Weather

[drewsstrat]

Accuweather is improving its forecast, now looking good fri to Sunday and Wednesday is only day with noteable rain

[tumbles]

Express Front Page Tomorrow

[formed a band]

It's terrible when it rains like 2011

[olive123]

It's terrible when it rains like 2011

[kingmonkey1980]

Anyone who is part of this thread able to provide us with updates on the weather in the area in the run up to the festival? BBC weather saying its dry, iPhone saying raining now and the webcam isnt giving much away. Be interested to have updates of how the local weather is and if the ground is still dry as we gwt closer.

[tumbles]

Anyone who is part of this thread able to provide us with updates on the weather in the area in the run up to the festival? BBC weather saying its dry, iPhone saying raining now and the webcam isnt giving much away. Be interested to have updates of how the local weather is and if the ground is still dry as we gwt closer.

[Dav0s]

Anyone who is part of this thread able to provide us with updates on the weather in the area in the run up to the festival? BBC weather saying its dry, iPhone saying raining now and the webcam isnt giving much away. Be interested to have updates of how the local weather is and if the ground is still dry as we gwt closer.

[Guest]

Anyone who is part of this thread able to provide us with updates on the weather in the area in the run up to the festival? BBC weather saying its dry, iPhone saying raining now and the webcam isnt giving much away. Be interested to have updates of how the local weather is and if the ground is still dry as we gwt closer.

[shae]

Just got this from weather online:

Tuesday 25/6/13

Low pressure stays to the east with a ridge of high pressure building from the west. There could be some showers in the east, but western areas will be dry with sunny spells. Highs at 13 to 22C.

At the moment, from what I understand (and admittedly I'm very new to this) we're expected to get a plume of hot weather this week along with some thundery showers, then returning back to unsettled over the weekend, although high pressure is then expected to build from the west around Tuesday/Wednesday:)

[TheNewUnion]

This guy is on-site https://twitter.com/RangerRoy8

Posted several pics yesterday and promised more today. Was taking requests yesterday, so worth a look.

[frostypaw]

Light drizzle in Bristol, ground has become quite damp over the weekend on the surface at least, but still plenty of time for this to dry out.

Looking at the overnight GFS runs, there appears to be some nice high pressure over the UK during the festival (which I thought was good), but the precipitation graphs show rain. Can anybody make sense of these?!

[dingbat2]

Latest BBC monthly forecast, issue yesterday....

Monday 24 June—Sunday 30 June Will the weather play ball...?

The Wimbledon fortnight is notorious for its weather interruptions over the years. So how is the weather looking for Wimbledon and all the other events like the Glastonbury festival and the British Grand Prix taking place on the last week of June?

Well, the changeable weather will continue across the UK. There will be spells of wet and windy weather across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Elsewhere there will be drier, brighter conditions but bands of light rain will cross all parts from time to time.

Stick!

[dingbat2]

... just thinking about that BBC outlook, those conditions seem ideal. Drier and brighter with light rain. Dare I say it, a bit of light drizzle would be good - especially at night - otherwise the site turns into a dustbowl, which can be really unpleasant. Sorry all you NFR NFC people. Not suggesting rain, just light drizzle!

[pedmills]

Today's update

Metcheck are forecasting 6mm on the monday, 1.9mm on the tuesday, 0.8mm on the wednesday, 5mm on the thursday, 13.8mm on the friday, 6.1mm on the saturday, 5.4mm on the sunday.

Which would mean rain pretty much throughout - not quite 2007 levels but at least 2011-like.

Accuweather are forecasting 1mm on the monday, 1mm on the tuesday, 10mm on the wednesday, 4mm on the thursday, 0mm on the friday, 1mm on the saturday, 0mm on the sunday.

This would be a wet start but dry for most of the weekend. Something like 2009.

Netweather say there will be rain on monday, rain on tuesday, a drier wednesday, rain on thursday, a drier friday, a drier saturday, a drier sunday.

Because they don't predict how much rain, this isn't very helpful but sounds a bit 2008/2009-like.

The Weather Outlook forecast 1.2mm on the tuesday, 0mm on the wednesday, 0mm on the thursday, 0mm on the thursday, 0mm on the friday, 0mm on the saturday, 2.4mm on the sunday.

That would make for a very dry festival.

The BBC say it will drier and brighter in the south but with bands of light rain.

The Met Office say drier and wetter spells.

The Weather Channel say that there is a 10% chain of rain on monday, 20% on tuesday, 10% on wednesday - no forecasts after that yet.

yr.no forecast 0.8mm on monday, 0mm on tuesday, 0.4mm on wednesday - no forecast after that yet.

Weather Online won't release the 14-day forecasts for local areas for free, but for London they forecast 2mm on monday, and then 0mm every day for the rest of the festival.

Conclusion: Only metcheck - which fluctuates wildly - is looking bad at the moment. The other sites suggest a mix of wetter and drier spells - so again sounds like at best 2008, at worst 2011.

I'll keep doing these summaries every day to save everyone from scrawling around different sites.

Edited June 17, 2013 by pedmills

[dingbat2]

The Met Office say drier and wetter spells.

[tumbles]

I'll take anything but that Metcheck one.

[Midnight Man]

I think the person who did the Metcheck forecast just didn't get a ticket

[filmguy]

I think the person who did the Metcheck forecast just didn't get a ticket

[Wooderson]

2008 is a "best worst option" though. It was cold and miserable for most of the weekend.

[TomfromStroud]

This thread is a rollercoaster ride of emotions ... started off this morning feeling optimistic, later read a few more posts and felt a bit pessimistic and now feel optimistic again this evening .. up down, up down ... its gonna be okay I can feel it!

[Thearg]

This rollercoaster of emotions is how I know Glastonbury is coming. Family, friends and colleagues say "You alright today? You seem a bit down" and I mumble something about the Azores High being very weak.

What I genuinely enjoy about all of this is it can have such an impact on my happiness and yet I have no control over it whatsoever. It's nice to feel the power of nature every now and again.

[Bubblecup]

I have been looking a lot at various weather sites and apps over the last few weeks. I realise it's futile, I can't control the weather (yet, I am working on it though) We will get whatever weather we get and spending hours looking at it is not going to change anything.

It still doesn't stop me checking several times a day though...

[DTichborne]

I reckon it'll be dry except when it's raining.

[elbongo]

[ICGenie]

Meteogroup predicting a lot of rain this week but dry next week...