The weather thread

[efcfanwirral]

1 hour ago, Alvoram said:

Netweather's forecast for Lowther Castle Thurs - Sunday looks incredible... Beyond what my wildest imaginations were a week ago!!!

 

One tiny shower Thursday... 

 

 

 

 

 

Stick, Stick, Stick...

(Edited to add: It should be noted that this is in stark contrast to the BBC forecast, and I'd still expect rain!!! The Iphone weather app pretty much agrees with Netweather though. 🙂 )

That's mental - are netweather usually accurate? All the others have varying degrees of rain, some still quite bad!

[Donalbain]

3 hours ago, SloopJohnB said:

It’s been dry for the last 3 days so will be better than expected I think….showers heading in from tonight

Will you keep us posted on how bad the rain is today/tomorrow morning please.

[Alvoram]

43 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

That's mental - are netweather usually accurate? All the others have varying degrees of rain, some still quite bad!

Netweather are usually good.

The only one I've seen that is a complete contrast to this is BBC, and can only get Penrith on there. 

iphone is showing a couple of pathetically tiny showers, (mostly over night) all weekend, and that is at Lowther Castle. 

 

 

 

Metoffice is showing around a 30-50% chance of very light showers on Saturday and Sunday. With a 50-60% chance of a moderate shower on Sunday. 

Metcheck is showing a chance of very light showers Saturday and Sunday, (just 0.2 to 0.5mm) With Thursday (after gates) and Friday being pretty much dry. 

There's definitely not the apocalyptic forecasts that there were this time last week. 

 

Edited July 26, 2023 by Alvoram

[Donalbain]

6 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

Netweather are usually good.

The only one I've seen that is a complete contrast to this is BBC, and can only get Penrith on there. 

iphone is showing a couple of pathetically tiny showers, (mostly over night) all weekend, and that is at Lowther Castle. 

 

 

 

Metoffice is showing around a 30-50% chance of very light showers on Saturday and Sunday. With a 50-60% chance of a moderate shower on Sunday. 

Metcheck is showing a chance of very light showers Saturday and Sunday, (just 0.2 to 0.5mm) With Thursday (after gates) and Friday being pretty much dry. 

There's definitely not the apocalyptic forecasts that there were this time last week. 

 

Sunday not looking the greatest like, but rather Sunday then the Friday. 

[Alvoram]

4 hours ago, Donalbain said:

Sunday not looking the greatest like, but rather Sunday then the Friday. 

Yeh, considering the low that is going to be sitting over us, one and a half centimeters of rain over 4 hours is nothing really... A fine drizzle. 

I just prey this all holds true now, after getting our hopes up!!!

[SloopJohnB]

I hope everyone got off the fields ok….I left Emperors last night, got stuck and thankfully had to friends with me to give me a push…..no sign of anyone pulling people off 😡

[Alvoram]

On 7/31/2023 at 12:33 PM, SloopJohnB said:

I hope everyone got off the fields ok….I left Emperors last night, got stuck and thankfully had to friends with me to give me a push…..no sign of anyone pulling people off 😡

They'd asked people not to leave Sunday, and stay until 7am Monday for that reason, unfortunately if you don't follow their socials it wasn't well communicated around the arena from what I could see. 

https://twitter.com/KendalCalling/status/1685792120873922560?s=20 

[Donalbain]

Can Any weather experts tell us what the early forecasts are saying and weather wellies will be needed.

[Alvoram]

I'm no expert, but it's Kendal Calling... Take wellies, walking boots and trainers... You'll probably need them all at different points throughout the weekend. 😂

At the moment, the weather is actually looking decent for KC!!! Chance of some rain here and there. GFS is showing rain early hours of Saturday morning, and again Sunday afternoon / evening. But is a totally dry KC even possible? 

There's a thunderstorm warning, covering much of England for Thursday. At the moment it just misses the Lake District. But perhaps best to make sure those pegs are in well, just in case. 😉 

Also there's 30mph gusts forecast for Friday, which is nothing too serious, but some tents will struggle, especially as it'll likely be worse on exposed hills. Last year, along the tree line, top of the hill in Quiet Camping (North Haye Parks,) we didn't even realise it had been windy... Until we walked through Family Camping and saw all the tents that had fallen victim to some wind, and were flattened.