Weather

[doogie]

Strange as there's no sign of this from the weather models.

The GFS 00z ensemble today does show some small precipitation spikes though.

Edited June 21, 2013 by doogie

[frostypaw]

I'm very grateful to those of you who know more than me for explaining whats going on; and although I'm lurking and not posting I must have checked this thread every hour at least for the past week or two.

But can anyone explain to me why the word 'unsettled' is used as a euphemism for rain? It just seems such a weedy phrase - a bit like the way the doctor says 'you might feel a bit of discomfort' before inflicting great pain.

'Unsettled' is the way that I've been nervously checking every weather forecast that the internet can provide at least twice while I've been writing this post...

[Funkungfusion]

Not sure if this has been posted previously but the Met office have a nice little Glasto section with interactive map and infographic thingy. Only goes up to Wednesday so far.

[fightoffyour]

Met Office: "There are 28 different stages or festival areas at this year's Glastonbury Festival, with international headliners on the Pyramid Stage including: "

Say whattt?

[teamsofa]

Thats what we need, GMS instead of TMS - Glasto Mud Special. Blowers sits on a chair in the Bandstand and provides commentary on everyone/everything he sees walking past during the day. Priceless

[Ed209]

I have a nice image in my head.... Blowers going "Would you look at that, a man dressed as a giraffe being led around by a policeman in fairy wings.. That reminds me of one time out in the Carribean, several of us were out late one night.... Anyway, here comes Jagger, he's in, sings."

[dingbat2]

Oh! and there's a pigeon. A beautifully crested plump pigeon. On the end of a stick. In the middle of the crowd. Quite a jolly little thing he is too

Edited June 21, 2013 by dingbat2

[chestwig]

BBC weather forecast is looking good today. Two days before the festival there seem to be some good dry warm weather, which should hopefully sort the ground out and keep the mud away.

Edited June 21, 2013 by chestwig

[teamsofa]

Oh! and there's a pigeon. A beautifully crested plump pigeon. On the end of a stick. In the middle of the crowd. Quite a jolly little thing he is too

[justperfect]

And now the shipping forcast.......

[The Nal]

And now the shipping forcast.......

[nollie]

If countryfile is the ultimate forecast, countryfile is on the BBC, the BBC are predicting no r**n then surely....

[pedmills]

Today's forecast

mm of rain from the different weather sites:

As you can see, every day except Friday looks dry (and even that looks dry on some websites).

How the forecasts have changed over the last few days:

[siblin]

Today's forecast

mm of rain from the different weather sites:

As you can see, every day except Friday looks dry (and even that looks dry on some websites).

How the forecasts have changed over the last few days:

[windy_miller]

Page 4 of Metro (London) says that forecasters predict a washout. No source, no further detail. Still lazy journalism like this might counter King Michael's comments and appease the weather gods (NFR NFC ... sorry taking no chances at this late stage!)

[justperfect]

Are we officially at the "scoffing" stage then now?

[Ed209]

It only takes an hour's downpour to turn that site to shit

never scoff until the monday after glasto and we're all in one piece and mudless. Then we can scoff all we like.

[Joeskeppi]

How much is 5mm of rain? I mean obviously it's 5mms but... is that a lot?

[sinhala]

Are we officially at the "scoffing" stage then now?

[APC]

http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-MSW-Surf-Charts/1/?imageScale=pressure&chartType=PRATE#?size=500&chartType=PRATE&_suid=13718095572960016155965240691073

This looks semi-promising.

[windy_miller]

I was scoffing at the laziness of it more than anything. It was literally a two line report under a photo which included the word "washout". I don't think whoever wrote it has actually been looking at any of the current forecasts, as none of them are currently predicting a washout.

[siblin]

How much is 5mm of rain? I mean obviously it's 5mms but... is that a lot?

[sinhala]

http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-MSW-Surf-Charts/1/?imageScale=pressure&chartType=PRATE#?size=500&chartType=PRATE&_suid=13718095572960016155965240691073

This looks semi-promising.

[ukdaasfan]

We need to stop this or this weather thread will have less relevance to the weather than Blowers commentary has to cricket

[ukdaasfan]

Met Office: "There are 28 different stages or festival areas at this year's Glastonbury Festival, with international headliners on the Pyramid Stage including: "

Say whattt?