The Weather Thread 2024

[charlierc]

4 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Site getting a leathering over the last 24 hours.  We were so so lucky.

Down the road from me is Silverstone where a lot of people go camping for this weekend's British Grand Prix.

 

Suspect they'll need a lot of waterproofing judging by the hideous rain since about 5-6 yesterday evening.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Site getting a leathering over the last 24 hours.  We were so so lucky.

 

Crazy storm in Somerset in the very early hours this morning. Biblical rain, ridiculously loud thunder and lightning for about 15 straight minutes. Not sure it reached the farm (I'm about 30 minutes away) but if it did exactly 7 days previous, it would have been complete carnage. I think The Nal's reverse psychology is the real Pilton forcefield.

[Suprefan]

8 hours ago, Toilet Duck said:

Overnight low above is in the low 30s, not 40!…currently in Doha, same overnight lows…balmy in the evening! Short sleeves and beautiful for night swimming, walks and eating outdoors. All depends on humidity not absolute temp. Anyway, festival isn’t in California! 

comparing it to the other festival that happens here if it was this weekend. Also, Palm Springs hit 124 yesterday as a high which is a new record. Hell on earth thats for sure. Would be tempted to go to a concert out there today cause this kind of weather turns people off from attending and resale drops but I think staying home is the move

[Toilet Duck]

2 hours ago, Suprefan said:

comparing it to the other festival that happens here if it was this weekend. Also, Palm Springs hit 124 yesterday as a high which is a new record. Hell on earth thats for sure. Would be tempted to go to a concert out there today cause this kind of weather turns people off from attending and resale drops but I think staying home is the move

124 is hot alright! Was 112 here today with little or no breeze…granted I didn’t get up to much but float in the pool from time to time!

[Skip997]

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcn5n88mb#?nearestTo=Pilton (Somerset)&date=2024-07-07

[charlierc]

20 hours ago, Suprefan said:

comparing it to the other festival that happens here if it was this weekend. Also, Palm Springs hit 124 yesterday as a high which is a new record. Hell on earth thats for sure. Would be tempted to go to a concert out there today cause this kind of weather turns people off from attending and resale drops but I think staying home is the move

It is wild how warm it is in the South West US.

 

Uruguay v Brazil in the Copa America in Las Vegas last night in a week of heat way in excess of 40 degree C (or 104 F) sounds like an ordeal for everyone.

[charlierc]

On 7/6/2024 at 9:51 AM, charlierc said:

Down the road from me is Silverstone where a lot of people go camping for this weekend's British Grand Prix.

 

Suspect they'll need a lot of waterproofing judging by the hideous rain since about 5-6 yesterday evening.

Sure enough I've heard of people getting tents flooded or ruined by a particularly bad thunderstorm at around 3am yesterday morning.

 

Today seems drier so far. But then there's still be a brief lick of the damp stuff and it's a very low bar to be drier than getting saturated by a thunderstorm.

[Suprefan]

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

1 hour ago, Suprefan said:

 

Good to know that pre festival even Camilla was desperate for the Azores finger 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Ayrshire Chris said:

Good to know that pre festival even Camilla was desperate for the Azores finger 

dont you mean sausage fingers ? 

[4AssedMonkey]

We're off to Hurgada in Egypt next Monday for the family holiday.  Current heatwave (even for there) and this week it's been 42degC in the day, 25degC at night.  Thank Cthulu the rooms will have aircon or I'd die in that.  I'll be at the swim up bar ALL day.

[Ayrshire Chris]

40 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

We're off to Hurgada in Egypt next Monday for the family holiday.  Current heatwave (even for there) and this week it's been 42degC in the day, 25degC at night.  Thank Cthulu the rooms will have aircon or I'd die in that.  I'll be at the swim up bar ALL day.

Enjoy!

[CharlotteB]

Come back, please, summer! I miss youuuuuu!

[hodgey123]

I’m getting married in Bath on Saturday. The weather beforehand is great, but the weather on the day looks in the balance with a 30-50% chance of some rain at some stage. Where are the GFS maps that @briddj shared in here from and is there any way I can get them online for Bath? 

[fred quimby]

1 hour ago, hodgey123 said:

I’m getting married in Bath on Saturday. The weather beforehand is great, but the weather on the day looks in the balance with a 30-50% chance of some rain at some stage. Where are the GFS maps that @briddj shared in here from and is there any way I can get them online for Bath? 

Hi looking a little patchy sadly. I live near there.

 

 

Just to say I hope your Glastonbury was a good one. 

Mrs Q and I raised a glass to your Mum on Thursday night.

Must be a roller coaster for you. Have an incredible wedding on Saturday whatever the weather 

[Alvoram]

2 hours ago, hodgey123 said:

I’m getting married in Bath on Saturday. The weather beforehand is great, but the weather on the day looks in the balance with a 30-50% chance of some rain at some stage. Where are the GFS maps that @briddj shared in here from and is there any way I can get them online for Bath? 

Congratulations, hope you enjoy your big day... 

Those charts were from here https://www.netweather.tv/charts-and-data/gfs

You'll see a grid of numbers, ignore that for now, then underneath you'll see 4 drop down boxes, ignore the two on the right for now. 
 

In the top left drop down box, where it says "Choose Chart Type"
Choose Height 500hpa + SLP for the pressure charts.
Choose UK max Temp for, you guessed it, max temp.
Choose UK Precipitation for the rain. 

The box directly beneath that, which reads "Current," is where you choose between the most recent (current) run, or the previous one, done 6 hours before. Sometimes the most recent one is still 'in progress' (The GFS is run every 6 hours, with each run labelled 00z 06z 12z or 18z, where the number refers to the hour in 24 hour format. So a 06z is the 6am run.)

Once you've set both of those drop down boxes use the slider (Or arrows << | >> either side) to move between times in 3 hour increments. The time and date is indicated in the top right of the image, so "Valid Wed 17/07 21:00" means just what it says, that this slide is showing the current run's prediction for that time and date. 

If you set the two drop down boxes on the right in the same way, you can do comparisons between different runs, or different chart types on the same run. 

Hope this helps.

But try not to worry, it doesn't look like much will fall before the early afternoon Saturday, and still early days yet, it's all to play for, hopefully this gets delayed further to Sunday. Or held up North entirely by that North Atlantic low not dipping down so far. 🤞

Edited July 16, 2024 by Alvoram

[hodgey123]

9 hours ago, fred quimby said:

Hi looking a little patchy sadly. I live near there.

 

 

Just to say I hope your Glastonbury was a good one. 

Mrs Q and I raised a glass to your Mum on Thursday night.

Must be a roller coaster for you. Have an incredible wedding on Saturday whatever the weather 

 

Thank you, really appreciate that. It was one of my best yet.

[hodgey123]

8 hours ago, Alvoram said:

Congratulations, hope you enjoy your big day... 

Those charts were from here https://www.netweather.tv/charts-and-data/gfs

You'll see a grid of numbers, ignore that for now, then underneath you'll see 4 drop down boxes, ignore the two on the right for now. 
 

In the top left drop down box, where it says "Choose Chart Type"
Choose Height 500hpa + SLP for the pressure charts.
Choose UK max Temp for, you guessed it, max temp.
Choose UK Precipitation for the rain. 

The box directly beneath that, which reads "Current," is where you choose between the most recent (current) run, or the previous one, done 6 hours before. Sometimes the most recent one is still 'in progress' (The GFS is run every 6 hours, with each run labelled 00z 06z 12z or 18z, where the number refers to the hour in 24 hour format. So a 06z is the 6am run.)

Once you've set both of those drop down boxes use the slider (Or arrows << | >> either side) to move between times in 3 hour increments. The time and date is indicated in the top right of the image, so "Valid Wed 17/07 21:00" means just what it says, that this slide is showing the current run's prediction for that time and date. 

If you set the two drop down boxes on the right in the same way, you can do comparisons between different runs, or different chart types on the same run. 

Hope this helps.

But try not to worry, it doesn't look like much will fall before the early afternoon Saturday, and still early days yet, it's all to play for, hopefully this gets delayed further to Sunday. Or held up North entirely by that North Atlantic low not dipping down so far. 🤞

 

Thanks a lot, extremely clear! Wish I hadn't asked now as the latest run shows rain plonked right over the venue virtually all day!

[Alvoram]

52 minutes ago, hodgey123 said:

 

Thanks a lot, extremely clear! Wish I hadn't asked now as the latest run shows rain plonked right over the venue virtually all day!

Latest run has the rain shifted North a touch and arriving in Bath a little later, not to mention it looks like much lighter rain in the area. Plus, look at those temperatures!!! I'm telling you... It's moving in the right direction... You've got this!!! 💪

🤞

(We all need to just will it to happen, like before the festival, to shift the weather for Hodgey's big day!!!)

[hodgey123]

36 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

Latest run has the rain shifted North a touch and arriving in Bath a little later, not to mention it looks like much lighter rain in the area. Plus, look at those temperatures!!! I'm telling you... It's moving in the right direction... You've got this!!! 💪

🤞

(We all need to just will it to happen, like before the festival, to shift the weather for Hodgey's big day!!!)

 

Fingers crossed! We only need it not to rain between 14:00 and 16:00, everything else we can deal with...

[FuzzyDunlop]

Weather has been "my kind of festival weather" for Weeks.

 

Im going to Beatherder tomorrow...  30°.

 

erm... no.

 

 

[gigpusher]

On 7/16/2024 at 9:59 PM, hodgey123 said:

I’m getting married in Bath on Saturday. The weather beforehand is great, but the weather on the day looks in the balance with a 30-50% chance of some rain at some stage. Where are the GFS maps that @briddj shared in here from and is there any way I can get them online for Bath? 

Congratulations. Hope you are doing ok.

[efcfanwirral]

I've got Y Not Festival at the end of the month and it looks like some absolutely perfect festival weather - High 21 or 22 and Low 14 each day and almost no rain. Really hoping it stays that way!

Edited July 19, 2024 by efcfanwirral

[Pinhead]

Have got Beautiful Days mid Aug - it always rains at Beautiful Days........   

[Alvoram]

On 7/17/2024 at 11:14 AM, hodgey123 said:

 

Fingers crossed! We only need it not to rain between 14:00 and 16:00, everything else we can deal with...

How'd it go Hodgey? hoping it went well and you got some dry hours for those photos!!!

Was forecast to rain here, right up to the very hours they were forecasting rain for, but it never came at all, overcast at times, but a nice day all things considered. 

And congratulations again.