Is anyone else scared that it is gonna absolutely piss it down this year?

[Franky]

Heretics!!! 
 

Hush your gums, there will be no rain! 
 

2010 All over again. Woohoo 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

2 hours ago, Superscally said:

My mate said he'd drink a pint of his own piss to guarantee a dry one.

 

I don't know for sure but I reckon one of your mate's pints of piss will be the real deal when it comes to high ABV levels. So, you can count me in for a pint, and I aint even going. I'd suck piss off a thistle me, as long as it had a high ABV. 

[Someoni]

2017 weather please. 

 

If its warm and dry I expect everyone to be walking around telling folk " I drank a pint of piss for this weather" 

 

Zero context

[stuie]

17 minutes ago, Someoni said:

If its warm and dry I expect everyone to be walking around telling folk " I drank a pint of piss for this weather" 

 

can we get this on a t-shirt from the efestivals shop? 

[Neil]

4 hours ago, stuie said:

We must stay positive. 

cos you are a weather bgod that can influence the weather.

[waltere]

1 hour ago, Someoni said:

2017 weather please. 

Thursday-Sunday absolutely, but that Wednesday was one of the most uncomfortably hot and humid days I've ever experienced anywhere

[stuie]

34 minutes ago, Neil said:

cos you are a weather bgod that can influence the weather.

yes, that's exactly what I said ffs I'm the weather god... don't start Neil 🙄

[Someoni]

5 hours ago, waltere said:

Thursday-Sunday absolutely, but that Wednesday was one of the most uncomfortably hot and humid days I've ever experienced anywhere

I was retreating to the CV fields under the tree to chill out. I saw some people with major sunburn that day though 

[Superscally]

9 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

I don't know for sure but I reckon one of your mate's pints of piss will be the real deal when it comes to high ABV levels. So, you can count me in for a pint, and I aint even going. I'd suck piss off a thistle me, as long as it had a high ABV. 

🤣🤣🤣

[steviewevie]

I got a ticket so a mudbath is inevitable I'm afraid.

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

I got a ticket so a mudbath is inevitable I'm afraid.

Fancy a pint?

[henry bear]

There's an air of Russian roulette to this. Someone's going to get the bullet eventually

[CaledonianGonzo]

Is this the longest run without a muddy one?

[charlierc]

16 minutes ago, henry bear said:

There's an air of Russian roulette to this. Someone's going to get the bullet eventually

Imagine if the weekend that would be the one with heavy rain is the next fallow year.

[Spindles]

15 hours ago, Neil said:

Even if it does it won't be as muddy as som other years cos there's been a bit less rain this winter to waterlog the ground.

And even then a wet winter is no guarantee.  Last year we had a mild, damp winter and a long, wet and cooler spring and early summer.  All the signs were that it could be a wet one and somehow the 5 best days of the summer fell at just the right moment and the only evidence it could have gone to sh*t was the insane amount of woodchip that turned West Holts into a dirty brown pile of ankle twisting mini logs.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Last two years we've been exceptionally lucky. Pretty much the only weekends that weren't a wash-out both summers.

[Spindles]

10 hours ago, waltere said:

Thursday-Sunday absolutely, but that Wednesday was one of the most uncomfortably hot and humid days I've ever experienced anywhere

We rocked up about 4pm on the Wednesday.  Pitching my tent in that heat was no laughing matter.  I literally had to strip wash and change my clothes after because I was so drenched with sweat my clothes were dripping afterwards.  Thankfully half an hour draped over my tent and they were bone dry again.

 

I loved 2017 weather, the mist coming in on the Wednesday night after the fireworks made the site look magnificent in the night, coloured swathes of lit mist everywhere.  Every morning some mist and a light shower so thin it barely counted as rain, so you could get a bit of a lie in, every afternoon glorious sunshine without being 7000 degrees centigrade and no shade.  Probably my favourite year for the weather (although 2022 and 2024 put in a good show)

Edited yesterday at 11:05 AM by Spindles

[kalifire]

16 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Last two years we've been exceptionally lucky. Pretty much the only weekends that weren't a wash-out both summers.

This. If G24 was either the weekend before or after, it’d have been chaos. We’ve just got to hang on for one more year, then in 2026 it can absolutely piss it down.

Edited yesterday at 11:21 AM by kalifire

[CanWeRest]

I'm not scared of rain. I'm surprised someone would admit to that 😉 

[Nobody Interesting]

The day I start worrying about the weather is the day I stop attending Glastonbury Festival.

[dvbsh]

Yup, very much but oh well, nothing I can do about it. Prepare differently a bit closer to the time I guess.

[GhostOfMaurice]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Is this the longest run without a muddy one?

 

The worry is the new crowd hasn't experienced the full force of a wet Glasto. Like a country's army when they haven't had a war for a few generations. Anything could happen 🤣

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, Spindles said:

And even then a wet winter is no guarantee.  Last year we had a mild, damp winter and a long, wet and cooler spring and early summer.  All the signs were that it could be a wet one and somehow the 5 best days of the summer fell at just the right moment and the only evidence it could have gone to sh*t was the insane amount of woodchip that turned West Holts into a dirty brown pile of ankle twisting mini logs.

West Holts was ruined this year. Bet the traders there were really f**ked off

[Spindles]

Yeah.  I mean, I get it.  From the glade to the SE corner is worst affected by mud, water drains down into there when it's wet and it's the last place with puddles before the place dries up every time. 

 

I remember seeing Rolf Harris (eek!) in 2009 after it had f**ked it down all morning and it was like an inland sea, thick mud and a couple of inches or more of standing water covering about 1/3 of the standing space at the front right of the stage into the t&c field.  

[efcfanwirral]

1 hour ago, GhostOfMaurice said:

 

The worry is the new crowd hasn't experienced the full force of a wet Glasto. Like a country's army when they haven't had a war for a few generations. Anything could happen 🤣

You joke but I don't think they could handle it, and I reckon health and safety has (probably rightly) tightened up on what's acceptable conditions in the last 9 years. Next wet one could be interesting. If 2016 happened now, I reckon there's a chance they'd cancel it