The Weather Thread 2024

[Jacko45]

4 minutes ago, TheDayman said:

Mind you with all this positivity, I'm still heading to decathlon soon to pick up some additional waterproofs.

 

A tribute to weather Gods.

 

Just waterproof sprayed my walking boots and jacket.

[The Nal]

My waterproofs still consist of a 3 quid poncho I bought on site in 2016 and used for 10 minutes.

 

About to go to its 5th Glasto.

[kalifire]

I just packed a dinghy and armbands. 

[devonhammer]

I just packed waterproof trousers even though I don't wear them when it's raining

[devonhammer]

1 minute ago, The Nal said:

My waterproofs still consist of a 3 quid poncho I bought on site in 2016 and used for 10 minutes.

 

About to go to its 5th Glasto.

How do you cope with the little rain cloud that's always over your head?

[Devo96]

Bought some gaiters… walking boots ready to risk it

[DareToDibble]

My multipack of ponchos has arrived and my uncle has said he will lend me his Sealskinz socks. 

[ibilly99]

35 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

 

It's going to have automatic shading. Covers all bases

Which fails becuse GFL got in the O'Reillys rather than the Stubbs and something unspecfied to do with Melvin  Benn.

[CanWeRest]

BBC forecast is just saying there might be a bit of light rain now and again. No point even taking waterproofs for that, is there?

[Cooter]

1 minute ago, CanWeRest said:

BBC forecast is just saying there might be a bit of light rain now and again. No point even taking waterproofs for that, is there?

BBC talk utter nonsense according to everyone here, but they've actually been pretty consistent all the way through the last few days.

[Avalon_Fields]

Bring a spade! Only hope for water next week is if we start digging…

[gherkin8r]

38 minutes ago, The Nal said:

My waterproofs still consist of a 3 quid poncho I bought on site in 2016 and used for 10 minutes.

 

About to go to its 5th Glasto.

Honestly the amount of people talking about packing for all eventualities really irritates me. Bring your clothes. Make a call last minute for wellies. Buy a poncho on site if it rains. 

[kalifire]

Just now, gherkin8r said:

Honestly the amount of people talking about packing for all eventualities really irritates me. Bring your clothes. Make a call last minute for wellies. Buy a poncho on site if it rains. 

Agreed. If your outfit changes significantly depending on the weather, you’re doing it wrong.

[Trunks1993]

Current forecast is identical to what we got in 2022. Absolute scorcher for opening day. Cools down massively for the weekend. We got so lucky that weekend. Still way too early though  - rollercoaster has only just begun

[devonhammer]

4 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

Honestly the amount of people talking about packing for all eventualities really irritates me. Bring your clothes. Make a call last minute for wellies. Buy a poncho on site if it rains. 

This would be fine in a world without weather gods, but we don't live in that world

[Jacko45]

Too much excitement, I get people want it to be right but theres been so many bad forecasts I can't really believe one good one.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Packing for a sunny one: bring some sunscreen and a hat. Not exactly the Krypton Factor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 22 by CaledonianGonzo

[Mich1268]

3 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

This would be fine in a world without weather gods, but we don't live in that world

Yeah, respect the weather gods. I'm packing for snow forecast. And also heatwave. Sensible

[devonhammer]

7 minutes ago, kalifire said:

Agreed. If your outfit changes significantly depending on the weather, you’re doing it wrong.

Agree with this. All I've ever needed in nearly 30 years is a Buffalo shirt. Hot, cold, wet, dry it does it all.

[Crazyfool01]

I’m tippping between setting up the sprinkler system for the garden and nipping to the shop for a new waterproof … which one wins out ? 

[Sheffield Steve]

Here are the maximum temperatures being modelled by the major models for each day.

 

2 very warm days, then all the models predict a cooldown.  But still very acceptable.

 

GFS / ECM/  GEM / ICON / UKMO

 

Wed: 24 / 26 / 29 / 27 / 26

Thu: 25 / 27 / 26 / 25 / 24

Fri: 21 / 21 / 19 / 18 / 21

Sat: 20 / 21 / 20 / 21 /-

Sun: 20 / 20 / 24 / -/ -

 

Edited June 22 by Sheffield Steve

[TheDayman]

42 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

Honestly the amount of people talking about packing for all eventualities really irritates me. Bring your clothes. Make a call last minute for wellies. Buy a poncho on site if it rains. 

 

Unfortunately packing for us starts this evening as we've a ferry to catch Monday morning... need to prepare for all eventualities

[Jacko45]

16 minutes ago, Sheffield Steve said:

Here are the maximum temperatures being modelled by the major models for each day.

 

2 very warm days, then all the models predict a cooldown.  But still very acceptable.

 

GFS / ECM/  GEM / ICON / UKMO

 

Wed: 24 / 26 / 29 / 27 / 26

Thu: 25 / 27 / 26 / 25 / 24

Fri: 21 / 21 / 19 / 18 / 21

Sat: 20 / 21 / 20 / 21 /-

Sun: 20 / 20 / 24 / -/ -

 

 

20 is plenty if the sun's out, it's 18c and sunny today up norf and it's really warm.

 

Those are great temperatures for traversing site.

[Morris48]

Still some caution for me, even with the more favourable model runs over the last 12 hrs. Models generally don’t handle features that  develop from the continent, very well (like the one across SE England at the weekend in the 06z). Wouldn’t be suprised to see some flip flopping over the next few days with that so get ready for a bit of a roller coaster of emotions.

[The Nal]

1 hour ago, gherkin8r said:

Honestly the amount of people talking about packing for all eventualities really irritates me. Bring your clothes. Make a call last minute for wellies. Buy a poncho on site if it rains. 

 

Peeps leaving their tent when they see 0.1mm of rain forecast