Weather

[stuartbert two hats]

Only if Metallica are playing in there.

No, it's Arcade Fire. Mention their Jools performance. I double dare you!

[Andeeroo]

Anyone fancy coming for a mosh in my camper van?

Only if it's parked outside the doors of my local music venue and covered in adverts!

[Woffy]

Yeah but the difference between this thread and yours is that here we're looking at the data as it becomes available and over there you're putting your heads in the sand in the pretence of belief.

As a scientist, weather really is the single most non-empirical science. It IS a science, just an inaccurate one. And one that has been ridiculed as such.

And science is anti-absolutist...isn't it? We have moved on from Newton, even though his gravitational theory 'works'.

[ICGenie]

Yeah but the difference between this thread and yours is that here we're looking at the data as it becomes available and over there you're putting your heads in the sand in the pretence of belief.

No, the difference is that you all take yourselves incredibly seriously despite not actually having anything to say while we're just having a bit of fun.

[GlastoSimon]

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoforecasts/17-to-30-day-outlook.aspx

There!

Stick. I know it will change 1,000,000 times between now and the 25th, but stick goddamnit.

[frostypaw]

Would you be able to highlight the 'snide' and 'nasty' comments please...and i will personally have a word.

Seriously.

Page 1 onwards mate.

Seriously.

Appending 'seriously.' to a post doesn't make it like you read the thread.

[A Guy Called Matt]

No, it's Arcade Fire. Mention their Jools performance. I double dare you!

Oh God no.................................................

but I actually thought they were OK on Jools and I don't like them much!!

[stuartbert two hats]

Double post

Edited June 1, 2014 by stuartbert two hats

[Glastonlocal]

As a scientist, weather really is the single most non-empirical science. It IS a science, just an inaccurate one. And one that has been ridiculed as such.

And science is anti-absolutist...isn't it? We have moved on from Newton, even though his gravitational theory 'works'.

Woffy admits to being a scientist.

Win!

To be fair, meteorology is one of the day to day most useful sciences there is, even if it can't predict rainfall to within a square inch or by the minute. The brave hero scientists who man our weather stations around the globe have saved millions of lives. By belittling it, you belittle their brilliant work and sacrifices.

[russycarps]

the UK is a difficult country to predict weather for due to the fact it is on the edge of a big fuck off ocean and oceanic weather systems are far more unstable and unpredictable, even for the most powerful computer simulators.

Predicting the weather for a landlocked country in the middle of a continent is a piece of cake, for a long time in advance

basically the festival needs to relocate to hungary

[Woffy]

I've not said that. I said uninformed. If I chimed in about heart surgery and someone said "you don't know what you're talking about" I'd said 'fair play' - not get moody

Yes. I've got the arse. Because it's nice to have the occasional thread not completely spammed to hell with nonsense

Or are you setting the rules now and every thread is to be full of crap?

Sometimes I do wonder - are you all the types of 'anarchist' who'd keep coming into a quiet theatre performance and screaming and banging drugs - then laugh and say it's a free world?

It IS a free world, so let others have some and don't force the chaos you want into everywhere - i'm not coming forcing any sense and order into the NFRNFC thread

respect for each people. it's not hard.

Frosty,

Really?

Seriously?!

This is a thread. On a website. On the internet.

It's as much as a fucking free for all as you can find...for our generation.

We're that lucky.

So there's this site...different threads about different stuff relating to one festival we all love.

But we love and post about the same festival.

And there's 2 threads about the weather at the festival we all love.

And there's some irreverent silliness on one thread from someone who prefers the irreverent silliness of the other thread?!

(Can i offer my campervan ticket to someone who looks like my sister's boyfriend's mate's uncle...PLEEEEEASE?)

Oki doke.

I'll never post again here now.

Please can someone let me know when i'm allowed to tease the people who have the right to own the rules to this forum so i can enjoy being irreverent with my friends again.

Thanks.

[Keithy]

*clasps sides before laughter splits them in two*

It's not humour, it's belittling and massively distracting when we're trying to have a thread about weather with some science and sense in it, not just one with people coming in every two hours "NFRNFC!NFRNFC! Ah you can't predict tomorrow's weather, supercomputers! Hah!" - repeat as necessary for 21 pages

or you guys can go do that stuff in your thread, we can do our stuff in our thread and maybe we can visit each other once a week not all the time until all discussion is lost under spam.

Hear hear!

Whilst I post in the NFR NFC thread (as I am too praying for sun), the 'science' weather thread is one of my favourite Glastonbury rituals. I love the geek-out over the data and the updated forecasts and discussions. I love the first 'on the ground' evidence from Big Dog.

The occasional 'cross thread' posts from both sides is harmless 'science v religion' humour. The persistent posting does get rather tiring and disrupts the flow of conversation on the thread.

[Glastonlocal]

Yes we mustn't allow ourselves to be distracted. Let's refocus on the weather.

[Abster]

Hmm just watched Countryfile weather report..... This week it's going to be a changeable week and Thursday is the best day....

Also mention May is the 6th month in a row with above average temps and this was the 3rd warmest spring on record..... :/

[Mr.Tease]

Hmm just watched Countryfile weather report..... This week it's going to be a changeable week and Thursday is the best day....

Also mention May is the 6th month in a row with above average temps and this was the 3rd warmest spring on record..... :/

That can't be true! I thought it had been a chilly spring- I've been in my thermals for most of it!

[frostypaw]

Hmm just watched Countryfile weather report..... This week it's going to be a changeable week and Thursday is the best day....

Also mention May is the 6th month in a row with above average temps and this was the 3rd warmest spring on record..... :/

How can you sound worried about that? Is all gravy

It has been a lovely spring since the big wet stopped. Plenty of tan already

There's no guaranteed heatwave yet but this is all a long way from how things looked in 07 and if we're honest that's the big scary monster we're scared of no matter the science behind it

[stuartbert two hats]

How can you sound worried about that? Is all gravy

It has been a lovely spring since the big wet stopped. Plenty of tan already

There's no guaranteed heatwave yet but this is all a long way from how things looked in 07 and if we're honest that's the big scary monster we're scared of no matter the science behind it

That's the bogie monster all right. I like to be able to sit down, but I fucking hate being rained on for 4 days.

[jeffie]

Actually, I take it all back. I've just read so of this exchange. There are people from both sides who banter and there are some sad sods who get upset.

Does anyone on the NFR NFC thread moan about the ones who pay post on there? No.

[jeffie]

FP, get a life and a sense of humour

[Abster]

How can you sound worried about that? Is all gravy

It has been a lovely spring since the big wet stopped. Plenty of tan already

There's no guaranteed heatwave yet but this is all a long way from how things looked in 07 and if we're honest that's the big scary monster we're scared of no matter the science behind it

Oh I'm not worried, I just take things with a pinch of salt!

Yes 07 was horrible I didn't go but friends did and some had enough by the Sat afternoon and went home....

[jeffie]

How can you sound worried about that? Is all gravy

It has been a lovely spring since the big wet stopped. Plenty of tan already

There's no guaranteed heatwave yet but this is all a long way from how things looked in 07 and if we're honest that's the big scary monster we're scared of no matter the science behind it

You talk crap here and there

[musky]

Some people could do with learning the meaning of the word 'consideration'. A lot of what is now going on is now just trolling.

That's not excused because the poster thinks it's humorous.

[frostypaw]

Does anyone on the NFR NFC thread moan about the ones who pay post on there? No.

maybe they're just messing around all the time, not trying to have a more sane discussion

Can different threads not have different levels of nonsense? I don't think see what's so unreasonable about that - why should a few loud people decide the tone of the whole forum?

[Mark E. Spliff]

Anyone reading this as a rivalry between a group of scientists versus pagans, or between comics versus kill-joys has read it all wrong. The elephant in the room here is that a remarkably well-defined clique has emerged, with group-norms, punishments and rewards - i.e. all the stuff that scientists like Philip Zimbardo have demonstrated with beautifully crafted experiments. The inevitable result is friction between those who define themselves as 'in' the group and the outsiders. Nothing unusual with this - it's a given on any chat-room or forum.

The exciting difference here is that in a few weeks, the members of this clique are going to spend a week together in the real world. Sweet mother of God - If I were Mike Leigh, I'd be camped next to them with notebook at the ready: the car-crash potential is enormous.

[jeffie]

maybe they're just messing around all the time, not trying to have a more sane discussion

Can different threads not have different levels of nonsense? I don't think see what's so unreasonable about that - why should a few loud people decide the tone of the whole forum?

They/we are. What's the problem with that.

What is odd is that some people can cross thread and others get all wound up. You obviously get wound up.