Weather

[sinhala]

Let's not peak too early guys - sheep counting will help.

[elbongo]

Me thinks Country files weather watch next Sunday is going to gain rather a lot of new viewers.

But please Gods of weather dry for the car parks the queue and the putting up of the tent

[GlastoSimon]

Guardian editor: "But, but, the weather is supposed to be BAD! BAD I TELL YOU!! What are we going to make negative and over exaggerated headlines about now?!"

Edited June 17, 2013 by GlastoSimon

[Matt42]

Guardian editor: "But, but, the weather is supposed to be BAD! BAD I TELL YOU!! What are we going to make negative and over exaggerated headlines about now?!"

[frostypaw]

I know Country Files is a great tradition, and fun...However...

Country File won't have any new information that Jackone or anyone on here would not have given already. In fact the weather report is not live, so it is behind the info usually pasted on here by keen weather forum regulars..

So although a fun tradition, it's in no way anything exclusive or new info

[lisa93]

Where is this upswing, I still fear unsettled from looking at mod thread on netweather, or am I just completely not understanding (probably!). Just want to know what I missed so I can keep my non weather following friends a decent update for a change!

[howlin_pete]

Think unsettled weather is still a possibility as everyone seems very uncertain as to what will happen next week. It's just that the general trend is for more settled weather at the moment

[lisa93]

Ah ok cool, well any sign of a better trend is good with me, but makes it all a bit nail biting too, why can't we have predictable weather!

[Dav0s]

Saw this guy referenced on netweather, who is doing video forecasts.

http://gavsweathervids.com/events.html

To sum it up, he forecasts mostly dry with occasional showers, but is concerned about the low pressure to the east of the UK, which could easily end up sitting on top of us.

This is killing me!

[Redwinevino]

According to a mate speaking to ones on site the ground is already very very soft and prepare for a mucky festival.

[Trebor]

How long has it been soft for? Didn't look it the other day.

[rubenz]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2640282

wednesday looks nice on the BBC (not that they can be trusted too much!)

Edited June 17, 2013 by rubenz

[redmosquito]

I thought someone had posted that they've just been having to spray the paths to keep the dust down.

I'm up north so I know the weather can be totally different but there certainly hasn't been enough rain around here to make the fields soggy.

[Cooter]

I doubt it's soft onsite be any means, not by close prefestival standards anyway. It's had decent periods of sunshine, winds and no prolonged rain over the last couple of weeks. Is your mate on acid? It can cause softness under foot!

Edited June 17, 2013 by Cooter

[frostypaw]

Maybe his mate is from The Other Lot and anything other than desert isn't good enough?

[JoeyT]

some bloke has been posting pics on twitter from on site and looked dry yesterday night...

[Cooter]

Yea right, NFR but if a couple of light showers are forecast then they are all bitter and twisted.

[Splatt]

Jackone had posted

Edited June 17, 2013 by Splatt

[elbongo]

Maybe his mate is from The Other Lot and anything other than desert isn't good enough?

[Redwinevino]

Maybe his mate is from The Other Lot and anything other than desert isn't good enough?

[howlin_pete]

Not too worried about the effects of pre-festival rain on the site after seeing how much it dried up by Saturday evening in 2011

Edit: Which is a good thing as Jackone seems to think that there will be an inch of rain between now and next Wednesday! Seems to think the festival itself will have reasonable weather though

http://forum.netweather.tv/blog/189/entry-4626-photo-glastonbury-forecast-11-17th-june/

Edited June 17, 2013 by howlin_pete

[briddj]

And mud cannot survive above 21 degrees = fact

[howlin_pete]

Not only have they spent a fuckton of money on drainage, but the effort the staff there do to make the mud more manageable (straw to sit on wherever they can, and even hoovering the mud up on Saturday afternoon last time) means that decent festival weather should mean that the site won't be a mudbath.

I'm just worried about that low to the east, would be typical for it to land right over us for the festival

Edited June 17, 2013 by howlin_pete

[Trebor]

Jackone, as far as I remember, has never actually been onsite and is a little overly liberal with the word "mudbath". Worth remembering.

Not dissing him by the way!

[elbongo]

Jackone, as far as I remember, has never actually been onsite and is a little overly liberal with the word "mudbath". Worth remembering.

Not dissing him by the way!