William of Walworth
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I want to thank JACKONE too ... despite at times wanting to kill him!
Nikwaxing my boots, which thankfully are excellent, and I'm taking not only my Goretex cycling waterproofs (jacket and trousers) but also an extra waterproof poncho.
I'll be the one hidden inside various small hippy marquees up in the Green Fields, or in the main Acoustic Tent, for most of the day ...
If you feel downcast at YET MORE rain at any stage, just drink more cider. You know it makes sense ...
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william learn to read the charts and read them yourself
if anyone offers you hope and you don't get sunshine you're gonna be livid. you can see what hope there is - the weather system could pass over more quickly or further north or several other options but they don't look very likely do they
so you, and we and everyone else can just watch and hope. noone can turn up and offer you anything other than the next run of the models
I can read the charts, I wouldn't be on sites like this otherwise. They're all looking bad now as projected into next week. I guess I just meant : has anyone more professional than me got any hopes that things might yet shift, at this late stage, into a slightly better situation for the SW. Doesn't look much like it on nearly all current evidence. Although to be fair, some predictions are saying things might dry out and warm up a tad, on or by Saturday 23rd (by which time the mud'll be nice and deep! Lovely!)
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24 to 48 hours left for us to be saved!!!
We're doooomed!!!!!
i agree next week is looking horribleThe more up to date Unisyus charts I saw this morning look TOTALLY FOUL!!!
Offer us hope, anyone???
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Apologies for casting nasturtiums on Netweather ... there's a direct link to the Glasto written forecast, automated forecast, and to JACKONE's blog direct from the bottom of the home page. Oooops!
Worst, most irrational reason EVER to think the weather will be better than predicted : t the fact that the weather was better than predicted in previous weekends! Precedent is a poor guide ...
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The Azores High Cavalry arrives just too late!!
If (as JACKONE'S blog suggests**) it rains for much of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then the site will be pretty muddy by Saturday ... it would have to get quite hot for this to dry up on Sat and Sun, and I don't see many signs of that ... we have to pin out hopes on the rain being lighter/more intermittant in the Glastonbury region that elsewhere ...
**And indeed as the updated official Netweather forecast for the Festival also gloomily predicts ... can't link to it,. it's rather well hidden on this site!
Boots and Goretex, folks!!
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Definitely wishful thinking, unless there are massive and totally unpredicted changes very soon, very quickly!
Those Unisys synoptic charts for next week offer little hope of it.
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Just a reminder that my blog will continue daily until the festival, and there will also be regular forecast updates also issued by Net Weather.
Cheers ... I think and hope!!!! :unsure:
Is it you who updates the Main Netweather Glastonbury forecast as well??
It's still showing the forecast made on Sat. 9th June ... not wanting to complain like .... I appreciate that an update just now would most likely make predictions worse ....
God I'm getting seriously depressed about prospects for next week at the moment.
Worse weather : starts just near when I stop work on Friday (it's very pleasant down here in London at the moment)
Better weather : Likely to resume just around when I return to work on 27th June.
How bloody unlucky is that???
Offer me some faint crumbs of comfort folks!!!!
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I have horrible fear that West Is Best is being too optimistic. Not seen any updates though
Edit : Just seen that JACKONE has updated his Blog, after 11 pm last night
http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?showtopic=38634
Just about the worst seen so far ... AAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
<depressed>
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Cheers, West. You have no idea (or quite a lot of idea) how much I yearn for you to be right .... all today's updated info has been dreadful ...
Oh yes, I know it didn't dry up til Sunday last tme, but by Sunday lunchtime, the site ws good
You coming this time?
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Paddydog : Like you, and many others, I've been waiting for two bloody years for this festival to come round again. From the end of Friday, I start by far my longest annual holiday, and I really couldn't bear yet another rainy, horrible, never-sunny mudbath of 1997 or 1998 proportions
At least the rain in 2005, Biblical though it was, was over in 5 or 6 hours, and conditions were hot enough for the aftermath to dry up quite quickly. Most up to date prospects (this morning) indicate FAR worse than that, even if the rainfall totals are less.
<depressed>
Only way to cope will be this ...
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that's good, better then a consensus saying a wet one don't you think?
Could fall either way though ...
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It' s all quiet ... too quiet!
Desparately contradictory 'forecasts' for next week, all over the shop at the moment ...
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I am not taking any notice of a forecast this early! I have just returned from Wychwood festival and rain was forecast in every forecast for most of the wekend up until the day before then it all changed and it was all blue skies. Despite ig noring all forecasts I cannot help but throw mine in and I see the festival fairing well for weather, I think people are underestimating the high building from the south west which should bring warmish and dry weather for the whole period.
I really hope so, but I'm holding my breath for more encouraging forecasts/updates -- maybe I shouldn't be.
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Sounds good, but for that last sentence!!! Which sounds terrible ...
Continued improvement-trend, please ... I guess more reliable predictions will start to emerge next week. Ulp!
Glastonbury Festival 2007
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Just nikwaxed my boots -- AGAIN.
According to contacts already on site and in the Town, there's been very modest/intermittant rain in Glastonbury yesterday and none last night.
My main ambition is to be able to put my tent up around 4 pm tody (at the Town campsite) and up high above Lost Vagueness tomorrow morning, in the DRY.
I expect little else than rain otherwise ...
I may be some time, said Captain Oates .... have a good time all and come to the Fest well protected. Nikwax and Goretex are your friends. As are the interiors of beer tents and music marquees ...