Where's our weather thread?

[ben dover]

funny watching this thread as i have done, obsessively, the last couple of fests.

All websites got everything wrong in 2005.

The friday am downpour was only predicted on the thursday morning and not to that extreme.

I watched the beeb this morning and it wasn't even reporting the present weather accurately let alone predicting it correctly.

Anything can happen although we are due a good one.

[surfgurl]

Remember in 2005 Somerset hadn't had much rain, the ground was very dry. So when it rained the ground couldn't start to absorb it, the water just hung about on the surface. From memory we had more rain that friday morning than we had had for months. In the past month or so we have had a few very nice days, but quite a few days of steady rain.

I can't predict whether it will rain or not, but I think with the rain we have had softening the ground and allowing future rainwater to soak in, together with Mr Eavis' drainage in the lower field, we should be ok. I don't think we will have rivers through tents this year.

[glastoismylife]

not worth checking until 5 days before, on the bbc website. i dont see how they can predict any sort of weather accurately fully 2 weeks before the day in question. just doesnt make sense.

[Craigston]

not worth checking until 5 days before, on the bbc website. i dont see how they can predict any sort of weather accurately fully 2 weeks before the day in question. just doesnt make sense.

[paddydog]

funny watching this thread as i have done, obsessively, the last couple of fests.

All websites got everything wrong in 2005.

The friday am downpour was only predicted on the thursday morning and not to that extreme.

[Guest blackcockerel]

I spent two weeks before my wedding last month watching Metcheck. I won't be again, their long term forecasts are terrible, they were forecasting temperatures of about 10 degrees! They couldn't have got it more wrong

[William of Walworth]

Will people PLEASE stop quoting sodding Metcheck???!!!!!

[William of Walworth]

Will people PLEASE stop putting any faith whatsoever in anything metcheck says? thanks.

[paddydog]

One of the Netweather forecast team has started a blog over there - daily Glasto foractst updates!

That should give you something to think about, WoW...

Blog: http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=...e=view;blog=213

[ukdaasfan]

8-10mm is not even a 10th! of the 2005 storms! Thats a lot of rain lol last time I went was 2000 went every year it was on from 92 until then. Was 2005 the most heavy rainfull ever at Glasto?

I almost died one year in the late 90's (literaly) I collapsed in a puddle when it was really wet and cold and luckily was rescued by the cops and taken to the medical tent, stripped and wrapped in space blankets

Thanks

Alex

[Late]

I see metcheck have changed their minds about Thursday being really wet. Now they are saying Wednesday.

[slipmatt]

Its amusing how we all check all the sites, yet we know deep down we won't know till we get there.

My g/f keeps telling me to stop checking the site... But I can't - ya know what I mean?

[Dancing Sandwich]

Nearest I have come to that was in Abu Dhabi when a tropical storm blow in from the indian sub continent.....

I saw a taxi get washed away....

[William of Walworth]

Its amusing how we all check all the sites, yet we know deep down we won't know till we get there.

My g/f keeps telling me to stop checking the site... But I can't - ya know what I mean?

[William of Walworth]

Blog: http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=...e=view;blog=213

Edited June 6, 2007 by William of Walworth

[Pipine]

I'm paying little to no attention to the weather sites til later next week... you can't forecast the weather with any degree of confidence this far ahead and metcheck ALWAYS lies

[William of Walworth]

Accuweather for Pilton now includes Wednesday 20th.

Rain on Tuesday, 'windy with sunny intervals' on Wednesday. Top temps Tues and Weds 20C.

Could go either way ...

[kamw642]

I've just come back from the Sunrise festival in Yeovil over the weekend. The forecast for the 5 days of the festival was heavy to light showers, cool and cloudy.

And what was the weather really like?! F*cking boiling! We all got sunburned! Glorious sunshine most of the time, warm breeze...perfect. So 5 day forecasts - even a few days before the event - are a load of shite.

[suze23]

Where are the budding meteorologist Glasto goers? We used to have a bevvy of clever scientific reports with 4 week forecasts back in 1999!!!

[paddydog]

Ooh, more useful information on Glastofestivalforecast.co.uk

[slicktony]

It's good to see that after a slow start this thread is now cooking on gas. It will always have a special place in my heart after it persuaded me that Armageddon was on the way in 2005 and to prepare accordingly.

Middling predictions so far, but y'know - April was Al Gore's worst nightmare and May was for the most part utterly disgusting, so lets hang on in there folks. The only thing that has really disturbed me so far is the guy from Netweather using the word 'washout' in his update last Saturday. That and BBC Somerset's Richard Angwin's teeth - no prizes for guessing why he has never made it to the big time...

[slipmatt]

LOL

[cavelier5]

It's good to see that after a slow start this thread is now cooking on gas. It will always have a special place in my heart after it persuaded me that Armageddon was on the way in 2005 and to prepare accordingly.

Middling predictions so far, but y'know - April was Al Gore's worst nightmare and May was for the most part utterly disgusting, so lets hang on in there folks. The only thing that has really disturbed me so far is the guy from Netweather using the word 'washout' in his update last Saturday. That and BBC Somerset's Richard Angwin's teeth - no prizes for guessing why he has never made it to the big time...

[comedyzebratorch@glasto07]

It's good to see that after a slow start this thread is now cooking on gas. It will always have a special place in my heart after it persuaded me that Armageddon was on the way in 2005 and to prepare accordingly.

Middling predictions so far, but y'know - April was Al Gore's worst nightmare and May was for the most part utterly disgusting, so lets hang on in there folks. The only thing that has really disturbed me so far is the guy from Netweather using the word 'washout' in his update last Saturday. That and BBC Somerset's Richard Angwin's teeth - no prizes for guessing why he has never made it to the big time...

[William of Walworth]

Ooh, more useful information on Glastofestivalforecast.co.uk