The Weather Thread 2024

[Skip997]

11 hours ago, Pinhead said:

it always rains at Beautiful Days........   

True 

 

It’s the weather gods punishment for far too many camping chairs and picnic blankets 

[hodgey123]

On 7/21/2024 at 10:59 PM, Alvoram said:

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.

 

It rained lightly on and off, but it didn't really impact the day much at all. The day before (19 July) was 30 degrees so I think everyone was slightly grateful it wasn't that hot on the day!

[charlierc]

Guess the weather being more normal for Glastonbury this year was a plus. Bad storm damaging stages at Leeds to the point where they can't be used and also compromising Creamfields sounds spectacularly crap.

[charlierc]

I know it's not strictly Glastonbury related but anyone else get woken up by a f**king massive thunderstorm last night?

[nikkic]

28 minutes ago, charlierc said:

I know it's not strictly Glastonbury related but anyone else get woken up by a f**king massive thunderstorm last night?

Yep.

And have just been for a run and got caught in another one.

Nothing like flashes of lightning to up your pace!

[charlierc]

27 minutes ago, nikkic said:

Yep.

And have just been for a run and got caught in another one.

Nothing like flashes of lightning to up your pace!

Oh I can bet. Full-on "RUN AWAY" stuff

[Neil]

i discovered this year that i can give a 20 minute warning of rain coming to worthy farm - when the rain passes my home.

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

They are not actually storms - it is a weather front, the things that used to just bring rain for a while but now because of warmer waters in the seas and oceans behave like storms and where we used to live lasted 5 hours the other day.

I have followed weather patterns for decades as my life is outside and quite weather reliant - this is all very new and different.

I suppose we will just have to get used to it and learn to row boats more often.

Still though, getting woken up at 3:30am by a load of rain, thunder and lightning is not the one. Whether it's a classic storm, changing weather fronts or part of the way the climate is going haywire, it was still a bit on the dramatic side.

[charlierc]

I know it's cliche to bring this up just because of the weather but my God the last week has been horrible with rain and heavy showers/outright storms. Hopefully the next 8 months won't be spent wondering about an excessive moisture build up in the ground for Worthy Farm goers, right?

[Ayrshire Chris]

8 minutes ago, charlierc said:

I know it's cliche to bring this up just because of the weather but my God the last week has been horrible with rain and heavy showers/outright storms. Hopefully the next 8 months won't be spent wondering about an excessive moisture build up in the ground for Worthy Farm goers, right?

Plenty time for the land to drain and the ground to bake hard for a perfect festival.

Let’s get the ticket day and line up obsessions out of the way before we start worrying about the weather! 

[charlierc]

48 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Plenty time for the land to drain and the ground to bake hard for a perfect festival.

Let’s get the ticket day and line up obsessions out of the way before we start worrying about the weather! 

Oh unquestionably there's time - still about 9 months outstanding. More just pondering if we're already hoping we don't get a winter and spring just full of the soggy stuff. Again.

[incident]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

I know it's cliche to bring this up just because of the weather but my God the last week has been horrible with rain and heavy showers/outright storms. Hopefully the next 8 months won't be spent wondering about an excessive moisture build up in the ground for Worthy Farm goers, right?

 

I mean the weather in winter and spring this year, up to about 3 weeks before the festival was pretty wet and horrid - including a months worth of rain in on the late May bank holiday weekend.

 

If that was all ok in the end, then I'm not sure we need to worry about what's happening 9 months out.

[philipsteak]

But windy

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

15 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

But windy

 

Yes, think the BBC have went a bit OTT with their wind prediction