The Weather Thread 2019

[tumbles]

Just now, Zoo Music Girl said:

I'd say 2013 is more best case scenario, like last year. Was looking for an example in the middle.

2014 wasn't that bad, was it? It did get pretty muddy but not 2016 levels.

Thunderstorm aside it was ok, just seemed we kept having random downpours throughout the weekend. Seem to recall a few sat or sunday that weren't even forecast. 

[benc]

I'm sure this is just enough moisture to keep the dust down

[sprocketrocket]

It's fine everything is fine don't panic chill out stop reading the weather thread its fine

[jparx]

I remember a couple of weeks ago it hammered it down for a solid couple of days, and the ground dried up within 24 hours. I was planning to mow the lawn and thought it would be a write off for a few days, but it recovered very quickly.

We're still three weeks away so I wouldn't start to get concerned at the amount of rain until at least this time next week. If we have a good 3-4 days of dry weather before gates open, then a decent forecast over the festival, it'll be fine. As CalGon said, just be thankful it's not this weekend.

[Fork_UK]

1 hour ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Is the Glastonbury-on-sea pier being constructed half way up the hill a forecast of things to come...?

At least there'll be some high ground if Pennard's floods!

[Havors]

8 days of rain forcast on Wunderground is not good... depends how much rain though. Hopefully just little showers... 

The weather is absolute dogshit this year... its June and we have temps of like 15 degrees C... wtf?? Im moving abroad ha

[Ayrshire Chris]

My god, the sun has come out in the west of Scotland,  quick, taps aff, cut the hedge, cut the grass, turn pasty faced children into beetroots in 30 minutes. It’s not to rain for at least two hours. 

[briddj]

People really, really, really need to calm down. ALL the moisture will have gone after this.

 

[rubick]

Any good rates on a sturdy, reliable kayak? 

[kaytee...]

3 minutes ago, briddj said:

People really, really, really need to calm down. ALL the moisture will have gone after this.

 

Can we move Glasto forward a week?

[dccool]

5 minutes ago, briddj said:

People really, really, really need to calm down. ALL the moisture will have gone after this.

 

 

[Yokel Again]

2 weeks until panic stations, but I'm already looking at this thread WAY to often. 

I figure the more it rains now, the less chance there is over the festival. 

[Skoo]

2 minutes ago, Yokel Again said:

I figure the more it rains now, the less chance there is over the festival. 

I tend to feel the same. If it was lovely and hot now I'd be thinking it'll never last.

 

 

[Winslow Leach]

It's just giving the ground a nice little bounce to it to offset the Steinbeckian nightmare we were otherwise heading for.

[uscore]

Our school camping trip to Glastonbury is still on this weekend. But the Whatsapp group is getting twitchy. I reckon once a couple of people announce they are delaying arrival til tomorrow there will be a domino effect.

[bigfurbdogg]

26 minutes ago, briddj said:

People really, really, really need to calm down. ALL the moisture will have gone after this.

 

We could really do with this coming to fruition.

[stuartbert two hats]

3 hours ago, Henrik said:

He's not even messing around. That is bloody horrific. The run in wasn't this bad in 2016 was it? 

Yes it was. Much worse. 

[Havors]

31 minutes ago, briddj said:

People really, really, really need to calm down. ALL the moisture will have gone after this.

 

We can dream.... but we know any forecast over 10 days ahead is always a complete guess. Hell lets be honest anything over a 4 ish days is a complete guess. 

[stuartbert two hats]

3 hours ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

I'd take 2014 or 2014 again. They both seem like being in the middle? 2015 was drier though.

What about 2014?

[briddj]

2 minutes ago, Havors said:

We can dream.... but we know any forecast over 10 days ahead is always a complete guess. Hell lets be honest anything over a 4 ish days is a complete guess. 

No. Only bad forecasts are a complete guess.

The good ones are based on sound science.

[paulshane]

just for fun, I've made a very unscientific rain meter and stuck it outside at work. current line is the start level, I put it outside at 11:46. Will check hourly if I remember

Graduations are in 5xmm, so if the level gets to the next long line, that 10mm of rain.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, paulshane said:

just for fun, I've made a very unscientific rain meter and stuck it outside at work. current line is the start level, I put it outside at 11:46. Will check hourly if I remember

Graduations are in 5xmm, so if the level gets to the next long line, that 10mm of rain.

Where in the country do you work?

[Havors]

1 minute ago, briddj said:

No. Only bad forecasts are a complete guess.

The good ones are based on sound science.

So good that they change daily.... 

Even based on good science they are a guess. The longer ahead they predict the more unreliable they are. 

Unless its apple weather and then its always wrong no matter what.  

[paulshane]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Where in the country do you work?

I'm 18.1 miles north east as the crow flies of the site, in Clevedon. So not terribly close, but local-ish

[Charm]

42 minutes ago, briddj said:

People really, really, really need to calm down. ALL the moisture will have gone after this.

 

Thanks, I needed to see that. 

Charm x