Weather thread 2015

[SteveTLizard]

That Friday was brilliant Biffy, Morrissey, Chase & Status then Primal Scream back to back in the pissing rain, absolutely Kenny Sansomed. Had a great night.

 

I'll see your Kenny Sansom and raise you Bobby Gillespie

[cmcarpenter]

Maybe the misery had to do with Bono rather than the weather....

[Guest]

Went to visit my Aunt this evening. Checked her seaweed as usual (clammy) and got talking about this thread. She's 93 and lived in London during the Blitz. She said they used to prey for rain each night so that the German bombers wouldn't be able to target them so easily through the clouds. Brought this thread into some perspective for me to be honest. Anyway she hopes it will be a sunny week for us all.

[frostypaw]

As long as the Friday is not like the hell of the U2 year... That was the moment when I was so cold and wet I was the closest to phoning my parents and getting them to pick me up, take me home for a hot shower and then drop me back to the site...

On a side note, for those who say 2014 'wasn't that bad'... No, on the grand scale of things, it wasn't. But when you have to send your other half out to buy new wellies because the rain was so heavy it went inside your old ones and they are sodden and you are concerned about trench foot...oh and all the stages have to be SHUT DOWN because of the storm... That's pretty bad

You almost got your parents to pick you up so you could have a shower, and some more unbearable rain forced you to send your fella out to buy you things you didn't need?

C'mon. Get a grip folks

[FuzzyDunlop]

You almost got your parents to pick you up so you could have a shower, and some more unbearable rain forced you to send your fella out to buy you things you didn't need?

C'mon. Get a grip folks

Exactly.

[Lady muck]

Has Jackone just been relaying what's going on in our heads? Maybe sunny, maybe rainy, god help us, no it's sunny, hoorah! Etc etc etc......

[jeffie]

I decided not to bite at the lift home etc....

[stopwn1981]

As long as the Friday is not like the hell of the U2 year... That was the moment when I was so cold and wet I was the closest to phoning my parents and getting them to pick me up, take me home for a hot shower and then drop me back to the site...

On a side note, for those who say 2014 'wasn't that bad'... No, on the grand scale of things, it wasn't. But when you have to send your other half out to buy new wellies because the rain was so heavy it went inside your old ones and they are sodden and you are concerned about trench foot...oh and all the stages have to be SHUT DOWN because of the storm... That's pretty bad

Bang on!

[stopwn1981]

Not sure if latest run better or worse - Saturday might be shitter.

[briddj]

Not sure if latest run better or worse - Saturday might be shitter.

 

Think it is even, as there is definitely a bit more rain around on Friday, but Sunday is now dry. And temps have a max of 21 pretty much every day (apart from Sat when it's 19).

 

Just need that precipitation to nudge up the country on the Friday and we could be home and, quite literally, dry.

 

Monday morning looks horrendous for those working on the site though.

Edited June 19, 2015 by briddj

[frostypaw]

Monday morning looks horrendous for those working on the site though.

Where is this 'horrendous' coming from?

This monday looks wet, that's all. We have to get this exaggeration under control. 50mm is horrendous, 25 pretty damn nasty, 12 a shock, 6 some rain and 3 a shower - they're looking at maybe 5.

If every time precipitation falls it's disaster and horrendous then we'll all have a nervous breakdown before the festival. Which would be a shame as it looks pretty good to me:

[willutalk]

The trend is finally pointing downwards!

Im shitting Pyramid Stages now! And that's a good thing.

[bamber]

I'm packing the flip flops. It's not every year I pack the flip flops.

[gaxsa]

Yay !! Waking up to a much better outlook

[Glastoboy]

Still looking like it could go either way but increasingly looking like we could be getting the full gamut of British weather this year. They key thing though is it should stay relatively warm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05yn66f

[richy24]

Things sounding promising on net weather

"Quite good agreement on a spell of mostly dry weather from Tuesday through to next Saturday which would be the best effort so far this season with fairly warm air over the UK offering temperatures quite widely into the low twenties, possible mid to high twenties if we can draw up even warmer air from the south/south west.

Now next Sunday is the breakdown day according to the ECM, will that survive or will the Atlantic trough just keep barrelling around with no meaningful eastward progression."

[FuzzyDunlop]

 high twenties

."

 

God no.

[spursfan77]

BBC now showing some rain for the Sunday but that's it.

[stopwn1981]

00z pushing that low back again...fingers crossed!!!

[MEGABOWL]

[FuzzyDunlop]

Just dry. The only time the weather has got me down at Glastonbury have been 2010 (saturday) and 2011 (sunday).

 

DRY is obviously preferable, but not high twenties.

 

It's from now I start believing the forecasts.

Edited June 20, 2015 by FuzzyDunlop

[richy24]

BBC now showing some rain for the Sunday but that's it.

Not for Pilton - doesn't show rain until Monday

[Starks]

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/gallery/image/5048-sat/

 

[JoeyT]

Christ my head is banging.

This good news is easing the pain though.

[FuzzyDunlop]

We're fucked