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5co77ie, on Aug 20 2009, 01:33 PM, said:

Okay it's screwy - a refresh reveals only a little rain on Friday - refresh again and it's back to apocalyptic! Are metcheck being more random than usual?

I'm going by the Gardener's World forecast...
Bit of rain on Friday, low wind, average temperatures, rising toward Sunday....

[pete01]

The actual weather in Totnes 30 miles south of Escot Park

No rain just a morning dew

50% cloud cover

I can see Blue Skies

Most of all DRY

HAVE A GOOD FESTIVAL

[catsta]

pete01, on Aug 21 2009, 07:38 AM, said:

The actual weather in Totnes 30 miles south of Escot Park

No rain just a morning dew

50% cloud cover

I can see Blue Skies

Most of all DRY

HAVE A GOOD FESTIVAL

Apparently it was shit weather in totters all weekend, we were well lucky :-)

[bradford]

well I agree with you. this is such a wonderful news.
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[strolling wanderer]

bradford, on Mar 12 2010, 06:32 AM, said:

well I agree with you. this is such a wonderful news.
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[William of Walworth]

bradford, on Mar 12 2010, 06:32 AM, said:

well I agree with you. this is such a wonderful news.
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Spamtwats like this should be banned with extreme prejudice.

What kind of idiot bumps a many months old thread to spam some irrelevant shite anyway?

Banning for 'being a patently braindead moron' would be justified reason enough!

[cantwait4glasto]

William of Walworth, on 14 August 2009 - 03:19 PM, said:

Here's yer links folks. Prospects on a bit of a knife-edge so far ... possible at this stage that we'll escape an out and out washout though.

Metcheck for South West (later part of general forecast is for the whople of the UK, but that will get more SW specific the nearer to the time we get).

Metcheck for Exeter (this is a more useful forecast than the 'festival specific' one from Metcheck for 'Beautiful Days', linked to above, because with the Exeter one you get more detail, including for preceding days)

BBC general forecast (BEAR IN MIND though that the general monthly-forecast information for the next 4 weeks dates from the Monday just gone (10th) and will not be updated til next Monday, the 17th).

BBC 4-dayer for Exeter (will become more useful next week!)

Keep checking these links for updates, I have cautious hopes right now that prospects will improve a bit over coming days. Because there's currently some  talk on the technical weather discussion forums (Model Output Discussion thread) at netweather.tv, that we may see improvements, with High Pressure playing a bit more of a role in the South of England.

But as you all know, anything can happen -- still too early to say yet ..... we're guarenteed nothing at this stage, either washout or scorcher.

I'll be more confident after the coming weekend. Back later!

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[Pinhead]

It don't look especially good do it?

[5co77ie]

Accuweather looks more promising - or did yesterday.

[Pinhead]

5co77ie, on 17 August 2010 - 07:58 AM, said:

Accuweather looks more promising - or did yesterday.

What's it been like down there the last week or so?

[5co77ie]

Pinhead, on 17 August 2010 - 11:19 AM, said:

What's it been like down there the last week or so?

It last rained quite heavily early Saturday morning - no rain since despite it being predicted.

[cantwait4glasto]

I think we'll get a few showers but should escape the mud. And def not another 2008.

3 sleeps 

[William of Walworth]

I'm pretty scared about the rain predicted to come in from the SW (worst direction!      ) for Thursday night/early Friday morning.

After that, 'not too bad' seems to sum it up -- some showers, but mainly light/patchy, and not cold, and some possibly warmish sunshine at times as well. Fingers crossed that we don't get to arrive onto a site already inundated into a mudbath -- avoid that on Thurs night/Friday morning, and we'll probably escape the worst.

My links from last year, quoted above, should all still work, check em out as they get updated, those who have more time ...

[Pinhead]

Yeah, that's when I'll be arriving - don't fancy setting up tent in the rain: that really is the worst experience - tent is already wet by the time you've set it up and normally wet inside as well.

[5co77ie]

Still no rain here yet - but skies are darkening up big time at the moment.

[LusciousLucy]

The BBC Weather site (which I have taken to more or less relying on now rather than Metcheck) and its funky map programme that shows the clouds and precipitation predictions for up to 5 days looks to be light rain more or less. Not super nice but no drenchings hopefully.

Sunday doesnt look too pretty though AT the moment.

We can do this. Just pack good waterproofs.

The little tent I am taking has lost most of its waterproofyness but nothing one of those giant space blanket emergency shelters can't sort out pegged to the outside and I plan on attaching some sort of tarp porch too. I cant carry my heavy tent on the train so have to make do.

My biggest worry is the location of Camp Strudders and the fact its at the bottom of the hill though

[FunkyDenz]

LusciousLucy, on 18 August 2010 - 05:00 PM, said:

My biggest worry is the location of Camp Strudders and the fact its at the bottom of the hill though

We'll be fine.











The airbeds can double up as makeshift life-rafts.

[Pinhead]

Shiver - got a new tent for this year - lets see how it copes . . .

[5co77ie]

It's been dark skies all day today but still no rain as yet bar a few drips intermittently - so I doubt the site is muddy.

However it is very windy so make sure you get those guy ropes in properly tomorrow. The wind makes it feel cold but as soon as I put layers on I'm too hot because the temperature is still pretty high.

[William of Walworth]

Just seen a brief line over on Urban75 from 'Sunrarr', onsite, pretty much confirming what Sco77ie said above ... and I've just seen the 6:30 BBC forecast which seems to see Exeter avoiding the worst of the rain tonight and tomorrow -- we'll get some for sure, but maybe not the very worst, which seems to have stayed somewhat further West and North in Cornwall and Devon, and pitched up in Wales too -- it's horrendous here in S Wales and will remain so all night, I think poor old Green Man goers can expect worse conditions than us SE Devon-bound people...