Weather thread 2015

[JoeyT]

Nal clearly bunking off school the day the Maths teacher said "Today were going to learn about Probability"

He uses negativity towards the weather as some sort of reverse psychology.

It's quite impresssive as I can't remember a year he wasn't like this.

I imagine in 2010 he was wondering around the festival in full wet weather gear just as a sacrifice.

[filmguy]

Jetstreams in the right place at the moment so it doesn't look like we're going to get lots of rain in the next week or so

[Tacopowell]

"I predict it will be a mixed bag"
Is pretty much all any meteorologist can say at the moment.

I personally predict that this will be the case, 2008? Sunny with a bit of rain/mud but nothing horrendous.

[The Nal]

I imagine in 2010 he was wondering around the festival in full wet weather gear just as a sacrifice.

"We got Charlie crawling all over us here.... I need napalm laid down across the railway tracks, stat! NOW Goddammit"

[pedmills]

[Ted Dansons Wig]

He uses negativity towards the weather as some sort of reverse psychology.

It's quite impresssive as I can't remember a year he wasn't like this.

I imagine in 2010 he was wondering around the festival in full wet weather gear just as a sacrifice.

He's from Dublin. The only time he ever sees the sun is for 1 weekend every June.

Edited June 4, 2015 by Ted Dansons Wig

[fightoffyour]

These are excellent, but could you also post a version of the graphs without the high lines for 2014 and 2007 because it's squashing the rest of it

[pedmills]

These are excellent, but could you also post a version of the graphs without the high lines for 2014 and 2007 because it's squashing the rest of it

Is that okay?

[Vanderlyle]

So what's this then.. all the graphs saying that we're moving towards zero rain?

[pedmills]

So what's this then.. all the graphs saying that we're moving towards zero rain?

At the moment they are...

[Jonny Hobbs]

LOVE the graphs - top effort.

Edited June 4, 2015 by Jonny Hobbs

[mjsell]

What's everyone's perfect festival conditions?

Id have to go with: in the mid 20s and mostly cloudy with outbreaks of sun for a couple of hours in the arvo, maybe a light sprinkling in the early hours of a morning or two.

Is this too much to ask!!

[Padgey]

What's everyone's perfect festival conditions?

Id have to go with: in the mid 20s and mostly cloudy with outbreaks of sun for a couple of hours in the arvo, maybe a light sprinkling in the early hours of a morning or two.

Is this too much to ask!!

Sun, Sun, Sun, cooler in the mornings until about 10 then slap on the cream and away we go.

[fightoffyour]

Is that okay?

Brilliant, many thanks!

[donshakey]

Sun, Sun, Sun, cooler in the mornings until about 10 then slap on the cream and away we go.

Thats all well and good unless you don't get back to your tent until 9am then can't sleep because your tent has turned into a sauna.

[doogie]

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation would suggest we're heading towards more predominantly dry years (like we had until the mid 90s), rather than the wetter years we've had more recently.

I hope so anyway!

[sloseph]

i'd prefer highs of low mid teens to high 20's anything over that and i'll be struggling

the main thing I want is it to be dry

[CaledonianGonzo]

Thats all well and good unless you don't get back to your tent until 9am then can't sleep because your tent has turned into a sauna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_blanket

[ghostdancer1]

What's everyone's perfect festival conditions?

Id have to go with: in the mid 20s and mostly cloudy with outbreaks of sun for a couple of hours in the arvo, maybe a light sprinkling in the early hours of a morning or two.

Is this too much to ask!!

low 20s, mostly cloudy but with outbreaks of sun, no wind, no rain.

if it's too sunny/hot, morning sleep is impossible due to heat, the nighttime is clear so very cold, and you're walking around for 5 days covered in a layer of suncream and dust, drinking water to keep hydrated.

and obviously, wind is shit for outdoor stages, and rain is just shit in general.

a nice still, warm, dry, cloudy day for me, thanks.

Edited June 4, 2015 by ghostdancer1

[Jie Bie]

How accurate were the rainfall predictions last year? Did we know we were likely to get 40+ mm of rain on the Tuesday before the festival?

[Lou1983]

What is the story with that canoe? I've always wondered as the only logical reason for it is that it was brought in after the flooding. But to do that, in those conditions would take some effort. Is it a publicity shot set up by a paper!? I'd love to know!

Often wondered this, I reckon it's came from somewhere on the SE side of the fest, they've got all sorts of random stuff up there!

[Stretlow]

Nice weather is of no use to us at the minute.

I know that it doesn't work in terms of probabilities, but nevertheless getting the rain out of the way just now is far preferable to the dreaded possibility of peaking too soon, when you end up looking at what you could have won from the perspective of a Worthy Farm that looks like the Somme.

Its basically rained for the entire month of May, how much more do you want!!

[CaledonianGonzo]

Only if there's so much standing water that you need a canoe to get around can you be sure that the dust will be kept down.

[pedmills]

How accurate were the rainfall predictions last year? Did we know we were likely to get 40+ mm of rain on the Tuesday before the festival?

On the tuesday the average of all the websites was 19.5mm, and one website (Weather Outlook) was predicting 42.6mm, so we did know it was going to be rainy.

In contrast the average on the tuesday before in 2013 was something like 3mm, which was pretty close to the actual figure. So we knew that year that it would be mainly dry.

Edited June 4, 2015 by pedmills

[Jie Bie]

On the tuesday the average of all the websites was 19.5mm, and one website (Weather Outlook) was predicting 42.6mm, so we did know it was going to be rainy.

In contrast the average on the tuesday before in 2013 was something like 3mm, which was pretty close. So we knew that year that it would be mainly dry.

Cheers - from the sounds of that we should have a reasonable idea of what is in store for us before we set off.