WEATHER 2009 !

[paulo80]

10mm is peanuts. in 2007 we probably had an inch or two.

[theleedslads]

I'm staying positive - only because I firmly believe that it can't be worse than 2007 and I had a great time that year.......... so bring it on I say! (and by it I mean hot sunshine!)

[just-spence]

meh , i swear that people just hope for the direct oposite of what the forecast says ..

[bombfrog]

the last frame is the Friday..

unless I'm being dim..?!!?

[just-spence]

and im pretty sure 07 was worse than 05 , it rained constantly in 07 .. by the sunday my spirit was broken

[hairofthedog]

http://weather.unisys.com/gfsx/9panel/gfsx...9panel_eur.html

re the last frame [the fest Saturday] --- rain/showers/thunderstorms loom - but let's see what tomorrow's chart brings

[hairofthedog]

How much would you say we had on the Friday, with all the heavy showers?

[parsonjack]

It does, but not too much at the moment.

I'll take a look at 2007 and 2005 figures and post them on here. At a gues though, easily 40mm 2005 thursday in to Friday.

And 50-60mm throughout 2007.

[mandb]

2005 - 36mm during Thursday night and Friday, again absolutely loads.

[Kelly]

I think there should be a festival rule that if it rains everyone is to stop walking anywhere and wait for it to stop and dry out to prevent the mud from forming.

Even if you need the loo - hold it for the sake of the festival!

[parsonjack]

I think there should be a festival rule that if it rains everyone is to stop walking anywhere and wait for it to stop and dry out to prevent the mud from forming.

Even if you need the loo - hold it for the sake of the festival!

[r0cky]

2007 there was more rain but it was spread over the whole weekend...which imo was far more depressing...particularly sunday night/monday morning

[Aragorn]

06z looks half decent and looks very warm on the wednesday

the low pressure is near but still goes into northern france rather than the UK

[Kelly]

either that or just slab the whole site over... prob get a good bulk discount at Homebase

[parsonjack]

The Sunday night/Monday morning was the final icing on the cake on the shite weather front in 2007.

[Katster]

The Sunday night/Monday morning WAS depressing in 2007 but we managed to find somewhere which was brilliant, eventually, after hours and hours of searching and trudging through the rain. It was somewhere in Lost Vagueness and was playing mental tunes I wouldn't normally have really danced to. I got glitter thrown all over me and didn't arrive back at my tent until around 7am. I'm so so so so glad I didn't give up trying to find somewhere like I oh so very nearly did!

[clockworkpurple]

06z looks half decent and looks very warm on the wednesday

the low pressure is near but still goes into northern france rather than the UK

[Special_Wodger]

yeah, they owe us one!

nothing can be worse than 2007, coz it was just misery. fairy nuff 2005 was bad but least it wasn't as relentless.

one week left!!!

[Bagpuss007]

New Metoffice update;

UK Outlook for Monday 22 Jun 2009 to Wednesday 1 Jul 2009:

The weather during the last week or so of June is expected to be dominated by high pressure. This will mean plenty of fine, dry and sunny conditions, especially for central and southern areas, but these should affect the rest of the UK to some extent. Winds will be mostly light, leading to cooling sea breezes on many coasts. However, the high pressure is expected to gradually decline away to the northeast near the end of the month, and showers may develop across some southern and southeastern parts of England. Fine and dry conditions with spells of sunshine should continue though across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperatures will be generally warm or very warm, especially across inland central and southern Britain at first, then tending towards western Britain later.

Updated: 1128 on Wed 17 Jun 2009

Looks OK but as been said by Jackone and Aragon, looks like we might get some rain towards the end of the festival - let's hope it arrives on the 30th June Still looking good though WOOHOOO!!

[jumboclark]

sounds good to me =)

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

I think there should be a festival rule that if it rains everyone is to stop walking anywhere and wait for it to stop and dry out to prevent the mud from forming.

Even if you need the loo - hold it for the sake of the festival!

[goldfishboy]

i'm not sure if that's true... when it stops raining, all those tramping feet actually compact the mud and make it easier to walk over...

[bombfrog]

i'm not sure if that's true... when it stops raining, all those tramping feet actually compact the mud and make it easier to walk over...

[kloot]

New Metoffice update;

UK Outlook for Monday 22 Jun 2009 to Wednesday 1 Jul 2009:

The weather during the last week or so of June is expected to be dominated by high pressure. This will mean plenty of fine, dry and sunny conditions, especially for central and southern areas, but these should affect the rest of the UK to some extent. Winds will be mostly light, leading to cooling sea breezes on many coasts. However, the high pressure is expected to gradually decline away to the northeast near the end of the month, and showers may develop across some southern and southeastern parts of England. Fine and dry conditions with spells of sunshine should continue though across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperatures will be generally warm or very warm, especially across inland central and southern Britain at first, then tending towards western Britain later.

Updated: 1128 on Wed 17 Jun 2009

Looks OK but as been said by Jackone and Aragon, looks like we might get some rain towards the end of the festival - let's hope it arrives on the 30th June Still looking good though WOOHOOO!!

[Frenchie1973]

2005 Friday was worse than 07