The Weather Thread 2023

[FuzzyDunlop]

4 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

Sorry but how can 20 odd degrees be debilitating?! 

It isnt 20 though is it? That's shade temps.

Its a lot hotter in the sun. 

It's debilitating in so far as it completely knackers me out. 

- Tbf I was more talking about 25 in the shade (so a lot hotter than that in the sun). 20 & sunny wouldnt be horrendous.

[Crazyfool01]

chill pills for sale ...... available to all . 6 days out its time to be excited people want different things and thats absolutely fine , we get what we get . but looks like a pretty much best for everyone forecast at this stage 

[Bike_Like_A_Mum]

Please don't take ANY of this thread personally. Its all melodramatic for fun and nobody really cares!! We're going to Glastonbury Festival man!!!! Everyone knows they'll have a good time regardless.

(Well, nobody cares except Fuzzy, they really are going to end up in hospital if it hits 19 but that's just one person out of over 200k so I'm sure we can put in a team effort to lift them to FMS and they'll look after them) 😜😜

It'll all be fine xx

Edited June 15, 2023 by Bike_Like_A_Mum

[stephos83]

BBC just updated:

The rain showers on Saturday is in two hours only with a max chance of 12%.

[FuzzyDunlop]

5 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

An outdoor festival held in British summer time really isn’t the place for you then. 

If we go back through my posts.. I say "Its outdoor, you pay your money - take your chance" if it's hot - tough. If it's Raining. Tough.

 

[The Red Telephone]

I’ve been on this site for over 7 years now and I still have no idea what NFRNFC means.

[Glasto Weatherwatch]

Just now, The Red Telephone said:

I’ve been on this site for over 7 years now and I still have no idea what NFRNFC means.

No f**king rain, no f**king compromise 

 

Word

[StePotts]

Just now, stephos83 said:

BBC just updated:

The rain showers on Saturday is in two hours only with a max chance of 12%.

their whole forecasting system is mental. shows rain every day but only 20-30% chance for an hour most days. how do they work that out as the main weather for that day?

[Trunks1993]

Fuzzy is the human outlier.

My ideal would be 21 and sunny - same as Gala festival this year which superb.

[FuzzyDunlop]

4 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

21-22C is ideal / normal room temperature

Ive had to stay in an apartment.. the lowest the air con goes is to 18. 

Which is puts it at really nice temp for me!

[Jacko45]

Just now, StePotts said:

their whole forecasting system is mental. shows rain every day but only 20-30% chance for an hour most days. how do they work that out as the main weather for that day?

 

I've always thought this LOL

[Trunks1993]

Just now, StePotts said:

their whole forecasting system is mental. shows rain every day but only 20-30% chance for an hour most days. how do they work that out as the main weather for that day?

you'd rather them present the negative and be pleasently surpised.

[Jose Pose]

3 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

If we go back through my posts.. I say "Its outdoor, you pay your money - take your chance" if it's hot - tough. If it's Raining. Tough.

 

But surely you can see the fact that there has been, at the very least, one day of each of the last festivals since 2016 that to you are unbearable or unmanageable is not some sort of weird unexplained phenomenon? They are simply par for the course and to be entirely expected for summer time.

Edited June 15, 2023 by Jose Pose

[StePotts]

Just now, Trunks1993 said:

you'd rather them present the negative and be pleasently surpised.

I guess, but it's not that helpful for planning what to take lol

[Trunks1993]

Just now, StePotts said:

I guess, but it's not that helpful for planning what to take lol

plan for the worse, hope for the best

[Breeze]

7 minutes ago, stephos83 said:

BBC just updated:

The rain showers on Saturday is in two hours only with a max chance of 12%.

I have found BBC massively unreliable since they parted ways with Met Office. I still check both quite often and Met Office much closer to reality IMHO. That said I will take the above, big time!

[BambooShanks]

I am shocked to my core that different people are affected by the weather in different ways.  

 

I feel for Fuzzy, not only does he struggle in the heat and clearly has his preferences for cooler weather, but he's got to justify it on a constant basis.  I don't know what would be more draining tbh.

 

 

 

[Justcalledtosay]

20 minutes ago, Nutella Versace said:

Tempers seem to be getting a bit frayed on here. The only certainty is that we will have weather. The only thing we can do about it is prepare. 

I’d blame that on the heat but I’m fearful it might kick off again..

[Sasperella2]

Metcheck is looking pretty dreamy apart from a blip on wednesday. 

(no clouds though - sorry Fuzzy) 

[stopwn1981]

This thread 

[Jacko45]

Met Office - Showing Rain Tues/Weds but only tops of 30% chance and even then its light showers.

Temperatures should be please mostly everyone. 

[DeanoL]

51 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

I think it’s fine to talk about people’s preferences when they’re completely the opposite of the sort of weather you’d expect for British summer time and by some incredible coincidence, the weather we’ve experienced for every festival since 2016.

Temperatures around 25 are entirely normal and to be expected far more than any other type of weather, hence why shock horror, that’s what we often get, in the summer no less, who’d have thought it?

Average UK high temperature in June is 18C, July is 20C, August 19C.

On average, between 1991 and 2020, the UK saw just 11 days per year with max temp at 25C and above. (https://www.preventionweb.net/news/met-office-review-uks-record-breaking-summer-2022)

I can't find the stats but I suspect we have just as many summer days of heavy rain.

So 25C is abnormally hot. It does happen, but then so do days of heavy rain, they're both just as uncommon.

[Littlechef87]

It looks like we're getting something bang in the middle - not too hot, for the can't bear the heat contingent, but not too cold or wet, for the sun worshippers - so why the f**k is everyone arguing? It's about as fair a compromise as we could hope for (at the moment... still all to play for)

[Joshuwarr]

What's funny is a hint of a sprinkle in the run up feels like the end of the world, yet when you're there I find most of us tend to just stick on a coat and crack on if its just a drizzle. It's really going to be fine and I CANNOT wait.

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

This thread more divisive than any music discussion that's taken place on eFests ever 😆

We're looking at not too hot, not too cold weather. It's as close to perfect for everyone as we're gonna get.