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The Weather Thread 2024


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Just now, Little Andy said:

What if it's raining when we arrive? Surely putting up a tent in the rain is gonna get everything wet!

Depends on the tent and your methods.

If it's an inner pitch first it can be a bit of a nightmare. But if it's an outer pitch first, then just pitch it at home, in the dry, add in the bedroom(s) and pack it away as one. 

You gotta keep all your bags and stuff dry whilst walking from the car parks, queuing and erecting the tent though, that's the challenge... Bin bags, dry sacs, whatever. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Little Andy said:

What if it's raining when we arrive? Surely putting up a tent in the rain is gonna get everything wet!


Waterproof cover for your big bag. Chuck it inside your pop up tent as soon as it’s up, and peg the tent down quickly. In you pop, find that cider, and bob’s your uncle. 

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35 minutes ago, Helsbels said:

Oh it was that one...I remember waking up to the Michael Jackson news. Maybe I was in bed when it rained. Pretty sure I had been up all night on the Wednesday beforehand 

Could have been worse. Someone told me Colin Jackson was dead.

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Couldn't handle the anxiety any longer, so drove two hours to the house of someone a friend told me makes cheese. I banged on his door and asked him what the forecast was - he told me it was eleven o-clock and he was sleeping. As was his wife. Then threatened to call the police.

 

Sitting in my car now before the long drive home, none the wiser. I don't know what I did wrong! I buried his sausage dog and everything!

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Just now, Rabocse said:

If we can keep getting these small corrections on each run things will improve

It will improve anyway... I swear we've had these odd two days of drama in the charts at the end of the week before for the last 2 years... Then it all comes good at the weekend. 🙂 

Maybe the wobble was a little earlier than this last year, can't really remember, but there definitely was a wobble, and we were still expecting 'some' rain right up until we departed. Only rain I saw all week was from the van, on the road, on Wednesday, sweated my knackers off the rest of the weekend... It'll be fine. 🙂 

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2 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

It will improve anyway... I swear we've had these odd two days of drama in the charts at the end of the week before for the last 2 years... Then it all comes good at the weekend. 🙂 

Maybe the wobble was a little earlier than this last year, can't really remember, but there definitely was a wobble, and we were still expecting 'some' rain right up until we departed. Only rain I saw all week was from the van, on the road, on Wednesday, sweated my knackers off the rest of the weekend... It'll be fine. 🙂 

It certainly was a hot one! I agree. Whatever happens it’ll be a blast. 

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7 minutes ago, Drew3232 said:

Couldn't handle the anxiety any longer, so drove two hours to the house of someone a friend told me makes cheese. I banged on his door and asked him what the forecast was - he told me it was eleven o-clock and he was sleeping. As was his wife. Then threatened to call the police.

 

Sitting in my car now before the long drive home, none the wiser. I don't know what I did wrong! I buried his sausage dog and everything!

 

🤣 oh well, try again tomorrow hey 

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That's not too bad. But these are the standards we have now.

 

No rain for the festival but it barely gets above 18 degrees. 

 

BUT it does have high pressure trying to push back in starting on Saturday, it just does nothing for us by Sunday. Is there hope this could be built on?

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