The Weather Thread 2019

[bigfurbdogg]

1 hour ago, Cooter said:

I was there during the Wurzels heatray in 2010 and it was as hot as hell, and that's coming from a big sunworshipper.

I was there for that as well, was sweltering! And this is looking like being even hotter. I don’t know if I should be excited or slightly scared! 

[Aragorn]

16 minutes ago, briddj said:

Well tonight's chart for Friday night into Saturday is horrendous. But PLEASE remember this is 8 days away so it's NOT reliable. 

Remember the Tuesday into Wednesday rain has now gone. 

It maybe the OP is an outlier. Awaiting the ensembles 

[sedra]

Ok everyone please calm down. Forecast is unreliable until 2 or 3 days out so stop stressing. It’s changed about 4 times today from apocalyptic thunderstorms to heatwave. If it’s 2010 hot then I am going to cry ?. I have to have factor 50 and wear a hat at the best of times and hot mud is not pleasant either!! Am hoping the weather will settle down nicely by Monday. 

On another note over 200 pages is going well ?

[chemica]

So, just to be clear, do I need to send my wellies back or not?

[Field Commander Jefferson]

1 minute ago, chemica said:

So, just to be clear, do I need to send my wellies back or not?

Send one back

[sedra]

2 minutes ago, chemica said:

So, just to be clear, do I need to send my wellies back or not?

Not til after the festival- keep’m in the car just in case!! 

[briddj]

13 minutes ago, sedra said:

Ok everyone please calm down. Forecast is unreliable until 2 or 3 days out so stop stressing. It’s changed about 4 times today from apocalyptic thunderstorms to heatwave. If it’s 2010 hot then I am going to cry ?. I have to have factor 50 and wear a hat at the best of times and hot mud is not pleasant either!! Am hoping the weather will settle down nicely by Monday. 

On another note over 200 pages is going well ?

The forecast has actually been consistent. It's people who are not being! 

[xandercs12]

Just now, briddj said:

The forecast has actually been consistent. It's people who are not being! 

it wasnt forecasting friday into saturday storm was it earlier?

[Reckoner]

For all the talk about the storms, it's only about 40% Sunday night, with Tuesday being about 30% 

Sunday is a quite narrow band that Pilton only gets the tail of. Assuming the forcefield will take care of this.

Tuesday is a very small isloated event that could (will) easily miss the farm

No stress.

[brettredmayne]

BBC now have no rain for the whole of the festival 

[cb4747]

Darnit last week I went out and got loads of waterproofs, welly socks, thermals and a woolly hat and now I need to get a bikini. 

[Cooter]

40 minutes ago, brettredmayne said:

BBC now have no rain for the whole of the festival 

But a bit more rain prefest Sun to Weds, not sure it's much to worry about but there are black clouds too.

Edited June 21, 2019 by Cooter

[Anarion]

Best start to the day ever!

No wonder Glastonbury is the best festival in the world. The entertainment and excitement I get from this thread more than makes up for the ticket cost, everything else is a bonus.

[tumbles]

*wakes up, checks thread, smiles, goes back for power nap*

[stopwn1981]

Rainfall forecasts should probably be largely ignored now. Both Gav and unanimously on netweather saying that storms with torrential downpours order of the day throughout the week. Might get lucky, might not. Very hard to pin down. Could turn up anywhere or nowhere.

As always it’s on a knife edge. ?

[Homer]

One minute people are panicking over too much rain, the next, too much sun. Could the truth lie... somewhere in between? ?

[jonnyisRFC]

All weather sites seem to be in agreement now that Wednesday is going to be low 30s. I will genuinely struggle like fuck with that temp. 

[Duggyfresh44]

6 hours ago, briddj said:

Well tonight's chart for Friday night into Saturday is horrendous. But PLEASE remember this is 8 days away so it's NOT reliable. 

Remember the Tuesday into Wednesday rain has now gone. 

Minimal rain for the Glastonbury area there anyway? 3-4mm? Or am

i reading that wrong? 

[desm0nd123]

11 minutes ago, jonnyisRFC said:

All weather sites seem to be in agreement now that Wednesday is going to be low 30s. I will genuinely struggle like fuck with that temp. 

It was 32 degrees Wednesday 2017 and that was seriously hot. There was a huge cheer when the sun finally set among the horizon. Still, would much prefer baking hot than loads of rain! 

I heard if the Thursday that year was as hot as Wednesday, then they were potentially going to pull the plug on it. So many had heat exhaustion due to poor preparation for the heat. 

Let's hope everyone is sensible and wears appropriate clothing and brings plenty of water and sun cream this year! 

Edited June 21, 2019 by desm0nd123

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

The weather thread isn't currently ‘Hot’ it’s quite disconcerting.

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

Just now, desm0nd123 said:

It was 32 degrees Wednesday 2017 and that was seriously hot. There was a huge cheer when the sun finally set among the horizon. Still, would much prefer baking hot than loads of rain! 

I heard if the Thursday that year was as hot as Wednesday, then they were potentially going to pull the plug of it. So many had heat exhaustion due to poor preparation for the heat. 

Sorry but that is complete and utter rubbish!!

[stopwn1981]

Perhaps Lion-o can take one for the team?

[desm0nd123]

2 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Sorry but that is complete and utter rubbish!!

It's what I heard through a friend of a friend who works for an events company which do the health and safety for glasto. It did sound unbelievable yes I agree, but it's a pretty good source.

Certainly at this point I wouldn't want to be seen as scaremongering, it's going to be ok and the weather will be lovely! 

[Razza_bezza]

3 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Sorry but that is complete and utter rubbish!!

Absolutely no chance they would pull the plug cause it’s too hot ?? I heard they contemplated building a igloo over the whole of the site to keep everyone cool and counteract the heat exhaustion, not sure if that’s true though ?

[Duggyfresh44]

6 minutes ago, desm0nd123 said:

It was 32 degrees Wednesday 2017 and that was seriously hot. There was a huge cheer when the sun finally set among the horizon. Still, would much prefer baking hot than loads of rain! 

I heard if the Thursday that year was as hot as Wednesday, then they were potentially going to pull the plug on it. So many had heat exhaustion due to poor preparation for the heat. 

Let's hope everyone is sensible and wears appropriate clothing and brings plenty of water and sun cream this year! 

I find that a bit hard to believe. These rumours that fly around, one person says it then it spreads. I don't think they've ever cancelled Burning Man because it got too hot. Or Benicassim festival.