The Weather Thread 2022

[Superscally]

13 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Yeah, gaiters are the ultimate answer to wellies, I agree.  But if you can't be arsed with them (I can't), then wellies are better.  By my reckoning, if it's wet enough for wellies, it's not sticky enough for boots.

Boots comfier though...

[scrippit]

Pretty average weather for Glastonbury. No idea what all the fuss is about.

[steviewevie]

If it's knee deep wet mud wellies probably better...if it's just wet grass and mud in busy areas, boots probably better. If it's thick sticky mud it's all shit whatever you wear.

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, scrippit said:

Pretty average weather for Glastonbury. No idea what all the fuss is about.

Nal taking the piss/winding everybody up like every year and everybody falling for it and going in to a blind panic, like every year, basically. 

Also don’t think most people are being entirely serious - just equal parts funny and ridiculous to follow weather forecasts so religiously and cheer or scream at any tiny change. A yearly tradition.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

15 minutes ago, ericlered said:

I'm screwed then!

😂 I'll sit back and laugh as your tent heads skywards.

[Brad2434]

There’s not a chance I’m even taking wellies for that forecast. Best forecast I’ve had before a Glastonbury!

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Boots comfier though...

Yeah, probably. I had a bad experience with buying gaiters from a stall in 2004 while somewhat worse for wear.  There was a fold in them that I didn't feel and I ended up getting crutches from the medical tent the next day.  And yes, I know the moral of this isn't gaiters bad, but it still put me off.

Anyway, we're defs in normal boot territory this year.

[Barney McGrew]

As of 11:30 it's looking pretty sweet HERE.

It's gonna be glorious!

[fightoffyour]

28 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

If we all agree to drop the temps Wednesday, Thursday & Friday to 19 & dry, we then push up Sat & Sun's to the same?

Deal?

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[steviewevie]

Is there an officlal worst year weather wise at Glastonbury? Last one I went to was 2011...and I didn't go in 2007...so I haven't experienced some recent bad ones...but I did go in 97/98...so for me 97 was the worst with 98 a close second (but I left early for that one).

[LinvoyPrimus]

5 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Nal taking the piss/winding everybody up like every year and everybody falling for it and going in to a blind panic, like every year, basically. 

Also don’t think most people are being entirely serious - just equal parts funny and ridiculous to follow weather forecasts so religiously and cheer or scream at any tiny change. A yearly tradition.

Not everyone is in this thread every year, so a *lot* of people aren't in on the joke.

It's very hard to detect the sarcasm in a thread that is also filled with everyone and their mate offering something of an expert (ish) opinion. 

[The Nal]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

Is there an officlal worst year weather wise at Glastonbury? Last one I went to was 2011...and I didn't go in 2007...so I haven't experienced some recent bad ones...but I did go in 97/98...so for me 97 was the worst with 98 a close second (but I left early for that one).

07 was the wettest

[scaryclaireyfairy]

2007 was the worst in the last 20 years. I only have small patches of memory of it, it was so bad. 2016 was a stroll in comparison.

[Lucy92]

2 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Is there an officlal worst year weather wise at Glastonbury? Last one I went to was 2011...and I didn't go in 2007...so I haven't experienced some recent bad ones...but I did go in 97/98...so for me 97 was the worst with 98 a close second (but I left early for that one).

2016 was pretty horrid just from the mud 

[Glasto Weatherwatch]

1998 and 2007 the worst for me by a country mile. Mud plus lots of rain during the weekend. 

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, LinvoyPrimus said:

Not everyone is in this thread every year, so a *lot* of people aren't in on the joke.

It's very hard to detect the sarcasm in a thread that is also filled with everyone and their mate offering something of an expert (ish) opinion. 

Which makes it all the more hilarious. Some people clearly don’t think so, but Nal’s constant over-dooming at the sight of even the slightest bit of rain is the best part of the thread imo - the actual forecasts are meaningless as almost every year past have proven. 

[FuzzyDunlop]

I wish I went in 2007, just to see what I thought of it.

[brettredmayne]

Just now, FuzzyDunlop said:

I wish I went in 2007, just to see what I thought of it.

It rained and rained and we had no let up at all from Wednesday to Sunday 

[FloorFiller]

Just now, FuzzyDunlop said:

I wish I went in 2007, just to see what I thought of it.

The height of indie landfill and crap weather to boot? Makes me kinda glad I didn’t start going until a few years later.

[Johnnyseven]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Is there an officlal worst year weather wise at Glastonbury? Last one I went to was 2011...and I didn't go in 2007...so I haven't experienced some recent bad ones...but I did go in 97/98...so for me 97 was the worst with 98 a close second (but I left early for that one).

My first was '98, that was definitely the worst for me. I see people say 2011 and 2016 were bad but compared to '98 they were nothing.

I sometimes think it was good to go to one at which the weather was so bad as my first as I don't really mind the mud now, it's never been as bad (at ones i've been to) as that first one was. Think about the whole festival only being able to walk along the metal trackways in the market areas as the water/mud was at least ankle deep everywhere else and when standing watching a band you had to constantly lift your legs up to pull them out of the mud so that they didn't get permanently stuck there.   

[FuzzyDunlop]

1 minute ago, brettredmayne said:

It rained and rained and we had no let up at all from Wednesday to Sunday 

That's why I wish I'd gone. Cos I genuinely don't think it'd bother me... especially then at age 23, but I could be wrong.

2 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

The height of indie landfill and crap weather to boot? Makes me kinda glad I didn’t start going until a few years later.

That'd have been a far bigger issue than the weather. 

[squirrelarmy]

16 minutes ago, Brad2434 said:

There’s not a chance I’m even taking wellies for that forecast. Best forecast I’ve had before a Glastonbury!

Don’t be putting a curse on us. The welly gods don’t like it when you don’t pay tribute. 

[Quark]

12 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

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Ha, used to hate that bit of Theme Park!

[FuzzyDunlop]

Just now, Quark said:

Ha, used to hate that bit of Theme Park!

THATS IT! I was trying to remember

[Greenelk]

4 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

That's why I wish I'd gone. Cos I genuinely don't think it'd bother me... especially then at age 23, but I could be wrong.

It was pretty soul destroying.  You were always wet, which made you cold.  Nowhere to sit down at all, as the site was liquid mud, you got back to your tent, and everything got covered in the mud.  We lost some of our group that year (as in, they didn't go back again, not a lost in the liquid landscape, never to be seen again sort of lost).  One of them got a really bad chest infection due to the wet and cold, and hasn't been to a festival since.

It was grim

Edited June 20, 2022 by Greenelk