The state of the ground.

[VolumetricFox]

 

[mrfunk]

you got 4 yes's lol

 

[Mr Splodge]

Guessing the yes is for daily so will keep the coming.  

[gooner1990]

33 minutes ago, Mr Splodge said:

Guessing the yes is for daily so will keep the coming.  

what job do you have on site?

[stuartbert two hats]

5 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

what job do you have on site?

Bin painter and village resident.

[Keithy]

1 hour ago, Sawdusty Surfer said:

^ Exactly that. 

(Good to see you again @Mr Splodge    )

 

Will post pointless but encouraging SOTG reports much more regularly from now on. Pointless because they'll just be a long repetition of rock hard, dusty, arid,baked, Ghandi's sandal etc etc

Importantly....will the ground take a tent peg ok?

[semmtexx]

2 hours ago, Mr Splodge said:

Tonight's site report.

dust bowl, spraying the roads to keep the dust down.  Really hot and staying fine all week (I am told).

will not do the daily reports (unless wanted) but will update IF conditions change.

 

WANTED!! Please please please! (Thank you thank you thank you!)

Edited June 12, 2017 by semmtexx

[Joeskeppi]

It must be full on dust bowl mode at the moment!

 

Edit: I should read the posts above

Edited June 13, 2017 by Joeskeppi

[lucyginger]

Another vote for daily updates please!!! Thank you!

[Tommy101]

Love the updates, especially when they are this positive. Thanks to all who contribute. 

[cazzatron]

Love the updates, I am reaching peak obsession about the weather and ground!

[VolumetricFox]

Just don't post anything like this (Trigger warning).  

 

[Carpyrob]

13 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Bin painter and village resident.

Do you know my sister - Gina? 

 

Tell her I said hi! 

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Carpyrob said:

Do you know my sister - Gina? 

 

Tell her I said hi! 

Not me, @Mr Splodge.

[daconor91]

1 hour ago, VolumetricFox said:

Just don't post anything like this (Trigger warning).  

 

I've been looking for that video. Quite astonishing really, I don't even know how that's possible. I think I would actually cry if a similar video is posted this year, looks like it definitely won't though (fingers crossed)

[Mattty]

1 hour ago, VolumetricFox said:

Just don't post anything like this (Trigger warning).  

 

I should have taken heed of the trigger warning. My god

[balti-pie]

 that video  I remember convincing myself that a couple of days of wind and sunshine, and it'd be fine  I'm a dick, tbf 

[Madyaker]

It's still not too late for it all to go to shit! Though I'm still staying cautiosly optimistic that at the very least, it won't be as bad as last year.

[bennyhana22]

1 hour ago, VolumetricFox said:

Just don't post anything like this (Trigger warning).  

 

I remember being utterly mesmerised by that video last year and not being able to stop watching it on repeat. Even seeing that at the time, my optimistic nature thought it would all be fine. It was an amazing festival. But with regards to The State of the Ground it wasn't all fine. No siree!

Compare the site now to that video. It was taken in four days time a year ago, after what had already been a significant number of days of relentless rain. For all our chirping, @The Nal is pretty much always right - his faux-trolling of the weather thread is purely to reiterate (with menace) what is true - that the forecast is pretty much pointless and irrelevant. There will be weather. We'll know each day what it will be like by opening our eyes and looking upwards. 

What I think I can say with confidence, however, is that the chances of the above video's conditions being repeated for GF2017 are between zero and infinitesimally low!

So that's all good, then.

Ben

[Sasperella]

14 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

What I think I say, with confidence, however, is that the chances of the above video's conditions being repeated for GF2017 are between zero and infinitesimally low!

[Fork_UK]

Can see from Glastocam that the grass is going brown.  Yay!  Scorch that shit!  ☀️☀️

[Purple aki squat]

27 minutes ago, Fork_UK said:

Can see from Glastocam that the grass is going brown.  Yay!  Scorch that shit!  ☀️☀️

I'm no expert but grass is green, mud is brown. This is terrible news.

[edwardjc14]

2 hours ago, VolumetricFox said:

Just don't post anything like this (Trigger warning).  

 

this still gives me nightmares 

[kellly]

This thread is so addictive

[Mattty]

Last year I was in a tent in the green futures field where you have to take your wellies off. Someone else must have had the same wellies as me, but a size lower, as there was only one welly in my size when I was ready to leave. I spent the rest of the festival with different sized wellies. I proper hope it's alright and I can gamble on bringing different sized wellies with me, and only have to wear them for a short amount of time