Weather thread 2015

[ghandi]

What? No! Stop accepting mud!

For shame, for shame..

 

Take the Cersi walk of shame!

[A Guy Called Matt]

Did anyone else see the BBC long range forecast last night just before 10pm?

 

I ask as there is lots of positivity here today  -I like that - the forecast for next week showed the jet stream right over us north to south with lower pressure dominent.

 

Please tell me they are wrong. They have to be wrong.

[big__phil]

To put how much rainfall we're forecasted for the next 10 days in to perspective here are the accumulations of precipitation by area over said period....Hardly a drop.

 

Stick

[Untz]

I'm not optimistic about the weather. Sure, it won't be pissing down every day, but it could be grey, a bit too cold and just generally miserable. At least if it's about 23 degrees on a nice sunny day any slight sprinkling of rain won't have an effect on the ground.

[JoeyT]

I take it the numbers are mm Joey?

Sorry, I am shit at weather charts

 

I don't know haha.

 

Hopefully mm because somewhere is getting 76 cm of rain in 10 days which will mean they'll need an ark won't they?!

[mungo57]

I don't know haha.

 

Hopefully mm because somewhere is getting 76 cm of rain in 10 days which will mean they'll need an ark won't they?!

this is a good point!

[bennyhana22]

I am, like most, an obsessive follower of the thread, excitely convinced by any positive forecasts and eschewing any that don't sound so good.

 

But I am, perhaps naively, a great believer in the BBC Weather website which, in my experience, is often eerily accurate - even to the hour.

 

Accepting that we are still a week away, it currently has a picture of cloudy but dry, 18deg high, 12deg low for Wed-Fri of next week.

 

so, at this stage I feel confident for dryness at least for the first half of the festival. I think a good start can offset a poorer 2nd half, and I still have an inherent feeling that it's all gonna be OK...

 

Just sayin'!

 

 

Ben 

[alframsey]

Did anyone else see the BBC long range forecast last night just before 10pm?

 

I ask as there is lots of positivity here today  -I like that - the forecast for next week showed the jet stream right over us north to south with lower pressure dominent.

 

Please tell me they are wrong. They have to be wrong.

I thought low pressure was good?

[TheNewUnion]

Low pressure is bad

[Swine_Glasto2014]

I thought low pressure was good?

Great

[Wallace]

I thought low pressure was good?

 

From the googles..

1. A low pressure system is a whirling mass of warm, moist air that generally brings stormy weather with strong winds. When viewed from above, winds spiral into a low-pressure center in a counterclockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere.

[PabloCoke]

I'm not optimistic about the weather. Sure, it won't be pissing down every day, but it could be grey, a bit too cold and just generally miserable. At least if it's about 23 degrees on a nice sunny day any slight sprinkling of rain won't have an effect on the ground.

Grey and cold is fine and and dandy if its not raining.

All that matters is no mud and really not loads of mud.

[JoeyT]

Pedmills will be here soon with a new graph for us all to foam over.

 

I'm predicting it to be better than it was yesterday afternoon.

 

[majormajormajor]

I don't think the latest run is particularly good. Potential to absolutely piss down from the Friday onwards.

 

But yes, we may get a dry Weds/Thurs which will be nice.

[JoeyT]

"The main message from the output today is again one of High pressure remaining largely dominant across the UK in the shape of a ridge from the SW. There are signs of a slackening of the NW flow through the weekend and start to next week as pressure leaks away somewhat and this might promote a few more showers with time but no major breakdown looks likely as High pressure still looks like rebuilding later perhaps more favourably in position to allow rather warmer conditions to develop across a wider portion of the UK. So not much else to say this morning with changes just small from day to day and area to area so with some confidence this morning I can say that there is a lot of dry and very useable conditions to come for most and while not excessively hot at anytime some reasonable and  comfortably warm weather is likely for many with just the chance from time to time of a shower or two to dampen the ground more especially in the North."

[teamsofa]

"The main message from the output today is again one of High pressure remaining largely dominant across the UK in the shape of a ridge from the SW. There are signs of a slackening of the NW flow through the weekend and start to next week as pressure leaks away somewhat and this might promote a few more showers with time but no major breakdown looks likely as High pressure still looks like rebuilding later perhaps more favourably in position to allow rather warmer conditions to develop across a wider portion of the UK. So not much else to say this morning with changes just small from day to day and area to area so with some confidence this morning I can say that there is a lot of dry and very useable conditions to come for most and while not excessively hot at anytime some reasonable and  comfortably warm weather is likely for many with just the chance from time to time of a shower or two to dampen the ground more especially in the North."

Does this not sound pretty much bob on?!

[pauladam]

nothing worse than a slackening of the NW flow!

[SonOfTroyMcClure]

nothing worse than a slackening of the NW flow!

 

Yeah I absolutely cannot stand it when the NW flow slackens. Really grinds my gears.

[1waveydavey]

"The main message from the output today is again one of High pressure remaining largely dominant across the UK in the shape of a ridge from the SW. There are signs of a slackening of the NW flow through the weekend and start to next week as pressure leaks away somewhat and this might promote a few more showers with time but no major breakdown looks likely as High pressure still looks like rebuilding later perhaps more favourably in position to allow rather warmer conditions to develop across a wider portion of the UK. So not much else to say this morning with changes just small from day to day and area to area so with some confidence this morning I can say that there is a lot of dry and very useable conditions to come for most and while not excessively hot at anytime some reasonable and  comfortably warm weather is likely for many with just the chance from time to time of a shower or two to dampen the ground more especially in the North."

Where is this report from?

[JoeyT]

Where is this report from?

Netweather forum.

These guys know their onions.

[1waveydavey]

Netweather forum.

These guys know their onions.

Got it, so this sounds pretty good I think?

[mike46]

Surely with the sacrifice of Grohl the Glasto weather Gods will look upon us kindly?

[Tacopowell]

I come here several times a day to watch the panic and despair be replaced with Joy and hysteria within a matter of another unscientifically proven post,
It's become a rollercoaster, I want to stop but I can't.....

Edited June 17, 2015 by Tacopowell

[The Nal]

what was the forecast like for last year just out of interest on these sites? did they get it spot on or was it a disappointment? i cant remember

 

They were completely wrong up until Sunday/Monday

[wetflame]

They were completely wrong up until Sunday/Monday

 

And yet I can't tear myself away from this thread. Ha. Whatever happens, happens. We'll have a blinder of a festival regardless (unless my tent gets flooded in which case I'll get the hump).