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Weather thread 2015


Swine_Glasto2014

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Oh, I'm certainly Weather God friendly. I obviously missed whatever weather-set-to happened last year creating the weather-schism... I thought we were all still worshipping under the same leaky weather-spire. I feel like I've turned up to a post-reformation church holding a golden statue of Christ.

My time-honoured way to appease the Weather Gods is to plan for 2007, pray for 2010, avoid the merest suggestion that a light shower can have a positive impact and spend at least a good three weeks feigning a good and proper understanding of meteorological pressure forecasts before admitting on the Tuesday night that I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen and prostrating myself at the mercy of the micro-climate.

Damn no upvotes left!

We do the same in the other place apart from the feigning understanding, we know that the Gods act in mysterious ways. We just hope and pray for :beach::beach:

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Aww, I'm sowwy benny.

You carry on over in that thread, I'm not judging or saying you shouldn't - it's not like I'm asking someone to close it or even posting complaints inside the thread, I'm just saying from the safety of a more 'weathery' thread that it's not what I was looking for/expected when I went in for the first time in a couple of years - I've purposefully kept myself to this thread rather than sullying the off-topic happiness inside the NFR/NFC thread with my weather paranoia... I'm just saying I'd like to be part of a weather thread that's actually about, you know, weather - I haven't really got time to keep up with a 1000 page thread that hasn't got a lot of weather talk in it. It's great for those inside, I'm sure.

Forums like this are big enough for many different approaches to conversation, just like Glastonbury is big enough for many different approaches to festival fun. Do it your way, don't worry about me! :curtsey:

ANYWAY - WEATHER

Walked through a thunderstorm on my way to work this morning - sitting in my wet clothes watching the blazing sun come out through the window. Must be Glastonbury season!

Well put! I've run out of upvotes

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The graph shows the total rainfall in mm forecasted by weather websites.

If the coloured lines are spread out there is a lot of variation between them, if they are close together there is little variation (they're all saying the same thing).

The minimum is the website forecasting the least rain, the maximum is the site forecasting the most. The minimum and maximum are not the same websites all the way through. Today, metcheck was the maximum, accuweather the minimum. I only have three websites that cover the whole of the festival at the moment but more will come through soon.

The green dotted line is a trendline showing whether the forecasts are tending to go down or up. It's not very meaningful at this early stage.

The grey dotted lines are the rainfall measured in Yeovil on the dates of previous festivals.

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Can this be transferred into a simple pie chart?

Something along the lines of this, which is a simple but effective way of describing our seasons:

chicagoweather.png

Yeah thats' more my intelligence :)

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The thing that's confused me the most (and I'm confused most of the time to start with, note) was what the bottom horizontal line represented - so that's much clearer now.

So on June 3rd, *all* weather sites said there would be no rain at all from wednesday to sunday?? That's amazing!

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So on June 3rd, *all* weather sites said there would be no rain at all from wednesday to sunday?? That's amazing!

At the moment there are only 3 sites I can find that currently forecast rainfall for the whole festival. Eventually that will reach 12+.

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