Weather thread 2015

[Migraine]

Sorry I was away yesterday. Here is today's graph:

The average (7.6mm) hasn't changed much over the last couple of days.

Can you extend the Y axis so the curves look less biblical?

[blackg1000]

I'm going to ask a silly question, is it going to rain?

[tullux]

WTF???

http://www.wetter.com/wetter_aktuell/wettervorhersage/16_tagesvorhersage/?id=GB0KK1453

[timmyno7]

http://www.norton-radstockweather.co.uk/Model-Analysis(2859336).htm- looks alright eh!

[mjsell]

Who would have thought that a day of panic regarding pedmills' absence has resulting in nothing really changing (figures-wise). I was expecting a catastrophic return..  

[Untz]

WTF???

http://www.wetter.com/wetter_aktuell/wettervorhersage/16_tagesvorhersage/?id=GB0KK1453

 

I'm not trusting any forecast from somewhere called "wetter". 

[The Placid Casual]

I'm not trusting any forecast from somewhere called "wetter". 

Sounds like The Nal set that site up.

[Untz]

Who would have thought that a day of panic regarding pedmills' absence has resulting in nothing really changing (figures-wise). I was expecting a catastrophic return..  

 

He might be lying just to spare us the grief.

[devonhammer]

we were about to send out search parties. they would have been terrible, terrible, pointless search parties - completely ill-prepared due to the lack of a chart telling them succinctly whether to pack wellies or sunlotion. 

 

and we'd have been without The Nal because he's busy sourcing two pandas to go in his ark.

[ltfckimbo]

Sorry I was away yesterday. Here is today's graph:

The average (7.6mm) hasn't changed much over the last couple of days.

So the average is pretty much where it started and the trend is flattening out.

[willutalk]

Sorry I was away yesterday. Here is today's graph:

The average (7.6mm) hasn't changed much over the last couple of days.

So this graph suggests that we'll get a fraction of the rainfall that we had in 2007 and 2014? 2011 wasn't too bad if I remember correctly nor 2009. Slightly muddy here and there but overall not too bad.

2014 was actually pretty damn awful wasn't it then?

[Untz]

Sounds like The Nal set that site up.

 

I guess apocalypseweather.com was already taken.

[Hugh Jass]

The tabloids are still predicting mudbaths, whilst the BBC is just showing white cloud over Pilton for five days.

 

Are we doomed?

[Keva]

Are we doomed?

 

We're going to Glastonbury. No-one is 'doomed'.

[Swine_Glasto2014]

I must of been at a different festival, 2014 wasn't bad

[stephos83]

WTF???

http://www.wetter.com/wetter_aktuell/wettervorhersage/16_tagesvorhersage/?id=GB0KK1453

 

I'm looking at it and it looks fine - sunny and warm...is it just me, or have they updated?

[ghandi]

So this graph suggests that we'll get a fraction of the rainfall that we had in 2007 and 2014? 2011 wasn't too bad if I remember correctly nor 2009. Slightly muddy here and there but overall not too bad.

2014 was actually pretty damn awful wasn't it then?

 

being very slow on the uptake , i.e thick , I've only just understood this graph! Doh , looking not so bad.

[Ohinever]

Can't someone give Bill some Prozac or something?

[Vanderlyle]

I must of been at a different festival, 2014 wasn't bad

 

The numbers for 2014 is misleading because about 4 days worth or rain fell in about 30 minutes at one point (Saturday afternoon was it?). But that rain largely just washed away, and the site was ok after a few hours.

[The Nal]

2014 was bad enough. Thursday was fucking miserable all day. Then we got a motherfucker of a downpour on Friday and it pissed rain for loads of Saturday.

[Mezhyp1]

2014 was bad enough. Thursday was fucking miserable all day. Then we got a motherfucker of a downpour on Friday and it pissed rain for loads of Saturday.

Don't you like the rain Nal?

[Untz]

I'm looking at it and it looks fine - sunny and warm...is it just me, or have they updated?

 

It's a fairly good forecast up, but they're still called wetter so I'm not trusting them.

 

They need to swap the Friday and Monday forecasts too. I'd rather not be sitting on a coach in 28 degree weather. Torture.

[pedmills]

So this graph suggests that we'll get a fraction of the rainfall that we had in 2007 and 2014? 2011 wasn't too bad if I remember correctly nor 2009. Slightly muddy here and there but overall not too bad.

2014 was actually pretty damn awful wasn't it then?

 

Personally I think 2011 was just as bad as 2014, which makes me think the figures for previous years are a bit dodgy. But then 2011's rain was on already soggy ground so that might explain it.

[briddj]

Personally I think 2011 was just as bad as 2014, which makes me think the figures for previous years are a bit dodgy. But then 2011's rain was on already soggy ground so that might explain it.

 

2011 was horrendous for mud until in started to dry out later on Saturday.

[Dog Burger]

Personally I think 2011 was just as bad as 2014, which makes me think the figures for previous years are a bit dodgy. But then 2011's rain was on already soggy ground so that might explain it.

It just underlines that total rainfall isn't an adequate indicator of how 'bad' the conditions were. To use a sporting analogy, it's like saying a defender is good because he makes lots of tackles - it doesn't paint the full picture. 

2011, in my mind was a bit of a grim struggle - rain from day one, pretty cold and muddy until Saturday or Sunday. Getting around was difficult and I was cold and soggy from before I even got through the gate. 

2014, there were some big storms when a lot of rain fell in a short period of time - like in 2005, too - but overall personally it didn't feel like a struggle at all.