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[Funkfarley]

I thought it said sun with showers....didnt we get showers?

[Langdale Wolf]

danbailey80, on Jun 29 2009, 01:05 PM, said:

yep totally wrong...thankfully..i must remember next year not to waste hours getting emotional at forecasts..

Good man.  Join us and waste months getting emotional instead.

[amfy]

Well other than Friday overnight and morning we did pretty good. All dried up and scorchio by Saturday morning but my favourite was yesterday. It was warm but cloudy and every so often it rained but everyone completely ignored it - it was like denial. No-one put a coat on, or moved - people even carried on sunbathing! It was like we just ignored it til it went away!

[Glastonbury_2011]

The weather was f**king awesome. Better than 2008 by far.

[LRW]

The best bit about the weather this year was that the torrential rain started just as the car pulled off site and onto the main road at 5.30 this morning!!

Perfect.

[windy_miller]

I checked the metcheck forecast on friday morning whilst I was listening to the rain hammering down on my tent, and it said Friday Morning: 0.1mm rain.  They can't even get the current weather right, let alone predict what's going to happen in the future!

[sdaveak47]

I never doubted it would be nice !!

[Alcatraz]

Glastonbury_2011, on Jun 29 2009, 03:22 PM, said:

The weather was f**king awesome. Better than 2008 by far.

I don't think so. The downpour last night probably pushed it just behind

[Glastonbury_2011]

Alcatraz, on Jun 29 2009, 04:58 PM, said:

I don't think so. The downpour last night probably pushed it just behind

We'll have to disagree I suppose. I left on Sunday night and all I can remember was the weather being very hot all the time.

[Alcatraz]

Glastonbury_2011, on Jun 29 2009, 05:00 PM, said:

We'll have to disagree I suppose. I left on Sunday night and all I can remember was the weather being very hot all the time.

I guess when it was hot it was hotter. When it was wet it was wetter

[liquuid_fusion]

danbailey80, on Jun 29 2009, 01:05 PM, said:

yep totally wrong...thankfully..i must remember next year not to waste hours getting emotional at forecasts..

Umm the forecast wasn't actually wrong, at least going on the models and ensembles that were posted a few pages back last tuesday. It basically predicted thundery showers (which we got on thursday and later) and the more persistent showers on friday... it was also right on Saturday and Sunday being hot and sunny, although the rain on Sunday night wasn't accurately predicted.

[Pipine]

i thought we did ok really... it was warm and sunny most of the time and there were only 3 or 4 showers..  alright two of them were thunderstorms but generally I'd say a good year for weather.

[Langdale Wolf]

As was mentioned a few pages back, there hasn't been a totally dry festival since 1995.

Surely - surely - this run has to end soon?  Next year please.

[When Jokers Attack]

The Weather was spot on!

Everytime it was pissing down i was in my tent anyway

[mazola]

I'm afraid i caused the thursday night downpour by leaving my wellies in the boot of my car.

Thursday night watched altern8, then couldn't sleep   , so spent a few hours in Chai Walla's with some of the most random, (but very cool) people you could ever wish to meet (the tripping bloke who couldn't stop saying 'banana cock', some old fella who was convinced he was jesus (with nail scars to match , and a fella who  had a 2 litre bottle of cider that he had collected from discarded cups round the sight.

I then had to all the way to car park E11, in soaking, caked with mud trainers.

When i got there i then spent nearly an hour and a half looking for my car. I nearly cried when i found it

then it took me over an hour to get back in to the site, I actually thought i was going to collapse in the queue to get back through the gates.

got back to the tent just as my mate was getting up ready for a whole new day of fun and exploration.

note to self, do not leave wellies in car next year,

[dirk4danger]

The weather was fantastic. Just enough rain to give those newcomers a taste of the mud but not enough to spoil things at all. The hottest since 03 throughout also!

The forecasts were broadly correct from about a week before the festival. Warm with heavy showers.

I managed to get away with no wellies, no jacket, and only one jumper. No problemo!!

Edited by dirk4danger, 30 June 2009 - 10:12 AM.

[Magma]

Beautiful weather. Showers almost always overnight/morning, managed to be inside for the only really heavy one and the rain on Sunday cooled me down a treat in the heat of the Other Field.

Absolutely glorious sunshine for all the other time!

[Storm_NL]

Weather Forecasts not really within my expected margin for error... but never mind!  It was great weather!

Mostly warm and dry.
Sometimes too hot.

One big downpour... which I was caught in the start of... spanning abour 17 hours, with dry intervals.

Torrential downpour started after midnight on Sunday, so not really part of the festival...  

If the rain had been a little more evenly spaced out over the weekend, it would have been absolutely perfect!  

[Titters]

For what it's worth.

I checked the Met Office's Rainfall forecast on the Wednesday morning.

And it got it bang on.

I know I'm kidding myself - but next year I'm not going to bother trawling through various forecasts until the week of the festival...