression there was nothing you can’t do. 

[deebeedoobee]

Better? 

[pauladam]

2 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

Better? 

Sneaking in a bit of Grateful Dead guitar tab for good measure 😉

[pilton digger]

9 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

Who do you think I am? A feckin maths teacher?!!

yeh but no but.....

[deebeedoobee]

Just now, pauladam said:

Sneaking in a bit of Grateful Dead guitar tab for good measure 😉

You can never have enough Grateful Dead. 
 

I am actually trying to work you know…….

[deebeedoobee]

1 minute ago, pilton digger said:

yeh but no but.....

Shhhhhhh

[offmytrolley]

22 minutes ago, MetaKate said:

I love how everyone in this thread is trauma bonded from 2016!

2016 was the last year that I went so it's very much in my mind! Along with the first time I went, 2010's 'hotter in Pilton than Athens' year!

[blutarsky]

37 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You have all the requisite data.

26 minutes ago, blutarsky said:

But very little time or inclination... 😇

Why have I allowed you to suck me in Hats? Procrastination is a bastard. 

Here you go, although it lacks the charm of Dee's...

 

[gigpusher]

29 minutes ago, MetaKate said:

I love how everyone in this thread is trauma bonded from 2016!

I did it with a broken toe. I felt like I had trench foot for weeks after. Add in Brexit and the drive in from hell and whilst there is still nowhere else on earth I would rather have been that week it was a miserable time! 

[stuartbert two hats]

I'm going to post in the controversial thread about 2016...

[fightoffyour]

On 4/1/2022 at 10:53 AM, jimmillen said:

We always obsess over the state of the ground & rain in the run-up to the festival. So I thought I’d try & work out how much difference this really makes. 🤓

Here’s some data from Yeovilton weather station - obviously not the festival microclimate, but monthly rainfall should be pretty close. 

First, wet years:

Now dry(ish):

And finally the average of muddy v dry:

So basically, it’s all about what happens in June.

Muddy years have tended to have more rainfall in the preceding months, but it’s the weather around the immediate time of the festival that counts. 

State of the ground may be less significant than we thought! 😂

Sadly though it means we also shouldn’t be too excited that Jan & Feb rainfall so far is well below average…

ETA: If I can be bothered I might have a look at day-by-day data for June, if I can find it. By the looks of it when it rains in June is critical - 2019 for example had an above average rainfall for the month as a whole, but I think it must have been early in the month?

 

Can compare the cumulative rainfalls in previous Junes as this month progresses 

 

1 hour ago, blutarsky said:

Why have I allowed you to suck me in Hats? Procrastination is a bastard. 

Here you go, although it lacks the charm of Dee's...

 

 

 

[deebeedoobee]

2 hours ago, blutarsky said:

Why have I allowed you to suck me in Hats? Procrastination is a bastard. 

Here you go, although it lacks the charm of Dee's...

 

4/10 could do better.

* June starts with a capital J

* no value on the y-axis. Is this mm, cm, m?

* the data over the 7 days is 0, 2, 3, 2, 3, 15 and 0mm. Total 25mm. Yours gives 5

Perhaps you might consider concentrating in class….

[gherkin8r]

2 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

4/10 could do better.

* June starts with a capital J

* no value on the y-axis. Is this mm, cm, m?

* the data over the 7 days is 0, 2, 3, 2, 3, 15 and 0mm. Total 25mm. Yours gives 5

Perhaps you might consider concentrating in class….

Pwnt

[squirrelarmy]

2 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

Perhaps you might consider concentrating in class….

At least he’s not educating future generations. 

[pilton digger]

55 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

 

Can compare the cumulative rainfalls in previous Junes as this month progresses 

 

 

 

why? no correlation or effect.  About as useful as comparing Pilton to Yeovilton.

[yehbutnobut]

3 hours ago, pilton digger said:

yeh but no but.....

You rang? 👋

*sorry, couldn't help myself.

[pilton digger]

14 minutes ago, yehbutnobut said:

You rang? 👋

*sorry, couldn't help myself.

i did use the voice to myself when typing that

[pilton digger]

52 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

At least he’s not educating future generations. 

neither is she

[fightoffyour]

37 minutes ago, pilton digger said:

why? no correlation or effect.  About as useful as comparing Pilton to Yeovilton.

Why bother with anything ay? Also that's the first time I've ever seen the word Yeovilton, such is my haste to look at a graph rather than read words

[blutarsky]

1 hour ago, deebeedoobee said:

4/10 could do better.

* June starts with a capital J

* no value on the y-axis. Is this mm, cm, m?

* the data over the 7 days is 0, 2, 3, 2, 3, 15 and 0mm. Total 25mm. Yours gives 5

Perhaps you might consider concentrating in class….

Fair point re: june/June - just chucked the data into Excel to generate the chart and took little care 

Denoted in the key at the bottom, it's mm. 

Misread the scale on your graph, as it wasn't clear. 

1 hour ago, squirrelarmy said:

At least he’s not educating future generations. 

English, not Maths, thankfully. 

41 minutes ago, pilton digger said:

why? no correlation or effect.  About as useful as comparing Pilton to Yeovilton.

To compare the amount of water that's soaked into the ground in previous years and what the subsequent ground conditions were, presumably? 

[deebeedoobee]

1 hour ago, blutarsky said:

Fair point re: june/June - just chucked the data into Excel to generate the chart and took little care 

Denoted in the key at the bottom, it's mm. 

Misread the scale on your graph, as it wasn't clear. 

 

Fair cop. I shall endeavour to produce a clearer graph tomorrow. 

[deebeedoobee]

Would have been perfect festival weather today. Warm, sunny but with cloud to keep the blue skins happy. Slight breeze to keep the air fresh around the long drops. Dry grass to sit on. Perfect.

[lucyginger]

Hello fellow ground watchers!!! I'm a bit late to the party this year, but here I am! 

Have I missed much? I haven't read through.....