Weather 2016

[FuzzyDunlop]

This year,

Mud = No problem

Sunburn = Problems.

I can cope in the rain. My nose is still peeling from burning.

Edited June 29, 2016 by FuzzyDunlop

[Lubic]

Yeah I never usually burn in this country, but my face was looking pretty red by saturday night. It was that Wolf Alice/Madness combo that did it!

[musky]

21 minutes ago, fur_q said:

For RAF Yeovilton (the closest weather station) 

Wed  : 5.6mm

Thu : 0mm

Fri : 12mm

Sat : <0.1mm

Sun : 0.8mm

*days = 6:00-5:59

 

Cheers!

If that held good for the festival site there was about 5mm more than the mean rainfall that had been predicted on the Tuesday but massively less than the worst case scenario.

[Jugtanion]

1 hour ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

This year,

Mud = No problem

Sunburn = Problems.

I can cope in the rain. My nose is still peeling from burning.

Mine too, I've been slapping on the moisturiser since I got back

[alibear]

10 hours ago, musky said:

Cheers!

If that held good for the festival site there was about 5mm more than the mean rainfall that had been predicted on the Tuesday but massively less than the worst case scenario.

Just wondering if the Friday figure includes the deluge that fell in the early hours of Saturday morning? I'm thinking maybe not, considering what fell at about 8.30am was far more than <0.1mm! And from what I saw on the radar (pictured a few pages back) That rain formed such a thin strip which passed horizontally directly overhead, it probably didn't register in Yeovil... Total was maybe more like 23-24mm (as a complete and utter guess!)

[uscore]

Does climate change mean that we are likely to have wetter Junes in the future?

[Nobody Interesting]

We were very lucky.

The rainbow we had over the site was due to the 25 mm of rain dumped in the next valley - and we got none of that.

Also, on the Friday two huge storms passed very close by and just missed the site so again very lucky.

Add to that the forecast of very heavy rain from Sunday afternoon and we really did get lucky.

It could have been so much worse and thankfully I remembered to cover myself in factor 30 every morning so have a nice suntan and no burnt bits.

[fur_q]

As stated I ran the query splitting days at 6am BST so the Friday total would have included the rain that fell in the early hours of Saturday morning. It started at 4:45 (I know this as I have a text from a friend still on my phone saying they where going to bed because it was raining). I left the venue I was in at about 5 and walked back in the rain and it seemed to have stopped by the time I went to sleep at 6:30

[fur_q]

3 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

We were very lucky.

The rainbow we had over the site was due to the 25 mm of rain dumped in the next valley - and we got none of that.

Also, on the Friday two huge storms passed very close by and just missed the site so again very lucky.

Add to that the forecast of very heavy rain from Sunday afternoon and we really did get lucky.

It could have been so much worse and thankfully I remembered to cover myself in factor 30 every morning so have a nice suntan and no burnt bits.

We where very lucky. Wednesday and Thursday nights had huge thunderstorms that missed us by about 30 miles, and caused localised flossing in London. 

[Nobody Interesting]

5 minutes ago, fur_q said:

We where very lucky. Wednesday and Thursday nights had huge thunderstorms that missed us by about 30 miles, and caused localised flossing in London. 

Localised flossing!!!!

Bloody hell we were lucky 

Edited June 30, 2016 by Nobody Interesting

[The Nal]

2 minutes ago, fur_q said:

We where very lucky. Wednesday and Thursday nights had huge thunderstorms that missed us by about 30 miles, and caused localised flossing in London. 

Yeah the rain can get in your teeth alright. 

There were a few really dodgy rain patches just over the north of the festival at times that just missed us. 

[alibear]

21 minutes ago, fur_q said:

As stated I ran the query splitting days at 6am BST so the Friday total would have included the rain that fell in the early hours of Saturday morning. It started at 4:45 (I know this as I have a text from a friend still on my phone saying they where going to bed because it was raining). I left the venue I was in at about 5 and walked back in the rain and it seemed to have stopped by the time I went to sleep at 6:30

Ah, I missed the asterix! There was definitely brief but heavy rain showers at around 8.30am though, wasn't there? That's what woke me up. I slept through the prolonged rain in the earlier hours - my husband told me about it in the morning.

Either way, as stated by a few already, we were definitely lucky with more than a couple of huge storms skirting right past us. Pretty rainbow, though...!

[Nobody Interesting]

1 hour ago, uscore said:

Does climate change mean that we are likely to have wetter Junes in the future?

If anyone could answer that they would be very wealthy!

[russycarps]

Apart from sunday the weather was much better than we could have dared hope for. I've got a lovely tan from that week. Shame we couldnt have swapped the monday and sunday round. We spend monday in the area and it was absolutely gorgeous.

Just a major pisser you could never sit down on the grass. 

 

[stuartbert two hats]

25 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Apart from sunday the weather was much better than we could have dared hope for. I've got a lovely tan from that week. Shame we couldnt have swapped the monday and sunday round. We spend monday in the area and it was absolutely gorgeous.

Just a major pisser you could never sit down on the grass. 

 

Given the weather reports for the evening on Sunday lunchtime (5 hours of heavy rain with an hour of drizzle each side), Sunday was one of the biggest misses of all!

[VisionOfLove]

1 hour ago, Nobody Interesting said:

We were very lucky.

The rainbow we had over the site was due to the 25 mm of rain dumped in the next valley - and we got none of that.

Also, on the Friday two huge storms passed very close by and just missed the site so again very lucky.

Add to that the forecast of very heavy rain from Sunday afternoon and we really did get lucky.

It could have been so much worse and thankfully I remembered to cover myself in factor 30 every morning so have a nice suntan and no burnt bits.

How good was that rainbow! Covered the whole festival during Tame Impala playing Let it happen whilst the sun was setting. One of my all time Glastonbury moments that very nearly shed a tear! 

[richy24]

36 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Given the weather reports for the evening on Sunday lunchtime (5 hours of heavy rain with an hour of drizzle each side), Sunday was one of the biggest misses of all!

Definitely! Remember looking at a couple of weather apps that said rain from 6pm carrying on until the early hours. Instead we got a couple of hours in the afternoon and I was in a tent for most of it. Had my poncho on for about an hour tops.

[russycarps]

39 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Given the weather reports for the evening on Sunday lunchtime (5 hours of heavy rain with an hour of drizzle each side), Sunday was one of the biggest misses of all!

Aye, I remember seeing the weather forecast first thing in the morning and being gripped by terror!

All in all, probably one of the better years weather wise. Just a terrible shame it was never enough to dry the place out.

 

[snorton82]

I got some sunburn but luckily it didn't hurt so I dodged the pain! Exactly how I wanted it. Got me a bit of colour for my holiday coming up

The weather was great, other than the mud and sunday

[Yokel Again]

Repeat we were lucky. Awful weather before Weds, and awful weather on Tues & Weds following. 

It was the weather beforehand that ****ed us over with the ground. Nevermind. 

[arcade fireman]

For me mud is far more important than weather. Usually the two are very closely intertwined so no need to make the distinction but this year we had a situation where the awful mud was there from the outset.

With rain you can just waterproof up or head inside one of the many indoor areas. Mud however there's not much you can do about and this year it was tiring, significantly increased walk times between stages, increased chances of falling in mud etc. If anything the slightly drier and occasionally sunny conditions made the mud bake a lot more making it harder to walk in.