Weather 2016

[The Nal]

There was a load of mud after the storm on Thursday night/Friday morning in 09 but it dried exceptionally fast from mid afternoon.

[balti-pie]

48 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

2011 was wet.  2014 was mixed IMO, but still the 2nd worst of all the ones I've been to.  Last year and '09 were pretty similar with the odd cloudburst but no real, proper mud.  And we all remember 2010.  I love 2010.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that last year was probably slightly better than average, 2014 was slightly worse.

If you went in 97, 98 and 2005, then 2014 was a beautiful exercise in virtually dry festival glory  

Edited May 17, 2016 by balti-pie

[Brave Sir Robin]

14 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

If you went in 97, 98 and 2005, then 2014 was a beautiful exercise in virtually dry festival glory  

Yep, some people seem to have very high expectations for the weather!! Having first been in 98 and also present in 05, every year 09 onwards has been fine! 11 wasn't great but was forecast and was tolerable.

[kh24]

Agreed that there's obviously a lot more going on than just sheer rainfall amounts which makes the experience/perception of the rain differ year on year. I've been trying to remember the weather for most years and this is my ranking from best-worst:

2010 - no explanation needed

2008 - sunny on arrival, a heavy shower on either Weds or Thurs evening, showers on Fri during the day interspersed with Sun until Elbow played on the Other Stage and then sunny with cloud and light breezes for pretty much the rest of weekend

2013 - mainly heavy downpours on Thurs afternoon, from what I remember? It was definitely sunny a fair bit

2014 - weird, that although this ranks quite low I don't remember the weather being a huge issue? - I remember the stages closing of course but it didn't really force me to change plans much

2011 - grim arrival, grim Friday

2005 - if I'd been one of the people with a flooded tent I would have ranked this the worst I expect.  

2007 - ugh.

Only really one bad year (2007), and a couple of other periods (Thurs night/Friday in 2005 and Friday evening in 2011) where I've had to adjust plans a bit due to weather or I remember being really fed up. 2005 was my first year and if I was ranking according to 'favourite festival' my order would be pretty different  

[VolumetricFox]

2016 Likely to be hottest on record - with some science to explain why.

http://theconversation.com/2016-is-likely-to-be-the-worlds-hottest-year-heres-why-59378

 

[4AssedMonkey]

3 minutes ago, nodolphie said:

2016 Likely to be hottest on record - with some science to explain why.

http://theconversation.com/2016-is-likely-to-be-the-worlds-hottest-year-heres-why-59378

 

Interesting.  Liked the graphic spiral about the average temperatures.

That said, El Nino events are also associated with heavy storms and wet weather aren't they?  In this Country at least.  The last thing Glastonbury needs is a week of stifling humidity and monsoons!

[Chaaaris123]

2011 was my first year and I remember becoming a complete mud monster in the queue. Then showers off and on for most of the festival and a beautifully hot Sunday to finish it off with.

2013 was pretty much sun all the way through apart from Thursday afternoon when there was a bit of a downpour.

2014 I don't remember being that bad either. I was napping in my tent when they shut down the Pyramid stage because of the storm then made it out for Lily Allen when the sun came out. Then it hammered down again and I remember legging it to West Holts to watch Jurassic 5 but apart from that I don't remember much rain.

2015 again I remember one big downpour on Friday I think but apart from that it was fairly good most of the time.

I'm hoping for sun and a light breeze every day this year. A girl can dream right?

[Padgey]

18 minutes ago, nodolphie said:

2016 Likely to be hottest on record - with some science to explain why.

http://theconversation.com/2016-is-likely-to-be-the-worlds-hottest-year-heres-why-59378

 

We were going to have the worst winter ever weren't we! pffft.

[simonizer]

50 minutes ago, Padgey said:

We were going to have the worst winter ever weren't we! pffft.

We did have a long winter. Long and very wet .bad doesn't  have to mean cold . 

 

Edited May 18, 2016 by simonizer

[The Nal]

3 minutes ago, simonizer said:

Long and very wet

Yarp Yarp!

[stuartbert two hats]

On 5/17/2016 at 10:43 AM, The Nal said:

There was a load of mud after the storm on Thursday night/Friday morning in 09 but it dried exceptionally fast from mid afternoon.

Wait, what? A balanced *whisper it* even positive comment about the weather from The Nal??  You're losing your touch!

Edited May 18, 2016 by stuartbert two hats

[stuartbert two hats]

On 5/17/2016 at 11:03 AM, balti-pie said:

If you went in 97, 98 and 2005, then 2014 was a beautiful exercise in virtually dry festival glory  

I was rained on more in 2014 than 2005.  Admittedly the rain that fell in 2005 was very substantial, but it was just the once.

[bellboy]

Nothing worse than arriving when it is muddy.  Arrived Wednesday late evening in 2011.  Turned around the corner (where they have the zig zag queing system) at gate A and that bit where it is fenced either side that runs up to the gate  was just, wall to wall 100m of ankle deep mud where several thousands had gone before us!  There was no one else around and we just looked at each other, all loaded up with kit, with that "WTF - how we going to manage this?" look. 

[The Nal]

8 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Wait, what? A balanced *whisper it* even positive comment about the weather from The Nal??  You're losing your touch!

Just stating historical fact. Just as its a fact that its going to rain this year. All depends on how much.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, The Nal said:

Just stating historical fact. Just as its a fact that its going to rain this year. All depends on how much.

You're almost certainly right.  But it didn't in 2003 or 2010.  Not one drop.

[The Nal]

3 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You're almost certainly right.  But it didn't in 2003 or 2010.  Not one drop.

It rained on the Sunday in 2003.

[blackred]

1 minute ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You're almost certainly right.  But it didn't in 2003 or 2010.  Not one drop.

It rained in 2003, light drizzle but it still counts - pretty sure it was during Sigur Ros set on the Sunday.

[Padgey]

11 minutes ago, simonizer said:

We did have a long winter. Long and very wet .bad doesn't  have to mean cold . 

 

I didn't see any UK cities come to a halt, not even London, and people not able to leave their houses because the snow was that bad.  As far as winters went it wasn't exactly extreme.

[stuartbert two hats]

4 minutes ago, blackred said:

It rained in 2003, light drizzle but it still counts - pretty sure it was during Sigur Ros set on the Sunday.

 

4 minutes ago, The Nal said:

It rained on the Sunday in 2003.

Oh okay. Must have been thinking of another year, I seem to remember stats saying a year round that time stayed dry, probably 2000. Might try to dig out some figures.

[Mr.Tease]

8 minutes ago, blackred said:

It rained in 2003, light drizzle but it still counts - pretty sure it was during Sigur Ros set on the Sunday.

It was very very light drizzle- we were very lucky because the sky went very dark grey Sunday evening (I remember because I was watching the delgados in new bands tent and they were getting pissed off that people kept looking outside, and told everyone off!) and was forecast to pour down- fortunately it never materialised! 

[mario man]

it rained during Moby on the sunday that year. also seem to remember rain during echo & bunnymen on the friday? maybe wrong on that one though

edit: I'm talking about 2003!

Edited May 18, 2016 by mario man

[Kashkin]

I remember seeing some figures, and since 2000 there have been only two entirely dry festivals - 2000 and 2010.

[simonizer]

has anyone posted this

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7144866/Summer-will-be-a-total-washout-with-more-floods-storms-and-torrential-downpours.html

 

[NoBallGames]

7 minutes ago, simonizer said:

has anyone posted this

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7144866/Summer-will-be-a-total-washout-with-more-floods-storms-and-torrential-downpours.html

 

Well that article is not a lot of fun. 

[Larraht]

17 minutes ago, simonizer said:

has anyone posted this

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7144866/Summer-will-be-a-total-washout-with-more-floods-storms-and-torrential-downpours.html

 

Hail at Glastonbury? Finally some ice on site!