The Weather Thread 2024

[Sack truck]

2 hours ago, gigpusher said:

It genuinely feels like we haven't had more than a few days of dry weather at a time since the scorcher that was Glastonbury last year. Maybe I just notice it more because I have been out walking more.

Exactly this- got a scorcher then it has rained pretty much non stop with only a few dry days here and there. Was saying this yesterday as been a nightmare trying to cut the grass since then.

[gherkin8r]

1 hour ago, pilton digger said:

All is calm. We don't hold with this science stuff really. All guessery and computer posturing. It rains, it doesnt rain, all the same really. Wait until the start of June and we will see what really is happening. There will be weather whatever we do. 

Keep the faith.

That's the right answer!

[squirrelarmy]

On 4/3/2024 at 2:02 PM, gigpusher said:

Yes way too early for panic stations

Are you sure? 
 

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/forecasters-predict-extremely-active-2024-atlantic-hurricane-season-2024-04-04/

Any weather on the East Coast of the US has an effect on the west coast of the UK. 
 

I don’t think we’ll be having the wellies vs walking boots debate this year. It’s going to be wellies vs waders. 

[Franky]

4 hours ago, squirrelarmy said:

Are you sure? 
 

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/forecasters-predict-extremely-active-2024-atlantic-hurricane-season-2024-04-04/

Any weather on the East Coast of the US has an effect on the west coast of the UK. 
 

I don’t think we’ll be having the wellies vs walking boots debate this year. It’s going to be wellies vs waders. 

Heretic! Burn the Witch 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Sheffield Steve]

The soil moisture figures for the end of March are out.  Despite the exceptionally wet March, things seem to be drying out slightly over southern England, but not much in the Pilton area - still officially at the highest level of “very wet”. 
But with the forecast of drier weather for the second half of April (finally), the situation should be much better by the end of this month. 

March:

 

 

Previous 4 months:

[Lycra]

11 hours ago, Sheffield Steve said:

The soil moisture figures for the end of March are out.  Despite the exceptionally wet March, things seem to be drying out slightly over southern England, but not much in the Pilton area - still officially at the highest level of “very wet”. 
But with the forecast of drier weather for the second half of April (finally), the situation should be much better by the end of this month. 

March:

 

 

Previous 4 months:

Didn't winter/spring 2016 have a similar rainfall/ground water pattern for the south west?......... And we can remember what happened at that summer's Glasto! 

[Sheffield Steve]

Now the webcam is back, we can see it’s looking much drier behind the pyramid where it was waterlogged a couple of weeks ago. Looks like they’ve been doing some work back there…

 

 

Edited April 10, 2024 by Sheffield Steve

[Jacko45]

@Sheffield SteveWill it just ever stop raining? 

[Sheffield Steve]

37 minutes ago, Lycra said:

Didn't winter/spring 2016 have a similar rainfall/ground water pattern for the south west?......... And we can remember what happened at that summer's Glasto! 

Actually although winter/spring 2016 was wet it was nowhere near as wet as the one we’ve just had… let’s just hope it’s getting all the rain out of the way now…

 

2016:

 

[Sheffield Steve]

14 minutes ago, Jacko45 said:

@Sheffield SteveWill it just ever stop raining? 

There is some hope on the horizon… after weeks and weeks of non-stop rain, the models pretty much agree that by the end of next week we’ll have an area of high pressure over the country, something we haven’t seen for a very long time.. some models go back to rain pretty quickly, others stick with the high pressure.. the end could be in sight..

 

[Lycra]

5 minutes ago, Sheffield Steve said:

There is some hope on the horizon… after weeks and weeks of non-stop rain, the models pretty much agree that by the end of next week we’ll have an area of high pressure over the country, something we haven’t seen for a very long time.. some models go back to rain pretty quickly, others stick with the high pressure.. the end could be in sight..

 

Let's hope you're right. We're all fed up of this rain. But has you say however other models are that promising. We've just been musing about a possible correlation between muddy glasto's and el nino events. There's some evidence to suggest a wet muddy GF coincides with the weakening of el nino events, as it happening right now 🤔 

[Crazyfool01]

1 hour ago, Sheffield Steve said:

Now the webcam is back, we can see it’s looking much drier behind the pyramid where it was waterlogged a couple of weeks ago. Looks like they’ve been doing some work back there…

 

 

Didn’t see any signs of much going on when we were there a few weeks back . I guess the cherry picker is there ready to put the covers on when they get a break in the weather … 

[Neil]

is the rain ever going to stop - just got soaked. 😞 

[squirrelarmy]

5 hours ago, Lycra said:

Didn't winter/spring 2016 have a similar rainfall/ground water pattern for the south west?......... And we can remember what happened at that summer's Glasto! 

So this years big footwear question is going to be Wellies or Waders. 

[Crazyfool01]

11 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

So this years big footwear question is going to be Wellies or Waders. 

You’ve definately gone negative this year … lots of time yet 

[Franky]

2010 all over again  woohoo

[CharlotteB]

So rumour has it the next few days are going to be....sunny? Wow!

Edited April 10, 2024 by CharlotteB

[Neil]

11 minutes ago, CharlotteB said:

So rumour has it the next few days are going to be....sunny? Wow!

thats a brave rumour to start. 😛 

[Crazyfool01]

13 minutes ago, CharlotteB said:

So rumour has it the next few days are going to be....sunny? Wow!

warm rather than sunny I think 🙂 well 19 degrees warm 

[Neil]

41 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

warm rather than sunny I think 🙂 well 19 degrees warm 

An outlandish rumour then!

[Ayrshire Chris]

Bit of warm dry weather, no rain, allows the land to drain, just before the trucks start to deliver for the build.😊

[Neil]

11 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Bit of warm dry weather, no rain, allows the land to drain, just before the trucks start to deliver for the build.😊

that land doesn't really drain, it needs growing stuff to suck the water from its depths.

Edited April 10, 2024 by Neil

[Ayrshire Chris]

9 hours ago, Neil said:

that land doesn't really drain, it needs growing stuff to suck the water from its depths.

Ok, so a bit of heat and sun, get the grass growing, trees into leaf and increase the transpiration process! 

[squirrelarmy]

9 hours ago, Neil said:

that land doesn't really drain, it needs growing stuff to suck the water from its depths.

Are you upgrading your scooter to a half-track this year?

[Crazyfool01]

9 hours ago, Neil said:

that land doesn't really drain, it needs growing stuff to suck the water from its depths.

I mean it drains pretty quickly with a little sun . Have seen it go from swamp like to solid over the space of a few days . And that’s before they added loads of extra drainage