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Weather 2016


Keithy

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This year didn't start too well with people being towed onsite! Just really felt relentless ..I don't mind mud usually! All part of the fun. Having the worry in the back of your mind of how you will get out...dont know why I'm so affected, I love Glastonbury whatever the conditions usually...

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I'd say the organisation hasn't helped this year, not much sawdust/chippings being put down away from the main stages which is surprising given state of the ground...wonder if any reason for this did they use them all by other stage before James! Lol ...and what's this about improved drainage over last few years? Seen pleanty of pools of standing water/watery mud around and it hasnt rained 'that' hard tbh

 

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The people as well, seen a couple of fights which is v.unusual. And the traffic control stewards seem.ineffectice, keep being pushed off paths into deep mud by a crowd off people all going on way not leaving any room.for the other direction forgetting it's meant to be a 2 way path. Came.close to flaring up.at someone.earlier and that's v rare....definitely wouldnt do this again.

 

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6 minutes ago, kalifire said:

How's the weather holding up? It looks pretty threatening on the webcam but that may be just dawn.

Bit of rain earlier but nothing too bad. I've managed to avoid most of it by coinsidence - being in a tent for Bat for Lashes when it started pissing it down earlier etc

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I can't say why, but I've never been so unbothered by the mud. The only time I fell over was almost deliberate, I was pulling such reckless shapes at Arcadia. I wore a white jacket all night on Friday and didn't get and mud on it. The springy ground kept my feet going all through the festival.

Plus I only got rained on once and thanks to new raincoat and umbrella hat.

I enjoyed myself. Ok, getting my boots on and off was a bit of a ball ache, but due to sage advice from this forum, I had contingency plans for needing a wee in the night.

It was good!

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In review, I think the forecasts where reasonable and the weather itself wasn't bad at all. What we need to remember for future years is that rain in the weeks before the festival will lead to muddy conditions no matter how dry the Spring.

Anyway, had a great time and looking forward to 2017.

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We were actually pretty lucky with the weather in an odd way, barely rained during the day times and we narrowly missed some really heavy daytime bursts by a few miles. 

If we'd missed the Friday and Saturday am showers as well it would have recovered in a lot of areas.

Not sure what Eavis is on saying this is the worst year for mud. Nowhere close to 1997, 1998 or 2007. 

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Yeah, there has been more mud and rain in other years, but this year was about the worst stodgy mud I can remember. It was similar in 97 I think when it dried out on the Saturday, with huge effort required to get anywhere.

Certainly the worst chaos this year in the car parks and campervan fields.

One of the tractor boys told us that they had logistics problems with the metal tracks - not enough was delivered and not enough machines for laying it, leading to churning and access problems around the car parks / CV.

 

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This year was tiring as there was mud / bog from getting in right up until getting out. Other years it's been OK for one of the other, even in 2007. 

The rain over the actual 5 days was fairly OK really. Shame the site was ruined and water table up before we even all got there. 

 

Oh well! 

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Got stuck in the mud bad at Avalon inn... Going over the bridge against the tide of people trying to use that field as a cut through to the SE corner... 

I remember a girl singing a song about wiggling your toes and taking care as mud was at sticky... As well as a lovely bloke who was willing me to lift my boots out by lifting my toes.

 

never had a fest before where it's been 100% wellies the entire time (been going since 09)

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36 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I enjoyed planting my boots deep into the mud and doing a hip shimmy. I could pull off moves that would normally have had me on my arse, especially after all the cider I'd consumed!

Haha yeah was stuck during Stayin Alive (jarred on wine) and was doing the same.

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