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[psychology]

I am obviously not remembering 2011 properly cause I really dont remember it being that bad. I remember wearing wellies a bit but thats about it. I'm still scarred from 2007.

I also don't remember 2011 being that bad, okay Friday night was a bit miserable and the ground was a bit muddy but that's all. I never wore wellies once, just my walking boots.

As for last year I thought the weather was great, did it rain a bit on Thursday afternoon?

Maybe its the cider!

[Glastonlocal]

This is a superb video of 2005. Great times.

[Swine_Glasto2014]

2011 was a mud bath Friday. If I coukd upload photos I woukd add a few.

By Saturday it was a spongey bouncy floor and Sunday it was flip flops again

[Swine_Glasto2014]

This is a superb video of 2005. Great times.

Hopefully scenes like that will never happen. Apparently when we had all the floods back early this year, the site did not flood hardly atall.

Thank you for sharing that, means I will never ever stay in a tent at a festival EVER

[The Nal]

2011 was a mud bath Friday. If I coukd upload photos I woukd add a few.

Indeed.

[stuartbert two hats]

Indeed.

The entrance to The Park is probably the area on site most in need of drainage. Always seems to be the worst place for mud.

[Messy]

I fell face first in the mud by the other stage on friday night in 2011. absolutely caked myself. only the following morning did i realise that the mud had formed an ear plug of sorts in one of my ears.

[Ed209]

Most of 2011 has a shitshow. The dance village was a war zone. It was only sunday that was OK.

[dubgaz]

2011 was horrible. That bastard mud everywhere. Sunday was not too bad but by then my legs were so sore from trying to walk around that I was exhausted.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

2011 was horrible. That bastard mud everywhere. Sunday was not too bad but by then my legs were so sore from trying to walk around that I was exhausted.

And wandering round in wellies in the stonking heat of Sunday wasnt the most comfortable thing in the world either.

[fur_q]

Agree with the above 2011 was muddy all the way from Wednesday to Sunday morning.

If your defining shit weather/mudbath as anything equal to or worse than 2007 then your doing wrong.

Edited June 20, 2014 by fur_q

[The Pumpkin King]

Why are we talking 2011? Is a repeat looking likeky?

Got down there on the Thursday and it was a real mess, ended up coming home on the Sat morning as couldn't move with a pair of dodgy knees....that was my last one; surely it'll be different this way?

[Swine_Glasto2014]

I wore wellies Thursday n Friday, trainers Saturday and flip.flops sunday

[Swine_Glasto2014]

Why are we talking 2011? Is a repeat looking likeky?

Got down there on the Thursday and it was a real mess, ended up coming home on the Sat morning as couldn't move with a pair of dodgy knees....that was my last one; surely it'll be different this way?

It's looking alot better. 2011s downfall was lots of rain in the set up, site was fucked before 130000 walked on it.

This year, even if we get lot of rain, it will take a long time for it to get real bad. Seeing as no rain is forcast till atleast Wedneaday/ Thursday, it's should, no will be fine

[Swine_Glasto2014]

That's it now, I've finished work for the next two weeks...it's positive attitude all in now!

[Trebor]

Remember that video they made in 2011 trying to persuade us the site was okay in the run-up? That was well bleak.

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

That film from 2005

We were camped about 20 yards downhill further into the lake by the bank. My wife walks past camera at just over 29mins in as we were repitching. We still had a good weekend after all that drama.

[Gnomicide]

2011 - mud all over the shop. Horrible sticky, suck your wellies off mud.Sapped the energy out of you. Still had a great time but it does impact your enjoyments.

Warning: Video contains mud (including handy daily mud reports at:

• Wed - 0:05
• Thu - 0:22
• Fri - 2:04
• Sat - 2:48
• Sun - 5:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNvWZ1sDMuI

[stuartbert two hats]

Remember that video they made in 2011 trying to persuade us the site was okay in the run-up? That was well bleak.

Did a lot of rain fall in the preceding week? Can you find the video - I didn't go that year so wouldn't recognise it.

[MrPink]

Agree with the above 2011 was muddy all the way from Wednesday to Sunday morning.

If your defining shit weather/mudbath as anything equal to or worse than 2007 then your doing wrong.

Yes, yes and yes. 2011 was not much fun at all. The mud hung around forever.

[tumbles]

It'd been horrendous on the build up to 2011, despite it being dry for monday/tuesday before the festival the place was already cutting up from setting the site up.. when it rained at 10am on the Wednesday it was just about the worst possible outcome.

[The Nal]

Latest from JackOne!

Some of you have been very kind to send some site photos and conditions are looking good, however if the models are correct for the next 6 days, there will be a big change.

I know some of you will be off to the festival for the next few days, so have a good one and remember to keep in touch via the Net Weather twitter account which will publish a link to all new blog posts.

Enough padding by me and on for with the forecast, which will again do the forecast for each day of the forecast.

Overview
Tuesday is looking settled and dry, with some decent sunny spells.

Wednesday 25 June
High Pressure will change to low pressure over the UK, with NW winds expected over Glastonbury, pressure is expected to be around 1030-1032mb, Unfortunately this means almost guaranteed rain.

Thursday 26 June

Low Pressure continues to dominate, with winds West to NW over Glastonbury, pressure again expected to be around 1028-1030mb. A weather front if still forecast to be embedded with the Low Pressure. At this stage the continuing expectation for the heaviest of the rain is to hit the festival site Temps are expected to be around 19-20c.

Friday 27 June

Slight variances in the models at this point, but the general theme is for Low Pressure to be slightly further out west with winds West to North West, and for the pattern to be slightly flatter than on Thursday, with pressure around 1025-1030mb. Friday is now expected to be extremely wet according to the models, but with quite a bit of uncertainty about the cloud amount.

Saturday 28 June

The general pattern of Low Pressure to our South West is agreed. Pressure for the Glastonbury area between models ranges from 1023-1028mb, and some have the centre of the High quite close to the UK, others halfway to the Azores. It does seem likely to be again extremely wet and temps are likely to be low to mid 20s. Some sunny spells seem likely but some uncertainty at this stage.

Sunday 29 June

There seems even less agreement on Sunday's weather, the general theme of Low Pressure being nearby is agreed, beyond that no real agreement, with pressure forecast between 1022-1032mb and that is not even including the ensembles. Winds are likely to be from a West to South West direction and with 850Hpa temps around 10c, it not likely to be cold. So in summary looking wet, warm with temps low-mid 20s, and the chance of some sunshine.

Overall

The total rainfall charts are very consistent with rainfall, both runs go for around 73mm of rainfall in the next 9 days.

Edited June 20, 2014 by The Nal

[Messy]

Fuck.

[Gnomicide]

Nice try Nal.

[psychology]

That made me laugh.