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Except for Jeff the God of Biscuits. He definitely exists. I have sacrificed three chocolate digestives to his mightiness already this morning.

(Thanks to Eddie Izzard for that)

Corrected that for you.

NFR NFC

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This is all looking pretty good I reckon. The uninitiated think that if it rains at the fest then that automatically means it's a 'mudbath'. The fact is that to get a proper one, you need heavy rain consistently in the build-up, followed by pretty continuous rain during it too. It looks unlikely we're going to get a sh1tstorm in the next week or so, so even if it does take a bit of a turn for the worse, the ground should be pretty hard anyway which bodes well.

Oh dear, I've started looking in the weather thread - the fest really must be close!

exactly - we're stacking up dry days in the bank so, even if things take a turn for the worse, we're still mainly German - a bit Austrian at worst.

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This is all looking pretty good I reckon. The uninitiated think that if it rains at the fest then that automatically means it's a 'mudbath'. The fact is that to get a proper one, you need heavy rain consistently in the build-up, followed by pretty continuous rain during it too. It looks unlikely we're going to get a sh1tstorm in the next week or so, so even if it does take a bit of a turn for the worse, the ground should be pretty hard anyway which bodes well.

Oh dear, I've started looking in the weather thread - the fest really must be close!

Hopefully any rain we do get softens the ground up enough to get tent pegs in easily, but not enough to churn up under foot. Perfect festival soil consistency. That's all I really care about....soil consistency.

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Hopefully any rain we do get softens the ground up enough to get tent pegs in easily, but not enough to churn up under foot. Perfect festival soil consistency. That's all I really care about....soil consistency.

The fact is that in 2005 the entire average rainfall for June fell in one morning - and the site still largely recovered by the next day. And they've improved the drainage a shedload since then too.

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All joking aside (sorry Jeffie!!) part of my work means I have to be outside and have to know what days are good to be outside.

Over the years I have tried many forecasts and all have been more or less pointless until 3 days before (unless a large high pressure is firmly entrenched).

Of all the sites I looked at yr.no is the one I go to to be as sure as possible. Very detaied close to the day..... HOWEVER, 10 days ahead it is about as accurate as my best guess and often does change totally from one day to the next.

What is says now is lovely - but until Sunday I would not really trust what it says for Wednesday.

That's all - science over.... you all know there is only one real way.

Praise the weather gods NFR NFC

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Basically it is people - grown adults, not children - who spend their days on this board posting 'NFR NFC' endlessly thinking that it will mean the sun shines at the festival.

Hahaha I gathered that but what does it actually stand for?

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To be fair though, I can see the attraction to their group and why it's a bit of a laugh but they just take the joke too far sometimes and then it annoys people.

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