Weather thread 2010

[rachbon]

It was a bloody nightmare. My bag of knickers floated off in the flood!

[Langdale Wolf]

there's no point in bothering with weather forecasts. if the weather is going to be shit, what difference does it make knowing before the festival?

those pictures LW posted are a bit f**ked up..

[rachbon]

It makes a hell of a lot of difference. If it's going to be shit, I need to prepare myself that it's going to be shit.

If it's going to be scorching, I need to prepare myself that it's going to be shit.

It's all about the planning. Hope for the best. Expect the worst.

2005 told me that. Those pictures ARE alarming but they're even worse if you remember what the weather was like 8 hours before that bloody storm started.

[Langdale Wolf]

the weather forecasts might not be right though, any one with a bit of sense will be prepared for scorching heat and horrendous rain.

[dan05delaney]

Sh*t them photo's are awful where was the first one taken??

[Langdale Wolf]

Sh*t them photo's are awful where was the first one taken??

[Bohemian]

It was all my fault - it was my 30th birthday on the Friday - convinced the storm started about 3am - seemingly the exact time I was born.

Will never forget it!

[Steve P]

Sh*t them photo's are awful where was the first one taken??

[cejx]

aw naw!

why does it get so flooded at glasto? i've never seen anything like that. you can still enjoy yourself in the rain to some extent but if all my stuff got soaked inside my tent i'd be gutted.

Edited May 10, 2010 by cejx

[elbongo]

Right!!!

No more of these darn miserable pictures!

Positive thinking is the way forward. So get your minds in tune. Or you will be punished!

Somehow??

This is the way...

[Nex]

According to oil industry predictions (a lot more accurate then the MET), it will stay cold until ~first week of June and then warm up rapidly.

[Rolf Harris]

2005 obviously was pretty scary during the storm and the mud by the end was a real pain but 2007 it started raining on the thursday and didn't stop. Just wanted to get my didgeridoo and go home by sunday.

[Sam Crawley]

2005 and 2007. Seen the pictures. So glad I wasn't there. That said, it's good to understand how bad it can get, to have a benchmark of depravity as it were!

So, can someone do some sort of "Rolf Playing -> Good weather" correlation exercise, I'm sure there's a link!

[glastofreak]

aw naw!

why does it get so flooded at glasto? i've never seen anything like that. you can still enjoy yourself in the rain to some extent but if all my stuff got soaked inside my tent i'd be gutted.

[Mmmm Beer]

There are a couple of reasons as to why the site floods so easily. First it is a bowl so all the rain runs down the hill, second the sides of the bowl is covered in (mainly) waterproof tents. Third the soil is fairly clayey so does not soak up the water well, fourth 150K people tramping round soon turns the ground to mud. Finally the site is only a few meters above sea level making it hard for the water to leave the site.

[Savy]

Here's hoping I wake up to cook my sausages on the barbie with a view like this every morning

I thought that apart from the Thursday night (I think) last year was damned awesome weather. I got home looking like I'd been to Spain for a fortnight! Tan-Tastic!

[guypjfreak]

Here's hoping I wake up to cook my sausages on the barbie with a view like this every morning

I thought that apart from the Thursday night (I think) last year was damned awesome weather. I got home looking like I'd been to Spain for a fortnight! Tan-Tastic!

[fdc]

2005 obviously was pretty scary during the storm and the mud by the end was a real pain but 2007 it started raining on the thursday and didn't stop. Just wanted to get my didgeridoo and go home by sunday.

[4AssedMonkey]

Loving that photo of the river through the campsite. The guy sat in his tent with the water running through it looks soooo pisseed off...

I confidently predict scorching weather throughout this year. I can't even contemplate what it must be like in a torrential year. My brain just rejects it out of hand and won't let me think about it.

[fdc]

According to oil industry predictions (a lot more accurate then the MET), it will stay cold until ~first week of June and then warm up rapidly.

[jamseyboy]

This is intriguing, tell me more. Where would one find these oil industry predictions? And how would they be more accurate than the MET (who i think work with the miliatary etc)?

Edited May 13, 2010 by jamseyboy

[Langdale Wolf]

My mate came back from 2007 and met me in the pub. It was like talking to 'Nam vet returning from the jungle - he was genuinely shaken up, took him a while to talk about his experiences...

[fdc]

The horror.......... The horror................

[Langdale Wolf]

Is that second one by John Peel? We camped there the year after, much to the dismay of the people with us who had been there in 2007 who said it would be a mud bath. We had good weather, but I could see that if it did rain it would get muddy pretty quick, being so low down.

[The Nal]

The horror.......... The horror................