Weather 2016

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, mario man said:

Let's not even talk about the Norwegians... http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Pilton~2640282/long.html

Just drying up for New Order, what more do you want?

[nban2010]

8 minutes ago, mario man said:

Let's not even talk about the Norwegians... http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Pilton~2640282/long.html

Thats the wrong Pilton. 

[stopwn1981]

3 minutes ago, eastynh said:

Just drying up for New Order, what more do you want?

For it to not rain at all, for it to be pleasantly warm with a degree of cloud cover. 

[ourkid1984]

It looks OK according to my accuweather app. And apart from the odd change of symbol the descriptions have been pretty similar for the last few days. This with the BBC and netweather forecasts I'm positive that we will have a fairly dry festival with the odd shower. (All based on science clearly).

[Guest]

1 minute ago, stopwn1981 said:

For it to not rain at all, for it to be pleasantly warm with a degree of cloud cover. 

Some people are never happy.

[Heather90]

3 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

For it to not rain at all, for it to be pleasantly warm with a degree of cloud cover. 

This is the stuff dreams are made of. I'm cautiously optimistic the BBC have it right. I can take the odd shower

[fur_q]

6 minutes ago, funkyuk said:

Am I the only one actually hoping for a motherfucker of a monsoon so it makes it easier to get tickets next year?

 

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[mario man]

5 minutes ago, nban2010 said:

Thats the wrong Pilton. 

I'm pretty sure it's the right one actually 

[CaledonianGonzo]

9 minutes ago, funkyuk said:

Am I the only one actually hoping for a motherfucker of a monsoon so it makes it easier to get tickets next year?

I have my waterproof boots and shorts.  Bring it on

AKA The Pyrrhic Victory Zero Sum Game Scenario.

[geoffboycott]

Just to say it was stair rod stuff, thundery, hail downpours here yesterday (about 12 miles South of Pilton) and bands of showers this morning so far.  Lots of field run off I noticed on the way to work this morning BUT we're still several days away and have to say that Glastonbury ground doesn't half drain well these days.  I'm not too worried.

[djcolsen]

52 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Metcheck would be better described as utterly bonkers. That rainforest combination of heavy rain and high heat is unlike any year on the farm in the past (or future if we're being honest)

So we're still in the making up as they go along time frame then!

[Mr.Tease]

That Gav youtube video started the panic, so here is his vid from roughly the same time last year so we can check his accuracy- haven't watched it all yet!

 

Edited June 17, 2016 by Mr.Tease

[Mr.Tease]

13 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Gav's latest is up!

 

Actually if you compare it to the one he did at this time last year, and watch them side by side, they are roughly identical- same pressure charts, same temperatures, same rainfall charts. I can't actually remember what last years weather was though- can anyone help me out?

 

Edited June 17, 2016 by Mr.Tease

[Thunderstruck]

11 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

@Thunderstruck @pedmills and other weather people - is Gav any good? He seems to be just reading the GFS results, not doing any kind of analysis of multiple sources.

Are we doomed???

I've not actually seen his forecasts! 

Still disagreement this morning - It looks like Wednesday and Thursday will be good, the GFS this morning is a massive hot outlier - so best ignored. 

The UK Met Office and ECMWF have broad agreement for Wednesday, Thursday - it looks pretty decent with some sunshine. 

After this it may turn a bit more unsettled with some showery rain coming through on the Friday, but like I said there's not really much agreement at the moment. The good thing is there's still no real chance of a washout IMO.

[nban2010]

WHAT EVEN IS THIS?

 

35C and 23mm of rain......?!

[maelzoid]

Metcheck looking crazy!

Safe to say at this stage; nobody knows nothing!

[Sack truck]

It's a gonna be tropicaaaaaal

[beatboy1]

4 minutes ago, nban2010 said:

WHAT EVEN IS THIS?

 

35C and 23mm of rain......?!

 

[Thunderstruck]

Just now, Nobody Interesting said:

What the hell are yr.no looking at then?

Where's the forecast link?

[nban2010]

Glasto 2016:

 

[Henrik]

Good old BBC is holding strong. Shepton Mallet looking fine for the whole weekend.

[morph100]

4 minutes ago, Sack truck said:

It's a gonna be tropicaaaaaal

Perfect weather for my Flamingos :-)

[Thunderstruck]

Just now, nban2010 said:

WHAT EVEN IS THIS?

 

35C and 23mm of rain......?!

Taken directly of the GFS - ignore it because it's a massive outlier. The black line is the one that produced the crazy forecast...you can see it's way above every other run (bar a couple)

[The Nal]

11 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

Actually if you compare it to the one he did at this time last year, and watch them side by side, they are roughly identical- same pressure charts, same temperatures, same rainfall charts.

He eats poached childrens lungs for breakfast and then before he forecasts the weather in the afternoon he walks around the park dressed up as Batman telling people hes Jesus Christ. 

[Thunderstruck]

Just now, Nobody Interesting said:

They have changed it since I looked earlier - thank god.

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Pilton~7292387/long.html

Wednesday looks shit but apart from that it is not bad. Earlier it was a 4 day mudbath.

Ok, I think they take their forecast off the ECMWF run - at the moment the ECMWF actually looks ok for Wednesday/Thursday.