WEATHER 2009 !

[Smee]

The weather is going to be mainly ace with a little refreshing and light rain just to cool us off from the baking sun lest we all suffer from heatstroke. That is all.

[scorp]

note that if there are thundery outbreaks they may affect the south and central areas more than the south west. but we shall see. the met office forecats doesn't sound too ominous. i doubt we'll have torrential rain unless it's in short bursts. basically it's high pressure to the north and an area of slack low pressure way to rhe south of the UK. that does not allow for the incursion of hot unstable area from the deep south, which gave us 2005's monsoon. all we're gonna get is the occasional tough of low pressure coming in from the east [or developing over the uk], which may, if we're lucky, be not too bad for t5hye south west of the uk, of which glasto is a part.

[Aragorn]

cool thanks for that...

sorry to be dumb...but can someone explaine the following passage for me:

"however if the operational forecast was translated to the ensembles over the next couple of days, I would raise the score to 7 or 8."

operational forecast?

Ensemble??

Thanks again...

[MEGABOWL]

The weather is going to be mainly ace with a little refreshing and light rain just to cool us off from the baking sun lest we all suffer from heatstroke. That is all.

[evansonuk]

data is fed into a computer that models the weather based on the data fed in. There are 20/21 runs in total I think and the operational run is the the highest resolution one. The ensembles are the other runs

so what Jackone is saying is that if the ensembles started agreeing with the operational run it would be a good thing as the operational run was a positive run for good festival weather

hope that makes sense

[elfimaju]

Just read that "Who's posted the most in this thread" page and saw I'd posted 6 times!! Can't even remember posting, usually the weather thread is just too much to read for me, let alone post!

BTW - Make that 7 times

[devonhammer]

Thats cool, thanks a lot for clearing that one up.

when do we know if the ensembles agree with the operational?

Just keep looking here i spose

ta

Edited June 22, 2009 by devonhammer

[Haggis]

gawd, I'm back to pessimism. Last year Countryfile gave us a fine dry week ahead of the fest, and Thursday/Friday were all the more depressing because of that.

A pessimist is never disappointed. I'm packing the waterproofs tonight

[devonhammer]

I'm packing the waterproofs tonight

[Lukylu]

Drink as much Brothers pear cider as you can and you won't give a hoot whether it's raining or not.

[amfy]

Met check (the weather fruit machine) is currently giving no rain except 1mm on Sunday at 3pm.

I'll take that one please!

[steveo]

Met check (the weather fruit machine) is currently giving no rain except 1mm on Sunday at 3pm.

I'll take that one please!

[kohoutec]

I think this is very important. Weather forecasts are all well and good, but they're fighting against Sod's Law. If we all turn up in flip-flops it WILL rain, but if we all turn up in wellies with no suncream it will be a scorcher.

[Haggis]

I think this is very important. Weather forecasts are all well and good, but they're fighting against Sod's Law. If we all turn up in flip-flops it WILL rain, but if we all turn up in wellies with no suncream it will be a scorcher.

[Arriente]

After 2005 I've vowed never to turn up without waterproofs again, even if it's heatwave conditions

[amfy]

which forecast are you looking at?...i still see a big batch of rain on saturday afternoon on metcheck

[Aragorn]

00z run was a mild outlier for pressure - the 3rd worst run

however, a number of runs go for rain at the week-end

[Kelly]

Yesterday's Countryfile forecast was my favourite - I'm going to stick remembering that one. No rain at all!

I'll also be refreshing the Metcheck fruit machine every hour!!

[wigstonmania]

oh dear

[Glastonbury_2011]

oh dear

[kohoutec]

oh dear

Edited June 22, 2009 by kohoutec

[StevieF]

oh dear

[windy_miller]

oh dear

Edited June 22, 2009 by windy_miller

[FrayBentos]

Drink as much Brothers pear cider as you can and you won't give a hoot whether it's raining or not.

[amfy]

oh dear