Weather 2016

[big__phil]

Looking pretty decent generally then. Keep up the fine work everyone.

Welcome back @pedmills - it's great to see your graphs again! For the sake of context, do you still have last year's? I seem to remember that changed dramatically in the week approaching the festival.

[Thunderstruck]

Just now, devonhammer said:

 

Oops. The ECM was just a copy and paste. Page was taking ages to load, so went on to the next one and forgot to go back. My bad.

No worries! The ECM mean has just come out too, much improved from 12z yesterday. Very promising trend at the moment, lets keep it up!

[Spindles]

2 hours ago, bennyhana22 said:

On my way home from work yesterday, and to work today, the lashing down was at levels that would produce a 2007, I reckon!

Yet I'm in the next town over and we had a handful of extremely light showers over the last couple of days.  We've got some light rain at the moment and I'd expect some intermittent heavy showers over the next couple of days, then I reckon we are through it.  Just goes to show how tricky it really is to predict the weather in a very localised area, since 2 people 10 miles apart can have quite different experiences, particularly in June.

[Stretlow]

Can anyone already on site who follows this forum shed any light on how the actual site is holding up so far?

[Spindles]

Asking the right questions.  I'm hoping for some site snaps, or even a 2011 style comical ali video.

Edited June 15, 2016 by Spindles

[CaledonianGonzo]

There's probably an extent to which it doesn't really matter at the minute. 

It's the time it has available to dry between what hits this week and the gates opening on Wednesday that will make a difference.

[Larraht]

11 minutes ago, Stretlow said:

Can anyone already on site who follows this forum shed any light on how the actual site is holding up so far?

West Holts stage wrote this on their facebook page in response to someone asking a similar question this morning:

'Damp but they're trying to keep vehicles off the grass as much as possible and hopefully it will dry out next week'. 

So they are looking out for us!

[devonhammer]

4 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

There's probably an extent to which it doesn't really matter at the minute. 

It's the time it has available to dry between what hits this week and the gates opening on Wednesday that will make a difference.

 

I'm keeping an eye on the high res webcam. There's a crossroads at the cider bus corner of the Pyramid field. Yesterday there was standing water. Today it's dry.

[jparx]

It really is squeaky bum time.

I'm finding it hard to remain positive with the state of the current weather, but I just keep thinking how unlikely it is we'll get almost 2 1/2 weeks straight of this weather. It must come good soon.

[big__phil]

3 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

 

I'm keeping an eye on the high res webcam. There's a crossroads at the cider bus corner of the Pyramid field. Yesterday there was standing water. Today it's dry.

Cheers for the link, that's loads better than the webcam! Does it auto-update?

[devonhammer]

3 minutes ago, big__phil said:

Cheers for the link, that's loads better than the webcam! Does it auto-update?

No - Hit F5.

[stuartbert two hats]

3 minutes ago, big__phil said:

Cheers for the link, that's loads better than the webcam! Does it auto-update?

You have to hit refresh manually, but it's always the latest image in the same URL.

[bigfurbdogg]

12 minutes ago, devonhammer said:

 

I'm keeping an eye on the high res webcam. There's a crossroads at the cider bus corner of the Pyramid field. Yesterday there was standing water. Today it's dry.

Loving the webcam link, cheers for that.

[WS_Jack_III]

2 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

At 3 minutes is the bit we need to see.

All the BBC indications seem to show that the high is sticking around over the south west!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/36534591

Stick!

[big__phil]

4 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You have to hit refresh manually, but it's always the latest image in the same URL.

Haha, sorry that's what I was really asking. I didn't know if the number in the URL related to a point in time or not.

[The Nal]

6 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

At 3 minutes is the bit we need to see.

All the BBC indications seem to show that the high is sticking around over the south west!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/36534591

"Further heavy downpours"! 

 

[SteveTLizard]

1 minute ago, The Nal said:

"Further heavy downpours"! 

 

Nothing will make me smile more today than seeing "New post from The Nal in Weather 2016" pop up in Chrome.

 

[fur_q]

small note of caution though, the 0z gfs (SLP) ensemble still showing quite a wide spread from 21st onwards, meaning confidence still not great, the operational run is (bar 1 other) the most optimistic and quite along way form the mean. 

 

[The Nal]

2 minutes ago, fur_q said:

small note of caution though, the 0z gfs (SLP) ensemble still showing quite a wide spread from 21st onwards, meaning confidence still not great, the operational run is (bar 1 other) the most optimistic and quite along way form the mean. 

 

What in the name of jumping Jebus does that mean?! Absolute gibberish. 

[elias]

It means the seaweed is hanging slightly more to the left than the right. I think this is a good thing.

[Mardy]

2 minutes ago, The Nal said:

What in the name of jumping Jebus does that mean?! Absolute gibberish. 

As far as I can work out,

Quote

the 0z gfs (SLP) ensemble still showing quite a wide spread from 21st onwards,

translates to

The Australian Glastonbury Festival Sevices (Shangri La & Park) are all over the bloody shop next week.

[big__phil]

2 minutes ago, elias said:

It means the seaweed is hanging slightly more to the left than the right. I think this is a good thing.

Who told you my girlfriends nickname for my genitals?

[The Nal]

Just now, Mardy said:

As far as I can work out,

translates to

The Australian Glastonbury Festival Sevices (Shangri La & Park) are all over the bloody shop next week.

Does a "wide spread" not relate to gambling? Is fur_q placing bets on the football maybe? 

Or is he watching too much online porn?

[SteveTLizard]

6 minutes ago, fur_q said:

small note of caution though, the 0z gfs (SLP) ensemble still showing quite a wide spread from 21st onwards, meaning confidence still not great, the operational run is (bar 1 other) the most optimistic and quite along way form the mean. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, The Nal said:

What in the name of jumping Jebus does that mean?! Absolute gibberish. 

 

I'm pretty sure it means Oz's girlfriend (Sarah somebody?), will be wearing a natty ensemble, possibly based on Kate Moss pictures posted in the Daily M**l.  Apparently still showing a wide spread so he's very optimistic that his luck'll be in over the Glastonbury weekend.

If it's not that then I've no idea.

[elias]

1 minute ago, big__phil said:

Who told you my girlfriends nickname for my genitals?

Your genitals are damp, green and smell faintly of fish? It's a wonder you've got a girlfriend!