Weather Thread 2021

[gooner1990]

Looking good! 

[Skelts]

Looking similar on all of the weather websites at the moment.  Thank you weather Gods, this would be perfect weather, nice dry build up, not too hot, dry weekend for sitting around and chilling out before the evening shenanigans 👌 (feck, I'm getting excited now!)

[Flaminglippy]

4 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

Looking good! 

Be well happy with that! A few are showing showers. 

[guypjfreak]

Happy with that.... No M.. 

[gooner1990]

Still looking good!

[Quark]

I'll 100% take that for the weekend.

[Skelts]

Perfect festival weather 🙂

[gooner1990]

🙄

[Flaminglippy]

FFS...finally looks like the ticket issue is being sorted now they are forecasting bloody rain! 

Don't mind a bit of rain to be fair...particularly at night when back in the tent. The rain on the Friday in particular at the last Beautiful Days was a bit much. 

I remember a Kendal Calling where it literally rained non-stop for the whole 4 days...I was there on the Sunday, watching Tom Odell (not through choice, my chair was sinking so far into the mud I didn't have the energy to try and pull it out and move) thinking 'I'm too old for this shit'. Athlete stopped halfway through their set to do a running commentary on people at the back of the main stage who were sliding down the hill in the mud. 

[Skelts]

Hopefully that’s just an outlier on that websites latest model. It’s much less pessimistic over on the Met Office. Not much in the way of sun but only 10% chance of rain 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcj8zrxj8#?date=2021-08-21

[Skelts]

2 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

yr.no is really bad.
BBC getting worse

I vote Met Office, cos they are giving  a nice forecast

This is my approach to weather watching!

[Skelts]

Just watched country file. Seems there’s a good v evil battle between a high and low pressure area on Friday. All to play for. Come on High pressure, you can do it!

[guypjfreak]

Country file just did weather 

Not sure.. 

Looking a little bit wet 

[blutarsky]

BBC pretty pessimistic now… 

Thursday evening and Saturday morning are when the forecast gives the highest chance of rain, around 50%. 
So what it’s saying is there’s a chance of a dry festival! 
 

[Skelts]

1 hour ago, blutarsky said:

BBC pretty pessimistic now… 

Thursday evening and Saturday morning are when the forecast gives the highest chance of rain, around 50%. 
So what it’s saying is there’s a chance of a dry festival! 
 

Screw the BBC, the Met Office is where it's at!
Much lower predicted chance of rain and any rain that does come is likely to be a mild inconvenience at best.  I hope!

Like you say, still more chance of a dry festival than wet, whichever forecast you look at.

[blutarsky]

Just now, Skelts said:

Screw the BBC, the Met Office is where it's at!
Much lower predicted chance of rain and any rain that does come is likely to be a mild inconvenience at best.  I hope!

Like you say, still more chance of a dry festival than wet, whichever forecast you look at.

Doesn’t the BBC use met office data for its forecasts? 

[Skelts]

Just now, blutarsky said:

Doesn’t the BBC use met office data for its forecasts? 

No, they used to but use MeteoGroup now

[Skelts]

It's all looking a lot more positive now than it was earlier.

The BBC forecast is marginally better than the Met Office.  Go BBC!

[gooner1990]

Better…

[Skelts]

52 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

Met Office just updated and is awesomely lovely. I call stick

Absolutely, that looks much better!  

[blutarsky]

Met office doesn’t look too bad now - but very different to the BBC forecast…! 
 

Let’s go with MO

[Flaminglippy]

The BBC forecast looks like it is just targetting Beautiful Days.

[Skelts]

1 minute ago, Flaminglippy said:

The BBC forecast looks like it is just targetting Beautiful Days.

Frustrating isn't it, when you look at Monday onwards!

[Quark]

Given how quickly forecasts can change (and sometimes just be wrong) I'm going for blind optimism on reasonable weather.

After the last 18 months I honestly don#t know if a proper rainy festival would finish me off! 😭

[Skelts]

55 minutes ago, Quark said:

Given how quickly forecasts can change (and sometimes just be wrong) I'm going for blind optimism on reasonable weather.

After the last 18 months I honestly don#t know if a proper rainy festival would finish me off! 😭

I live about 20 miles from the site and the forecast for today is heavy cloud.  In reality, it's been a great day, sunshine, clouds, no rain.  We'd take this all day long.  So, yeah, forecasts aren't always reliable!

I think any rain in the forecasts is only light, and showers rather than prolonged rain.  It'll be fine 🤞