The Weather Thread 2022

[squirrelarmy]

Exactly 3 months until we’re walking through the gates. Time to start looking at the long term forecasts. 
 

@The Nal as our resident weather expert, what’s your prediction?

[Matt42]

Fucking worst time to be inside due to COVID. It’s starting to get glorious.

[Euphoricape]

16 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Fucking worst time to be inside due to COVID. It’s starting to get glorious.

I have covid too for the 3rd time. Still have to go to work though now just masked up. Barely any symptoms this time tbh.

[Euphoricape]

18 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

Exactly 3 months until we’re walking through the gates. Time to start looking at the long term forecasts. 
 

@The Nal as our resident weather expert, what’s your prediction?

We need the lady with the big dog and the well. The only accurate forecast.

[blutarsky]

14 hours ago, Euphoricape said:

We need the lady with the big dog and the well. The only accurate forecast.

Do you consider yourself a lady @deebeedoobee? 

Sadly Big Dog is now running around and peeing on trees in the big field in the sky. 

Edited March 23, 2022 by blutarsky

[gigpusher]

Have you seen the news about Gav of Gav's weather news. Fingers crossed he'll be ok as looks like it has been caught early. 

[guypjfreak]

I spoke to a lovely lady from seetix last night and we agreed that it was too ooo hot last time.. 

[Slugy]

AccuWeather do their weather 90 days in advance and Glasto is in 91 days. The very inAccuWeather rainy day before Glasto can't dampen my spirits.

[Hotchilidog]

Just now, Slugy said:

AccuWeather do their weather 90 days in advance and Glasto is in 91 days. The very inAccuWeather rainy day before Glasto can't dampen my spirits.

And so it begins! Woo hoo!

[kalifire]

If their forecast for June is accurate (it’s not this far out), that’s a decent spell for the build.

[gooner1990]

1 minute ago, kalifire said:

If their forecast for June is accurate (it’s not this far out), that’s a decent spell for the build.

People tend to forget that good weather for the build is also essential.

Its before my time, but I do believe 1997 was atrocious for the build and that's what led to most of the mud rather than the actual weather over the weekend of the festival.

[BambooShanks]

2 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

People tend to forget that good weather for the build is also essential.

Definitely. The weather itself in 2016 wasn't that terrible but the build up was horrendous. 

Seeing  videos of rivers of water flowing underneath the ground which more resembled a water bed than a field still makes me shudder.

[gooner1990]

1 minute ago, BambooShanks said:

Definitely. The weather itself in 2016 wasn't that terrible but the build up was horrendous. 

Seeing  videos of rivers of water flowing underneath the ground which more resembled a water bed than a field still makes me shudder.

Yep.

One of my friends works in the 'industry' and was already on site sending us videos of the state of the site from Monday onwards....almost made me feel sick!

2016 rained one day I think the Saturday afternoon, but I can't recall much apart from that, sadly the damage was really done in the build up.

[BambooShanks]

2 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

2016 rained one day I think the Saturday afternoon, but I can't recall much apart from that

It rained a little each day. Annoyingly always enough to keep the mud at that horrible, welly sucking state

[gooner1990]

Just now, BambooShanks said:

It rained a little each day. Annoyingly always enough to keep the mud at that horrible, welly sucking state

Boots are the way forward.

[gfa]

17 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Fucking worst time to be inside due to COVID. It’s starting to get glorious.

You'll have great immunity for the festival though, i've not had it since July and am terrified i'm going to end up getting it

[squirrelarmy]

16 minutes ago, BambooShanks said:

Definitely. The weather itself in 2016 wasn't that terrible but the build up was horrendous. 

Seeing  videos of rivers of water flowing underneath the ground which more resembled a water bed than a field still makes me shudder.

Reminds me off that vid where you see the water bubbling out of the ground. Think it was @Sawdusty surfer who posted it originally. 

[Hotchilidog]

1 hour ago, BambooShanks said:

Definitely. The weather itself in 2016 wasn't that terrible but the build up was horrendous. 

Seeing  videos of rivers of water flowing underneath the ground which more resembled a water bed than a field still makes me shudder.

This is spot on. The damage was done prior to the festival in 2016. The site was so waterlogged prior to everyone turning up it just simply could not recover once it had been churned. As others have said ironically it didn't actually rain that much during the festival itself, although the Friday or saturday showers scuppered any hopes of a recovery for good foot conditions on the Sunday. I'm as interested in the pre festival weather as the weather for the festival itself.

Edited March 23, 2022 by Hotchilidog

[deebeedoobee]

6 hours ago, blutarsky said:

Do you consider yourself a lady @deebeedoobee? 

Sadly Big Dog is now running around and peeing on trees in the big field in the sky. 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha....of pilton manor, of course.

[gigpusher]

3 hours ago, Hotchilidog said:

This is spot on. The damage was done prior to the festival in 2016. The site was so waterlogged prior to everyone turning up it just simply could not recover once it had been churned. As others have said ironically it didn't actually rain that much during the festival itself, although the Friday or saturday showers scuppered any hopes of a recovery for good foot conditions on the Sunday. I'm as interested in the pre festival weather as the weather for the festival itself.

Yep if it's a shitshow while they are doing the build and on the Tuesday and Wednesday it can be hard to recover from. 

[a6l6e6x]

Rain the day before glasto on the 90 day forecast?

F*ck that I ain't going

[Hugh Jass II]

1 minute ago, a6l6e6x said:

Rain the day before glasto on the 90 day forecast?

[Leyrulion]

13 hours ago, gooner1990 said:

People tend to forget that good weather for the build is also essential.

Its before my time, but I do believe 1997 was atrocious for the build and that's what led to most of the mud rather than the actual weather over the weekend of the festival.

I sort of forget that there's another 100k workers/volunteers/food vendors etc that start arriving from the week before- they'll churn up any mud. 

Before you even start thinking about all the heavy equipment needed to install everything.

[Calvin Klein]

On 3/23/2022 at 8:25 AM, BambooShanks said:

It rained a little each day. Annoyingly always enough to keep the mud at that horrible, welly sucking state

definitely rained during the night/early morning a few times. And Sunday looked horrible as well.

[Crazyfool01]

Bloody glorious weather in Somerset and around the country I’m sure … perfect resale weather … lovely to enjoy my garden