Weather thread 2015

[Festivalyeah]

What happens if people's tents do get flooded? Is sleeping in your car in the car park totally out of the equation ?

[mjsell]

I'm standing by my theory that nothing can be as bad in terms of rain than when I went to Oxegen festival in 2010. The day we got to Dublin was dry, every day thereafter was a non-stop consistent deluge. Looking back I have no idea how we survived.

One of my friends lost a welly on the second day and had to make do with only one for the rest of the weekend. I'm still surprised to this day how he didn't get trench foot

Edited June 2, 2015 by mjsell

[alframsey]

2011 was the year the weather affected my festival the most, so anything better than that would be fine imo.

2010 affected my festival more than any other, I'd take rain all day every day over the ridiculous heat of 2010.

[tom22]

You've just broke his website!...

lets try that again

http://www.gavsweathervids.com/month-ahead-2015.php (working for me now)

[big__phil]

2010 affected my festival more than any other, I'd take rain all day every day over the ridiculous heat of 2010.

After Bestival in 2008(?), I would take anything other than that kind of rain. Never seen anything like it. Heavy rain, all day, evey day. It wasn't even mud by the end, just standing water everywhere. I never apreciated how hard it is to stand all day, when there is nowhere/nothing to sit on for the wet.

Even the main stage sunk!

[st dan]

The weather has been a bag of shite since the Tories were re-elected. This is a fact.

Some may say this is merely a coincidence ... I would disagree.

Edited June 2, 2015 by st dan

[Spindles]

Check any video from the miners strike and it was either grey and cold or bucketing it down. I reckon you are right.

[pedmills]

THE EXCEL GRAPHS HAVE BEGUN!

All of the weather websites will be included in this so don't waste your time looking them up. At this early stage the forecasts are essentially worthless but it's interesting to see how it changes from day to day.

I don't know what the actual rainfall was in 2013 and 2014, but the forecasts on the Tuesday before the festival were 3.2mm and 19.5mm of rain, respectively.

So if its going to be a 'good' year we should expect to see the sites to average out around the 2013 figure or below, and a 'bad' year would be up around 2014 or higher.

At the moment the average is 6.7mm, which would be pretty decent, but it'll fluctuate a lot until about a week before the festival.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Oh now we're talking...!

[Stretlow]

THE EXCEL GRAPHS HAVE BEGUN!

All of the weather websites will be included in this so don't waste your time looking them up. At this early stage the forecasts are essentially worthless but it's interesting to see how it changes from day to day.

I don't know what the actual rainfall was in 2013 and 2014, but the forecasts on the Tuesday before the festival were 3.2mm and 19.5mm of rain, respectively.

So if its going to be a 'good' year we should expect to see the sites to average out around the 2013 figure or below, and a 'bad' year would be up around 2014 or higher.

At the moment the average is 6.7mm, which would be pretty decent, but it'll fluctuate a lot until about a week before the festival.

Where has this sheet come from mate?

[TokiDoki]

I don't know what the actual rainfall was in 2013 and 2014, but the forecasts on the Tuesday before the festival were 3.2mm and 19.5mm of rain, respectively.

It would be interesting to compare the actual amount of rain to the forecasts just before the festival too. In 2013 the rain on the Thursday evening was under-forecast all round, and it ended up being more like 10-15mm if I remember correctly.

Not sure about 2014.

[SonOfTroyMcClure]

Yeah, a year of heavy claggy mud. If the weather is dry in the run up the mud is thin, runny and slippy on top of a hard surface. If the weather is wet it turns to the claggy stuff that sticks to your boots and sucks at your feet as you walk making it more tiring.

2011 was my first year and I have vivid memories of the entrance to The Park resembling a war zone. Lost wellies/shoes everywhere, people getting stuck constantly. I think they had to close it at one point and divert everyone to the other entrance?

[pedmills]

Where has this sheet come from mate?

I made it. I have been keeping track of what the various websites have been forecasting - only three have any rain predictions for the whole of the festival so far:

[mrpman]

For me most important thing is temperature at the moment.

It's very cold at night at the moment so I'm hooping the better temperatures towards end of the week hold their level a bit.

Of course I don't want rain either, but unless your only year is 2010 we've all coped in the past few years.

[pedmills]

It would be interesting to compare the actual amount of rain to the forecasts just before the festival too. In 2013 the rain on the Thursday evening was under-forecast all round, and it ended up being more like 10-15mm if I remember correctly.

Not sure about 2014.

I think they underestimated 2014 too. Regardless, there was a big difference between the 2013 and 2014 forecasts and a big difference between the weather in 2013 and 2014, so we can at least see which year this year's forecast resembles more.

[Abster]

After Bestival in 2008(?), I would take anything other than that kind of rain. Never seen anything like it. Heavy rain, all day, evey day. It wasn't even mud by the end, just standing water everywhere. I never apreciated how hard it is to stand all day, when there is nowhere/nothing to sit on for the wet.

Even the main stage sunk!

That was the year they had a '30,000 freaks under the sea' as the theme! I heard about that luckily I wasn't there

[Stretlow]

I made it. I have been keeping track of what the various websites have been forecasting - only three have any rain predictions for the whole of the festival so far:

Ahh apologies, I thought they were from another source.

Good work

[Untz]

THE EXCEL GRAPHS HAVE BEGUN!

I am way more aroused excited by this than I should be. That'a a pretty nice graph you've got going there, I'm just hoping that trend line starts to change direction in the next few days.

[Untz]

For me most important thing is temperature at the moment.

It's very cold at night at the moment so I'm hooping the better temperatures towards end of the week hold their level a bit.

Of course I don't want rain either, but unless your only year is 2010 we've all coped in the past few years.

While I do like to lounge around in the warmth in the day time, I'm not too bothered by the temperature at night. Alcohol + dancing + good quality sleeping bag +/- hat will keep you sorted. Rain on the other hand just shits everything up.

[SonOfTroyMcClure]

Does anyone know how many mms of rain we actually got last year? As people have said, it was vastly underestimated, but does anyone know the numbers?

[justperfect]

A shit load (not scientifically accurate)

[CaledonianGonzo]

IT KEEPS THE DUST DOWN!

[mrpman]

While I do like to lounge around in the warmth in the day time, I'm not too bothered by the temperature at night. Alcohol + dancing + good quality sleeping bag +/- hat will keep you sorted. Rain on the other hand just shits everything up.

Yes I know but it's nice to just completely relax on a grassy hillock occasionally away from the sweatiness.

I'm extremely capable of generating tons of my own hot air dancing round like a loon but it is bitter at the moment!

[CaledonianGonzo]

Difficult to relax on a grassy hillock if they've all been washed away.

[Spindles]

Thursday afternoon 2011 the hill above the park was an oasis of dry clean grass above the quagmire below, the sun was out and it was glorious up there. People kept arriving and it filled up with people just happy and grateful to be able to park their arses, have a drink and a smoke. Was a really good atmosphere up there and was the most people I've seen there outside of the Radiohead/Pulp sets.