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10 minutes ago, drm said:
never plain sailing at Glastonbury sadly ive done 6 ,05 the mighty friday storm,07 just miserable cold and wet,09 hot and thundery,2010 wow dustbowl 5days of hot blue skies 2013 thundery but warmish think the lead up is looking dry always good chance of showers saturday/sunday warm. the gfs seems to be improving as runs go on the ecm is keen to go the route of phase2 mjo not a desirable phase
Indeed. I've been the last 6 years and I think I've experienced every condition possible. Last year was particularly bad underfoot. Never ruined it for me though!
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And here's me thinking it was going to be plain sailing!
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Looking pretty steady this. Am I on the right forum?! ;-)
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Cheers J10.
Do we think the run up is going to remain quite dry?
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Let the suspense begin! Surely we're due a dry one. Last year was really really muddy!
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Apparently it has now stopped. Bring on the big dry out!
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I know the ground looks wet today but it dries quick and the forecast is for it to be dry between now and kick off. Then the amount of rain forecast during the festival is also minimal. The mudbath years of 2007 and 2005 were because of persistent rain throughout the festival. The odd downpour is managed with ease.
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To be honest, I'd rather this be the prospect than it being really hot. There isn't much shade at Glastonbury and sleeping in a tent when the sun comes up at 5am is pretty much impossible. Some cloud cover, not too hot in the day and cool over night is ideal. If it rains a touch to get that result, I wont be too fussed.
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That's a shame! :o( Thanks for your efforts so far though.
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Cheers mate. Up in the air as usual! When will you start to do your mud bath/dust bowl rating?
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Brill. Been waiting for this thread to start. Bring on the tension!
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Great work and weather not looking too bad at all.
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I hope you still do after the festival, forecasters are know, just now and then, to get it not quite right!
A few more reports coming out now that its going to be a mostly dry festival. Lets see what the next update brings.........
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William, calm down and 'think', look carefully at the charts, are they changing at times=yes=so the outlook is far from a monsoon in reality.
What do the upper charts show? They tend to suggest that hopes of a blazing hot festival are probably nearly as far removed from reality as a monsoon.
Expect some rain but not, from what I can see, a daily monsoon, some dry spells and temperatures not at the frigid level but not at baking hot values either.
Take a pill and calm down a touch lad.
This would be close to ideal. Means we can sleep in our tents in the morning without being baked and also means we don't get rained on all the time. I like you, johnholmes, I like you a lot.
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Certainly possible and while the pattern seems set, details may change as an quick example.
Tonight's GFS 18Hz run continues with the theme of heavy rain on Monday, But on Wednesday it looks much drier, and Friday has moderate rain rather than heavy rain.
This would mean much less rain overall and as such less mud, and more time for the site to dry out.
There will still be ups and downs, hopefully there will be more ups in the coming days.
Cheers man. I'm not overly concerned about underfoot conditions per se (except maybe the ones that suck your boots off), I just don't want to be rained on ALL the time. On the Friday night in 2011 I had to go to bed before the headliners because it was just persistent all day.
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The blog has now been updated.
It has to be a bit negative to reflect the models and things don't look that good around Friday especially but that is still 8 days away.
However all is not lost and there are some possibilities of things being manageable in terms of rain and mud. Fingers Crossed.
Nooooooo! What are the chances of this improving??
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I am working though the blog now, and it should be up a bit late tonight. past 9pm, although given some of the models today, it is a bit X rated.
Please don't say that!!
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I follow this thread every year and this is year is no different. It's part of the ritual. Keep up the good work!
Quick question (from a complete weather novice!) - As the trends deteriorate as we move closer to the festival, Is it pretty nailed on now (this far out), that we are going to get rain or could there be a shift back to drier weather over the next few days?
Glastonbury 2017, 21-25 June
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Exciting times!