The Weather Thread 2019

[briddj]

Here's the 00Z in summary.

High pressure: Continues to build from the weekend and through the week until Thursday, when it sinks back towards Europe. Over the festival Saturday and Sunday, pressure returns to the levels of this weekend cominng again - not terrible just not as high as midweek.

Precipitation: Showing a fair bit of rain on the Monday still, and again some rain when the gates open, plus a bit on Weds eve. Then dry all day Thursday with a very small amount on Friday, Saturday and Sudnay - but really barely worth mentioning, only saying cos it appears on the run.

Temperatures: Monday 14-15, Tuesday 17-19, Wednesday 23-24, Thursday 22, Friday 23, Saturday 19-20, Sunday 17-18

So we have had some consistency in the last three runs, so a pattern may well be emerging for the plume! However, we are still too far away and the pocket of low pressure sat out to the south west of the country is key to everything...... it needs to stay out of the way.

I won't say it's a great update even though it's still warm with less rain. ?

[tumbles]

If that rain on Weds can do one I’ll happily stick

[gherkin8r]

Looking good! 

[yehbutnobut]

Devon Live putting their two penneth in. Fairly positive.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/glastonbury-2019-heres-met-office-2985488??

[CaledonianGonzo]

At the moment I'm more interested in today and tomorrow.  2016 taught us that decent overheads during the fest don't count for much if gets caught amidships by floods the previous week.

[stopwn1981]

?

[xandercs12]

I feel like even if it rains a bit tonight and tomorrow, we have good enough weather after that to dry most of it up. Fingers crossed!

[Stocksey]

37 minutes ago, briddj said:

Here's the 00Z in summary.

High pressure: Continues to build from the weekend and through the week until Thursday, when it sinks back towards Europe. Over the festival Saturday and Sunday, pressure returns to the levels of this weekend cominng again - not terrible just not as high as midweek.

Precipitation: Showing a fair bit of rain on the Monday still, and again some rain when the gates open, plus a bit on Weds eve. Then dry all day Thursday with a very small amount on Friday, Saturday and Sudnay - but really barely worth mentioning, only saying cos it appears on the run.

Temperatures: Monday 14-15, Tuesday 17-19, Wednesday 23-24, Thursday 22, Friday 23, Saturday 19-20, Sunday 17-18

So we have had some consistency in the last three runs, so a pattern may well be emerging for the plume! However, we are still too far away and the pocket of low pressure sat out to the south west of the country is key to everything...... it needs to stay out of the way.

I won't say it's a great update even though it's still warm with less rain. ?

@briddj thanks for you great work. I admire the effort you are putting in here, and certainly compared to mean you are somewhat of an expert. Also keep up with the opptimism, youve certainly dragged me up this morning and im very positive about things.

One of 2 things will happen post festival. 1, you will be completely wrong we all will have been soaked and you will be remembered as the joker who doesn't know what hes talking about for ever on the forum. or 2, i believe the most likely, you will bang on. We will have a great weekend weather wise and this will be your job for every festival to come. You will be this threads equivalent of RAM jam jar, sticky stick and big dogs paws!

[CaledonianGonzo]

The site is more or less on the outside of the Met Office's weather warning for tonight and tomorrow.

[tumbles]

Rain today tomorrow and then two days of sun with 20 degrees. Be ok 

[briddj]

12 minutes ago, Stocksey said:

@briddj thanks for you great work. I admire the effort you are putting in here, and certainly compared to mean you are somewhat of an expert. Also keep up with the opptimism, youve certainly dragged me up this morning and im very positive about things.

One of 2 things will happen post festival. 1, you will be completely wrong we all will have been soaked and you will be remembered as the joker who doesn't know what hes talking about for ever on the forum. or 2, i believe the most likely, you will bang on. We will have a great weekend weather wise and this will be your job for every festival to come. You will be this threads equivalent of RAM jam jar, sticky stick and big dogs paws!

Let's hope so! Though I must point out it's not me making any predictions, I'm only saying what is on this particular set of charts/runs!

[Sasperella]

4 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The site is more or less on the outside of the Met Office's weather warning for tonight and tomorrow.

I presume they're overly cautious with such things (making boundaries their absolute max) given that they're warnings. Although this gives me some comfort it does require ignoring @stopwn1981's pretty-but-terrible image.... (Green is bad, right?)

[Casper86]

The missus keeps looking at whatever weather site you get on google and is getting pissed off that it's forecasting lots of rain before and during the festival, I've obviously her that some fellas on the Glasto forum have already promised it's all going to be fine but she is not having any of it ?

Edited June 18, 2019 by Casper86

[Cooter]

1 minute ago, Casper86 said:

that some fellas on the Glasto forum have already promised it's all going to be fine but she is not having any of it ?

correct, that'll be sprocket. In fact joking aside his very brief forecasts have probably been correct all along.

[dmedxb]

Feel like today is going to be pretty important, weather-wise. Glasto webcam currently on my second monitor as a 'screensaver'! 

[Flysheet]

5 minutes ago, Casper86 said:

The missus keeps looking at whatever weather site you get on google and is getting pissed off that it's forecasting lots of rain before and during the festival, I've obviously her that some fellas on the Glasto forum have already promised it's all going to be fine but she is not having any of it ?

My Mrs is the same with iPhone one. Then she looks at the BBC doom mongers ‘rain cloud all day for 5 mins rain’ and tuts.

2016 was her first one and she thinks that it’ll be like that every year 

[sprocketrocket]

4 minutes ago, Cooter said:

correct, that'll be sprocket. In fact joking aside his very brief forecasts have probably been correct all along.

We'll be alright.

[gherkin8r]

25 minutes ago, xandercs12 said:

I feel like even if it rains a bit tonight and tomorrow, we have good enough weather after that to dry most of it up. Fingers crossed!

Looks like that should be the case. Just hoping the rain at the start of next week doesnt worsen

[xandercs12]

12 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

Looks like that should be the case. Just hoping the rain at the start of next week doesnt worsen

Even still, the ground is already pretty good so we won’t have much mud. I think it will be a good weekend weather wise, nothing special but nothing terrible either 

[briddj]

Alderc is in full-on shitehawk mode in the Netweather thread.

[FuzzyDunlop]

How hot was it 2017 wednesday out of curiosity?

[mcmenace]

I don't want to jinx it so have cleaned the mud from my boots from an outdoor gig at the weekend, and washed my waterproofs. There you go weather gods.

Guys, Glastonbury is officially one week tomorrow! Eeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk

[Arcticz Liam]

3 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

How hot was it 2017 Wednesday out of curiosity?

Around 30 degrees...aka really fucking hot

[BluePaul]

3 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

How hot was it 2017 wednesday out of curiosity?

Hotter than 2010.  Yes really.  I actually burned my arm on the bare metal of a longdrop.

[Twisted Melon]

3 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

How hot was it 2017 wednesday out of curiosity?

2010 hot.