Weather 2017

[Franky]

Dust is good!

[edwardjc14]

last couple of days up int north have been superb, looks like some rain forecast for the weekend mind, feeling positive... 

[slash's hat]

Who was it doing all those graph things last yr? I want to say @pedmills, but not sure?

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

2 minutes ago, slash's hat said:

Who was it doing all those graph things last yr? I want to say @pedmills, but not sure?

It looks like he hasn't been on here since the weather thread last year, let's hope he makes a special appearance.

[deebeedoobee]

With only a sprinkle of rain today the farm the dust is now monumental. I'm kinda in 2 minds. Yep a little rain now would soften the ground - it's feckin hard on the knees at the moment. But on the other hand, it's so dry that you can sit anywhere, flip flops on, dancing in glorious sunshine.

oh and if your camping, get those rock pegs out, them ordinary ones ain't gonna go in the ground, not no way 

[squirrelarmy]

My wellies are looking fantastic. Just in time for a dry glasto when they won't be needed 

[slash's hat]

The air con on my car has knackered so if I leave it till after Glastonbury we're bound to have a heat wave right?

[billum]

2 hours ago, squirrelarmy said:

My wellies are looking fantastic. Just in time for a dry glasto when they won't be needed 

You can still wear them dangling around your neck sacrificially, you know, to make sure the weather gods don't forget they're there

[squirrelarmy]

Weather for the next week looks like it will be sorting out the dust problem. Hopefully  this will all clear in a few weeks so it's dry leading up to the festival 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Jeepers creepers.  That's a bit soggy.

[Sasperella]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Jeepers creepers.  That's a bit soggy.

Yup..my immediate thought was "waaaaaah, what if it doesn't stop?!?!?!?!"

[squirrelarmy]

It doesn't say how wet it will be just that the majority of the weather is wet not dry. Could just be drizzle all day and not heavy downpours. I'm still optimistic for good glasto weather

[CaledonianGonzo]

Fest's 6 weeks away mate.

Feels good man.

 

[stopwn1981]

Couple of weeks of solid rain would do now, followed by a month long heatwave!

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

The iPhone weather app is notoriously rubbish/ overly zealous with the rain cloud symbol. 

[squirrelarmy]

2 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

The iPhone weather app is notoriously rubbish/ overly zealous with the rain cloud symbol. 

Have to agree. It seems that if there's a small chance of rain in the day it lists it as a wet day. 

Festiweather seems to be posting realistic weather for Glasto right now. Can't post a screenshot as I'm struggling to get all the days in one screen. 

[Stretlow]

Got bored... Made a Graph.

Shows weather predictions from 5 sites for next seven days in an attempt to see what the ground is getting exposed to, (simply rain or not)

1 = Heavy Rain

2 = Light Rain

3 = Cloudy

4 = Sunny.

I Understand this is far from perfect, as i said... I was bored.. 

Criticism, abuse, and/or suggestions for improvement always welcomed

 

 

[Franky]

40 minutes ago, Stretlow said:

Got bored... Made a Graph.

Shows weather predictions from 5 sites for next seven days in an attempt to see what the ground is getting exposed to, (simply rain or not)

1 = Heavy Rain

2 = Light Rain

3 = Cloudy

4 = Sunny.

I Understand this is far from perfect, as i said... I was bored.. 

Criticism, abuse, and/or suggestions for improvement always welcomed

 

 

So a lot of light rain ?

I can deal with that .

[guypjfreak]

On 2017-5-11 at 8:19 PM, deebeedoobee said:

With only a sprinkle of rain today the farm the dust is now monumental. I'm kinda in 2 minds. Yep a little rain now would soften the ground - it's feckin hard on the knees at the moment. But on the other hand, it's so dry that you can sit anywhere, flip flops on, dancing in glorious sunshine.

oh and if your camping, get those rock pegs out, them ordinary ones ain't gonna go in the ground, not no way 

I think it's getting close to being to dry.. If we get NO R now then we will get it festival time... But we don't want it to be soaked cos then the R will not get soaked up.. It's a nightmare Init.. But don't forget last year sommerset was under water for ages so when it did R it didn't have any where to go.. 

I reckon a couple of days of R a week up to the festival and then nothing and the ground will be just right.... Then we want blue sky's and rainbows over the Tor 

 

[MetaKate]

10 hours ago, Stretlow said:

Got bored... Made a Graph.

Shows weather predictions from 5 sites for next seven days in an attempt to see what the ground is getting exposed to, (simply rain or not)

1 = Heavy Rain

2 = Light Rain

3 = Cloudy

4 = Sunny.

I Understand this is far from perfect, as i said... I was bored.. 

Criticism, abuse, and/or suggestions for improvement always welcomed

 

 

Slight adjustment...I think if you reversed the order of 1 2 3 and 4 so 4=heavy rain and 1=sunny then the chart would be a nice visual on rain amounts. 

[deebeedoobee]

7 hours ago, guypjfreak said:

I think it's getting close to being to dry.. If we get NO R now then we will get it festival time... But we don't want it to be soaked cos then the R will not get soaked up.. It's a nightmare Init.. But don't forget last year sommerset was under water for ages so when it did R it didn't have any where to go.. 

I reckon a couple of days of R a week up to the festival and then nothing and the ground will be just right.... Then we want blue sky's and rainbows over the Tor 

 

 

The gods heard and the heavens have opened overnight - This is deebeedoobee reporting from soggy Someret, a very wet and grey and windy soggy Pilton

[Zoo Music Girl]

9 hours ago, guypjfreak said:

I think it's getting close to being to dry.. If we get NO R now then we will get it festival time... But we don't want it to be soaked cos then the R will not get soaked up.. It's a nightmare Init.. But don't forget last year sommerset was under water for ages so when it did R it didn't have any where to go.. 

I reckon a couple of days of R a week up to the festival and then nothing and the ground will be just right.... Then we want blue sky's and rainbows over the Tor 

 

No rainbows without rain, old son...

[Stretlow]

The forecast this week looks grim indeed

[stopwn1981]

I didn't go in 2013 but was it totally dry underfoot? If it was, 2014 there was mud, 2015 there wasn't, 2016 there defo was, so 2017 equals no mud...but of a stretch but hey...

[Tartan_Glasto]

It was bad conditions last year, so it will be good conditions this year. That's how weather works.