glastonbury 26 weather

[Crazyfool01]

2 hours ago, dotdash79 said:

Not a festival, but just got back form a stay at portaventura in Spain, and they have introduced misting sprays and also water areas where people can get sprayed with lots of water. We were there and ti was very hot and humid, in fact you could even se the locals struggling with the heat that we've never really seen before.

Yeah can see those being used around the queues and then being moved into the festival site as they die down … fire brigade have dowsed people down in the past 

[Crazyfool01]

11 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

No rain forecast for at least 10 days (in this area), how long before we have to introduce hosepipe and car wash bans?

 

 

Yeah can’t be far away here 😞 

[The Nal]

We've a 6 week hosepipe ban as of today here (Dublin). 

 

 

[steviewevie]

It's all gone a bit Mad Max round my way.

[dotdash79]

47 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Yeah can see those being used around the queues and then being moved into the festival site as they die down … fire brigade have dowsed people down in the past 

I was in ibiza as well and the club I was at had misting spays in front of fans, in fact a few places in Rome had them. They were very nice. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

On clay soil does that not just turn the area around it muddy?

[philipsteak]

Some friends from the south were visiting at the weekend, couldn't believe how green it still is around here (Lake District) but then there's just an underlying sogginess here that takes a very prolonged dry spell to dry out. 

Did a hike on Tuesday over a notoriously boggy route. essentially the best time to do it is winter when it's frozen or after a hot dry spell. 

It was way dryer than usual but impressively still a fair few boggy bits

[dotdash79]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

On clay soil does that not just turn the area around it muddy?

Maybe they would put drains in so it doesn't get muddy, like with some of the handwashing stations

[Ayrshire Chris]

In 2016 it actually got harder to walk when the mud began to slightly dry and became really sticky as the weekend progressed. 

[Spindles]

16 hours ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Yeah can see those being used around the queues and then being moved into the festival site as they die down … fire brigade have dowsed people down in the past 

In 2017 we arrived on Wednesday afternoon, on the hottest day of the year and we got a nice misting between the coach park and the gate, they also gave us each a free can of water.  This was impressive as we'd got the shuttle from bath and west, in an empty air conditioned coach and only had to walk about 100 meters because the fence path had been opened up.

 

15 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

On clay soil does that not just turn the area around it muddy?

Surprisingly not.  My experience of stewards misting/spraying in both 2010 and 2017 was that the area around them was a little moist, but not muddy and barely a few meters around them showed any sign at all.

 

It's that dust, nature's desiccant at work.  2010 particularly the campsites looked like a Saharan refugee camp by the Sunday.

[balti-pie]

22 hours ago, Crazyfool01 said:

How are people coping with the heat in terms of festivals this year ? Anyone spotted any obvious extra measures festivals have put on to mitigate the heat ? 

Bloodstock have announced that theyve got some mist cannon type things to put in front of both main stages, to fire off and try and cool the moshpit type areas - that will be blissful cos its a surprisingly hot place when the sun is beating down - you'd think nice green leafy derbyshire would be ok but it doesnt half bake when its warm. Same site as Bearded Theory but thats late may, and mid august for bloodstock always notches up the heat a tad - they had mid thirties a couple of years ago, the corpse paint doesnt take it well! 

[Suprefan]

Meanwhile in Chicago. Rained overnight at Lolla. Now they pushed back opening til the afternoon. But thunderstorms and lightning forecast. Maybe if the city invested in proper drainage they couldve tried to salvage the day.

[charlierc]

53 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

Meanwhile in Chicago. Rained overnight at Lolla. Now they pushed back opening til the afternoon. But thunderstorms and lightning forecast. Maybe if the city invested in proper drainage they couldve tried to salvage the day.

Crikey.

 

I remember Muse cancelling a Lolla headline set in 2017 due to a massive thunderstorm after only 3 songs. Clearly this is an area of the world where the storms don't f**k around.