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"The Met Office is more hopeful about the weather for Glastonbury Festival 2014 with the forecast looking dry.

The music festival in Somerset has often been known for its wet weather but this year is looking like it might be a drier event.

Although the sun may not shining everyday forecasters believe the temperatures will be mild and sunny spells will break through the cloudlb_icon1.png.

Laura Young, from the Met Office, said: "Looking aheadicon1.png at this stage we can say that it is looking more settled than initially thought."

Read more: http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Latest-Glastonbury-Festival-weather-update-Met/story-21248033-detail/story.html#ixzz34ynMpVI4

Read more at http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Latest-Glastonbury-Festival-weather-update-Met/story-21248033-detail/story.html#OoCflW11BmQgyeJC.99

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Yep, 4mm is easy for the dry site to tolerate. Other forecasts have suggested a breakdown too in the high pressure stability next week, however as always we will know only after the Countryfile farming forecast on Sunday... ;)

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"The Met Office is more hopeful about the weather for Glastonbury Festival 2014 with the forecast looking dry.

The music festival in Somerset has often been known for its wet weather but this year is looking like it might be a drier event.

Although the sun may not shining everyday forecasters believe the temperatures will be mild and sunny spells will break through the cloudlb_icon1.png.

Laura Young, from the Met Office, said: "Looking aheadicon1.png at this stage we can say that it is looking more settled than initially thought."

Read more: http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Latest-Glastonbury-Festival-weather-update-Met/story-21248033-detail/story.html#ixzz34ynMpVI4

Read more at http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Latest-Glastonbury-Festival-weather-update-Met/story-21248033-detail/story.html#OoCflW11BmQgyeJC.99

can't ask for much more than that at this stage.

I remember in 2013 the weather last week (in London anyway) was poor so don't think it has any bearing on what its going to be like 2 weeks in advance.

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'might be a drier'... still got the word 'might' in there so fingers crossed might will change to 'will'

Yeah hopefully it does but their vague descriptions are quite annoying - "it may not rain", "it'll probably be drier than normal", "there's a high chance the weather will be good".

Reminds me of those tarot reading gypsys.

Anyway, rant over and hopefully it WILL be drier :)

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It'll change again tomorrow.

Individual forcasts that tell you it will rain x amount at x time over a week in advance will change all the time but the models in a general sense have been pretty consistently saying (excluding a couple of massive outliers) that we should expect a relatively good fetival week, not particularly hot, the odd shower here and there but overall not a mudbath.

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Yep, 4mm is easy for the dry site to tolerate. Other forecasts have suggested a breakdown too in the high pressure stability next week, however as always we will know only after the Countryfile farming forecast on Sunday... ;)

Exactly. In 2010, on the Friday before, the Met Office and others were predicting widespread rain for the festival weekend. Looked like we might be in for a m*dbath.

And then, from Saturday onwards, it all started to fall into place.

It's so close and yet so far ...

Where are Langdale Wolf and Devonhammer when we need them?

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Just remembered a superb weather forecast back in the late 90's whilst at uni, BBC South West region, weather forecaster at a local show, his summary was:

'Might rain, might not, now look at these lovely Begonias'

EDIT: OT, the road signs are going up warning locals of possible delays due to the festival, noticed a load on the way back from work yesterday and I reckon they're prepping for the ones on the A303 too. It's getting close :D

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Exactly. In 2010, on the Friday before, the Met Office and others were predicting widespread rain for the festival weekend. Looked like we might be in for a m*dbath.

And then, from Saturday onwards, it all started to fall into place.

It's so close and yet so far ...

Where are Langdale Wolf and Devonhammer when we need them?

He hasnt posted on this forum in years.

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The phrase that is bugging me is 'pleasantly warm'. WTF does that mean

You're right - it's a worrying prospect. We've all read about hardy explorers that have been caught out without warning by 'pleasantly warm' conditions and ended up drinking their own urine and eating the dogs. Let's pray it doesn't happen here.

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