Best Weather?

[jeffie]

2010 All day every day. The sun needs as much prep as the rain though, sun cream, hat and keep hydrated. Jobs a good'un.

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[jeffie]

If people complain when it rains - then surely you can't complain when it's sunny for 5 days!!

I'll take 2010 again any day of the week!

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[LondonTom]

Being a moaner of 2010 being to hot straight after and now having experienced almost proper festival rain.....

I'd take 2010 any day of the week if it means being dry! (Bestival was pretty perfect last year, sunny but a nice breeze, stayed warmed at night to!)

[hjglasto]

Being a moaner of 2010 being to hot straight after and now having experienced almost proper festival rain.....

I'd take 2010 any day of the week if it means being dry! (Bestival was pretty perfect last year, sunny but a nice breeze, stayed warmed at night to!)

Bestival last year was the most perfect weather for a festival. Enough sun but cloudy in the morning and not overly hot.

[MikeEssex85]

2013 - perfect, end thread!

[incident]

Of my Glastonbury career:

2005 - fucking awful

2007 - fucking awful

2008 - fucking awful

2009 - ace

2010 - ace

2011 - ace

Think you might have a year or two mixed up?

From what I remember, 2008 and 2009 had very similar weather? A small amount of rain on one of the evenings, that the site coped with fairly well, and otherwise dry.

Also, while nowhere near the scale of 2007 (of course), 2011 was still a mudbath. It got better after that dismal Friday, but the site was already wrecked by then.

[01seb]

Only have been 2013, but that was pretty much spot on for me.

The rain on Thursday did make The Park very slippy underfoot, and I had to purchase a pair of wellies to wear Thursday evening and Friday. But the rain did wonders - meaning no dust, and there was a decent amount of cloud cover in the middle of the day for most of the weekend.

[kingcrawler]

Horses for courses.

Having to prepare, having to make sure I dont get too hammered to stop me from being dehydrated. Having to deal with feeling uncomfortable 24/7 and lethargic. Seeing fuck all bands and acts because the only place to cool down is a bar.

Or I put a coat on and go about my day.

You prefer one scenario, I prefer another. I wont try and change your mind, but you won't change mine either.

Dry is DEFINITELY preferable for me, but boiling hot? No thanks. Ill take last year every time.

Stone Roses Friday at heaton park was perfect weather for me. Dry. Sun came out, but cloud cover for shade.

Yeah I agree with this. Last year was my first so I can't really comment on 2010 or anything but I'd probably rather have last year than it be boiling hot for the full 5 days, not that I'm suggesting thunder storms every year!

Obviously a dry and fairly sunny festival is better but I don't see the appeal in it being really hot the whole time.

[The Placid Casual]

2013 was far, far better than 2014. Over two dozen people left the festival completely through the gate I was working on Thursday night due to the mud. We begged them to stay mind. I think there was one day where I remember watching Jake Bugg from the back of the Pyramid Stage (don't judge, I happened to bump into a friend I didn't know would be there at the time) and the weather was absolutely perfect. I'd just been to the cider bus and seeing an act on the pyramid in that blistering sunshine made it an awesome moment.

I also had the unpleasantness of being at Leeds 2013 festival, so I can sort of sympathise with those who went to Glastonbury in those horrible years, and I hope to god we don't get weather like that this year.

[glasto-worker]

Think you might have a year or two mixed up?

From what I remember, 2008 and 2009 had very similar weather? A small amount of rain on one of the evenings, that the site coped with fairly well, and otherwise dry.

Also, while nowhere near the scale of 2007 (of course), 2011 was still a mudbath. It got better after that dismal Friday, but the site was already wrecked by then.

yes you are correct - mud in 2007 - a bit of rain ' just before ' the start of 2008 and roughly the same in 2009 { but a bit wetter but nothing to write home about }

here is a shot of 2009 and you can tell by the sky it was fine weather - there was heavy rain Monday morning for a short period - started at 5.30am as we were loading the crew coaches but it ended at 5.45am and fine all the way back to London.

[Spindles]

If it is going to rain at Glastonbury the best time for it is Thursday evening. That way it doesn't affect the majority coming onsite on Wednesday nor dampen spirits and ground for the music overly much.

[LEDZEP66]

Just no rain. It doesn't matter if it's overcast and 20 degrees or not a cloud in the sky and 30 degrees. The best weather is NFRNFC.

When people ask me about Glastonbury the first thing that's pops in my head is 2010 being sat on the pyramid field on the Thursday with my mates drinking cold cider, can't beat it.

[LEDZEP66]

If it is going to rain at Glastonbury the best time for it is Thursday evening. That way it doesn't affect the majority coming onsite on Wednesday nor dampen spirits and ground for the music overly much.

I disagree. The worse time to rain for me is before the bands start. That's when I walk around, sit on the grass and chill. At least when the bands are on you can stand and watch them

[bennyboi]

Then don't get heat exhaustion.

Most of the people complaining about 2010 only have themselves to blame. It's generally possible to compensate for the blazing sun - lightweight loose fitting clothing, a sensible hat, drink lots of water, seek out shade in the middle of the day, etc etc. I burn at the slightest hint of sun and was absolutely fine that year because I came prepared for all scenarios. Apart from the very small number of people with medical reasons, I've got no sympathy.

Pissing rain is a lot harder to deal with because regardless of how much you prepare, or what you do, you're going to get wet, cold, and covered in mud.

Yeah I really don't get it, I understand if people are overweight or getting on a bit I'm sure things are a bit more difficult for them but I remember my mates missus during 2010, shes a big girl and as white as a sheet. She looked like a lobster within a few hours on the Wednesday but she had a daft Aussie style hat on and was constantly drinking water & she had the time of her life didn't hear her moan once!

Suncream, camel back & glade shade that will get you through.

With is 1,000,001 times better than wellies, coats & futile attempts to dry stuff in your muddy damp tent

[Bisque]

I really don't remember much rain last year except a bit on Friday.

[FuzzyDunlop]

I really don't remember much rain last year except a bit on Friday.

I was sat on the grass every day apart from saturday too.

[Keithy]

wanting anything other than glorious warm sunshine all day, every day is madness.

Shorts, t-shirt, sun hat, shades, G&T, friends, sat down chilling. That's the way Glastonbury should be.

Preferring wellies, waterproofs, trudging through mud, few places to sit down and relax.....nah don't get that.

[Bisque]

I was sat on the grass every day apart from saturday too.

2011 when it rained the first couple of days I was able to sit on the ground outside the Brothers Bar, might have sat on my coat though.

We just carried a few black bin bags around with us if we fancied a sit down, we definitely did this whilst waiting for people during Biffy on the slope.

[shoptildrop]

2011 when it rained the first couple of days I was able to sit on the ground outside the Brothers Bar, might have sat on my coat though.

We just carried a few black bin bags around with us if we fancied a sit down, we definitely did this whilst waiting for people during Biffy on the slope.

Biffy played 2010

[yellowsnow]

Sunny with a bit of a breeze. Not uncomfortably hot. No rain.

2013 was a good year for weather, even though it started with some rain.

[AdamWillingham]

Sundays weather was glorious last year.

2013 had lovely weather apart from a few showers on Thursday, it was my first glastonbury so was good that I experienced some rain and the scorching sun

[GlastoSimon]

Biffy played 2010

Third down on Pyramid in 2011

[grumpyhack]

I don't really worry about the weather, any more than the line up these days. Both give a year character. "That was the year when xxx played" or "That was the year of the great flood/scorching sun."

All that said, ideally no extremes of heat or rain. I quite like a drop of rain overnight to help settle the dust.

Our scoring system goes from Two wellies (very heavy rain and mud), through one one wellie (a bit squelchy in places) two boots (comfortable walking but a bit muddy), one boot (ideal walking), to one or two flip flops (excessively dry and dusty).

I'll settle for one or two boots.

[sime]

I like dry, sunny weather but not too hot and with a bit of rain every now and again to cool things down

[Leggins]

"Dust" sufferers, I don't mean this faseaciously but what exactly do you find difficult to deal with when the ground is dusty? And would you genuinely prefer mud instead? No offence intended.