Weather thread 2011

[autoinflate]

Has anybody else noticed that when this thread goes off topic it starts chucking it down.

Now ffs can we please discuss the arseing weather?

Ta

[_danny_]

In which case maybe a concerted period of agreement, well wishes and heartfelt cordiality is in order.

[New Cillit Bang]

Ignore Metcheck peeps... their predictions are just complete toss! If we're not battling 300mph winds were freezing our nads off in near arctic conditions!

I've found weather outlook to be much better...I'd settle for this right now tbh...

[Guest]

Taking my daughter this year (took her last year also)...just wondered if anyone knows how bad the kids field gets when it's wet and muddy?

[eFestivals]

Taking my daughter this year (took her last year also)...just wondered if anyone knows how bad the kids field gets when it's wet and muddy?

just about as bad as everywhere else unfortunately - but it does get just about first shout on straw if they're putting that down to deal with the worst bits (tho there's only so much that straw can do).

[slipmatt]

Bums - seen this? http://www.gigwise.com/news/64105/Glastonbury-Festival-Weather-Forecast-Set-For-Heavy-Showers

Still can't wait - but wellies it is!

[haznutuk]

Taking my daughter this year (took her last year also)...just wondered if anyone knows how bad the kids field gets when it's wet and muddy?

[schmangle-mangle]

Cannae get on metcheck, can you lot get orf so I can have a look, thank you muchly

[The Nal]

Bums - seen this? http://www.gigwise.com/news/64105/Glastonbury-Festival-Weather-Forecast-Set-For-Heavy-Showers

Edited June 20, 2011 by The Nal

[_danny_]

Not too bad. It's up the hill. It will get muddy but nothing like the kind of mud that you might encounter in Babylon. I was there in 2003 or 2004 (can't remember which - early onset of Alzheimers and the bloody helicopters overhead are driving me mad). But it was a wet and soggy year and I was theoretically in charge of four under-tens. The Kids Field was fine. As was Theatre/Circus. I didn't take the little {censored] darlings anywhere near the main stages.

[briddj]

Ignore Metcheck peeps... their predictions are just complete toss! If we're not battling 300mph winds were freezing our nads off in near arctic conditions!

I've found weather outlook to be much better...I'd settle for this right now tbh...

[MyTwistedWords]

Good point. And perhaps our weather prospects are directly influenced by the ferocity of argument in this thread. Stranger things have been observed in the sphere of human endeavour, that much is certain.

In which case maybe a concerted period of agreement, well wishes and heartfelt cordiality is in order.

[steviewevie]

Bums - seen this? http://www.gigwise.com/news/64105/Glastonbury-Festival-Weather-Forecast-Set-For-Heavy-Showers

Still can't wait - but wellies it is!

[haznutuk]

Not too bad. It's up the hill. It will get muddy but nothing like the kind of mud that you might encounter in Babylon. I was there in 2003 or 2004 (can't remember which - early onset of Alzheimers and the bloody helicopters overhead are driving me mad). But it was a wet and soggy year and I was theoretically in charge of four under-tens. The Kids Field was fine. As was Theatre/Circus. I didn't take the little {censored] darlings anywhere near the main stages.

[The Pumpkin King]

Bums - seen this? http://www.gigwise.com/news/64105/Glastonbury-Festival-Weather-Forecast-Set-For-Heavy-Showers

Still can't wait - but wellies it is!

[haznutuk]

Current weather in Glastonbury [town] is a lot brighter. No sun but no rain either. Thin cloud cover and a slight breeze.

[maxhoyland]

Every forecast is different, so basically none of them have a fecking clue.

I predict 3 nice days, one average day and one miserable day. And that would be fine by me.

[New Cillit Bang]

Except the BBC TV weather just said no rain at all tomorrow, yet that suggests lots of rain.

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be. We're going to Glastonbury. Que sera sera.

[briddj]

Looking ok at the Tor. Birds flying across. http://www.checkitlive.com/camera/901

[fur_q]

Think we should ignore all 'news' articles about the weather, they're mostly churnalised PR puff pieces designed to get a particular forecast co's name in the paper and are always going to be made to sound a bit more dramatic than they actually are.

+ at this stage by the time the articles have even gone to press the data used for the forecasts will be out of date

[strummer77]

Look at weather reports but don't read 'journalist's' articles on them. They'll exaggerate the weather one way or the other to create a story. Truth is it won't reach the highs of 2010 for sunshine but it is not going to be a 2007 washout.

Bring it on.

Edited June 20, 2011 by strummer77

[steviewevie]

None of the forecasts match. ECM seem to be predicting a warm up for the weekend (and dryish I think), but BBC which uses Met office (UKMO) keeps crappy cool, wet weather over us. You'd think by now some of these models would start agreeing.

[haznutuk]

it'll be my second year with my - now - 16 month old daughter, and i'm terrified about the pram. we can live with any heat, any cold, any rain, even mud, but if it gets to the point were we can't push a pram, we're screwed and might have to sneak home

[CaledonianGonzo]

Any update from the site? Did it bear the brunt of the rain or did it emerge relatively unscathed?