The Weather Thread 2019

[jfaragher]

13 minutes ago, Kinkyinuit said:

I do love a table. 

Mate, not just a table, it's a fucking spreadsheet.  This is the good stuff brother!

2 minutes ago, GregsyA said:

So what you saying is it cast-iron guaranteed to be perfect conditions, right?

Yes*

*no

[GregsyA]

Just now, jfaragher said:

 

Yes*
*no

Never read the small print

[Ayrshire Chris]

2 minutes ago, cb4747 said:

I’m addicted to this thread, the ups and downs are really getting me going. 

I’m not sure how to interpret that! 

[Chrundle The Great]

3 minutes ago, cb4747 said:

I’m addicted to this thread, the ups and downs are really getting me going. 

Guaranteed to be more exciting than George Ezra. 

[HotblackDesiato]

[Ommadawn]

2 hours ago, The Nal said:

 

 

Looking really really bad. Time to start panicking. We're looking at 2007 basically. Low pressure and wet.

Are we fucked yet?

[Lubic]

A poor build-up isn't necessarily the end of the world. It's all about having warm, dry weather during the festival.

2011 showed that sun and a rise in temps during the festival can be enough to dry out even the worst ground conditions. The mud on arrival in 2011 was pretty similar to 2016, and it even hammered it down all Friday night. And yet by Sunday the place was a desert, fine for sitting on.

[Rubber Soldier]

3 minutes ago, Lubic87 said:

A poor build-up isn't necessarily the end of the world. It's all about having warm, dry weather during the festival.

2011 showed that sun and a rise in temps during the festival can be enough to dry out even the worst ground conditions. The mud on arrival in 2011 was pretty similar to 2016, and it even hammered it down all Friday night. And yet by Sunday the place was a desert, fine for sitting on.

Even in 2016 it almost dried out. The weather was mostly fine until Friday night/Saturday morning. Then it tipped down early doors. Waking back to our tent on Friday I remember thinking it might trainer conditions soon...

[BambooShanks]

1 minute ago, Rubber Soldier said:

Even in 2016 it almost dried out. The weather was mostly fine until Friday night/Saturday morning. Then it tipped down early doors. Waking back to our tent on Friday I remember thinking it might trainer conditions soon...

and it was by monday.  The ground was wonderfully bouncy,  it made the walk to the car an absolute breeze - if infuriating because if we had monday's weather at any point over the fest, it would have made so much difference

[Duggyfresh44]

44 minutes ago, The Nal said:

YR now showing rain every day from now until Friday 21st. A couple of those days are quite heavy too. 

Guaranteed mud.

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

I starting to think you WANT the mud.....?

[Gedh]

1 hour ago, Caribun said:

The weather is so bad that the lovely pear tree in my garden has fallen down. this is putting a serious downer on the lead up to my first festival! 

Bring a lump of the wood along to the craft fields and make yourself a spoon in memory ?

 

[JoeyT]

I'm pretty confident it won't be a repeat of this. 

 

[Brave Sir Robin]

1 hour ago, HotblackDesiato said:

Out of upvotes, but this is excellent ?

[gooner1990]

10 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

I'm pretty confident it won't be a repeat of this. 

 

**shudders**

[JoeyT]

2 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

**shudders**

Should have said it's not for those of a nervous disposition!

[FloorFiller]

19 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

I'm pretty confident it won't be a repeat of this. 

 

I felt the mud slipping under my feet seconds before going on my arse just watching that.

[PaintedInSand]

12 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

I felt the mud slipping under my feet seconds before going on my arse just watching that.

Oh god, that short sharp feeling of panic as your foot doesn't do what it supposed to do...

Also... Ghost of a Thousand signature?? Yes please!

[gherkin8r]

Can anyone please help? If I drill into a day (on accuweather specifically) and it says for instance 2mm of rain in the day..... Does anyone know if this means 2mm of rain forecasted in total over the day or an average rate of rainfall of 2mm per hour? Confused and it obviously makes a difference. The internet would seem to suggest where mm rain is quoted it is a rate of rainfall. 

[Spindles]

First reports just coming in from the Worthy FM weather desk:

[Mr.Tease]

6 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

Can anyone please help? If I drill into a day (on accuweather specifically) and it says for instance 2mm of rain in the day..... Does anyone know if this means 2mm of rain forecasted in total over the day or an average rate of rainfall of 2mm per hour? Confused and it obviously makes a difference. The internet would seem to suggest where mm rain is quoted it is a rate of rainfall. 

I am unfamiliar with this drilling into a day procedure 

[gherkin8r]

1 minute ago, Mr.Tease said:

I am unfamiliar with this drilling into a day procedure 

I just mean clicking on a given day. It seems more clear on my desktop actually than on my mobile

[BambooShanks]

8 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

Can anyone please help? If I drill into a day (on accuweather specifically) and it says for instance 2mm of rain in the day..... Does anyone know if this means 2mm of rain forecasted in total over the day or an average rate of rainfall of 2mm per hour? Confused and it obviously makes a difference. The internet would seem to suggest where mm rain is quoted it is a rate of rainfall. 

I'm pretty sure it means the total rain forecast, not the rate of rainfall. Though it does tell you how many hours of rainfall so you can work out the rate of rainfall from that.

 

[gherkin8r]

 

2 minutes ago, Kinkyinuit said:

I'm pretty sure it means the total rain forecast, not the rate of rainfall. Though it does tell you how many hours of rainfall so you can work out the rate of rainfall from that.

 

This is very much the answer I was hoping for. It has 0-2 hours rainfall per day in general and totals of 0-2mm in each of those days. Bit of a disconnect between the mood created by the little rainclouds and the reality of the stats behind them. Unless the ground was in bad shape before hand that amount of rain shouldn't be any issue whatsoever. Just enough in the run up to make the ground soft enough to receive a good pegging. 

[richy24]

14 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

Can anyone please help? If I drill into a day (on accuweather specifically) and it says for instance 2mm of rain in the day..... Does anyone know if this means 2mm of rain forecasted in total over the day or an average rate of rainfall of 2mm per hour? Confused and it obviously makes a difference. The internet would seem to suggest where mm rain is quoted it is a rate of rainfall. 

It's the total rainfall over that whole period. Its not particularly clear which hours they count as day and night but if there's 2mm due over the whole day (say 6am - 6pm) that really wouldn't be anything to worry about.

[MrHew]

58 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

I'm pretty confident it won't be a repeat of this. 

 

I don't mind the mud like that (would obviously prefer none though) because everyone's moving around fine. It's the sticky, effort to move through stuff that I can't cope with.