Glastonbury 2008
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colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Ok - as of today I am officially *excited* about Glastonbury. Especially if the weather holds out like today 
The line-up looks ace - I just hope I get to see more of it this year. Outside of the Leftfield last year I only saw the Broken Family Band (who were
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On the wellies v walking boots argument I will be taking both. Reason being walking boots are much better for running around in/operating vehicles etc. but if the mud gets up to biblically high levels I find I can shlepp about in wellies much better
The line-up looks ace - I just hope I get to see more of it this year. Outside of the Leftfield last year I only saw the Broken Family Band (who were
)On the wellies v walking boots argument I will be taking both. Reason being walking boots are much better for running around in/operating vehicles etc. but if the mud gets up to biblically high levels I find I can shlepp about in wellies much better
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
I've bitten the bullet and decided to grab a ticket since there are still some going and in previous years Ive been worried the kids are too young for glasto ( with me on my own anyway!)
Its the last time I can get all the kids in for nowt and having seen the full line up theres enough to be excited about...
But im going on my own with the kids ( possibly 3..)and call me a wussy but Im a bit scared...
since there are still some going and in previous years Ive been worried the kids are too young for glasto ( with me on my own anyway!)Its the last time I can get all the kids in for nowt and having seen the full line up theres enough to be excited about...
But im going on my own with the kids ( possibly 3..)and call me a wussy but Im a bit scared...
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
I thought people knew that anyway???
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
My horses' winter field is still poached but sculpted into rock hard potholes because of no rain here for nearly 2 months
My horse has learned to swim..... more than half her field is still underwater.
I thought people knew that anyway???
We do, you've just re-affirmed it in peoples minds
My sister has been taking her 4 to the Bulldog Bash since they were babies, seems to work for her. I know Glasto's bigger but your kids are older......... they'll love it, and so will you. And on the plus side, when you get them home, they'll be so tired they'll sleep for a week. It's all good!
moose
like some cat from Japan
bloody hell how far will this field be away from the festie then
We've been on the other side of the road before, many years ago. It was approx 30 mins uphill walk from the pedestrian gate
The last couple of years have been the closest we've ever been.
I'm keeping a close eye, and at THIS stage, disaster for the last week of June looks unlikely. We're expecting a marked downturn in temperatures later this week, but mostly in the East, without too much of a downturn at all for conditions in the South West. After this coming weekend, it's all up for grabs ... knife-edge city!
(but with, I think, a slight bias towards better, at least in the SW).No detail yet, nothing known for sure. Your forecast can go down as well as up. A detailed update to JACKONE's forecast for Glastonbury specificially, is expected on Thursday (12th) on the Netweather forums. He's good, he was entirely spot on with last years disastrous forecasts. Bitten nails!
going out this week I think
MsShirlLaverne
wearing purple
I got an email from Glasto yesterday telling me that I can still buy a ticket and use my credit card to pay for it. I haven't changed my mind though but this beautiful weather makes me think I may regret not going
breasticles
the smell of life
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breasticles
the smell of life
well, im afraid you're wrong: i am going so it won't. FACT!
i might have read this here, so forgive me if i'm repeating what you already know, michael eavis says the oak trees are out before the ash and that's a good sign that it'll be dry, folklorically. (if such a word exists).
eta: i'm still investing in a heavy duty waterproof, though.
I wish such folklore was reliable! There were a lot of ladybirds in Spring too, apparantly another folkloreish sign of a good summer, or at least a warm one (neither the tree thing nor the ladybird thing tells you anything about rainfall levels for a particular week though!
)Trouble is, summer lasts til September ...
eta: i'm still investing in a heavy duty waterproof, though.
Always sensible, however good the forecast ....
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It will switch at least ten more times between now and the fest. It really is the least reliable 'forecast' at this stage for the reasons paolo999 said earlier on. It will become reliable, but not (at a guess) til late next week.
Wait for JACKONE's proper forecast due late on Thursday ....
breasticles
the smell of life
yeah, i think that one's definitely less reliable since the advent of the dreaded harlequins, the evil grey squirrel of the ladybird world, which seems to hang around all year, just generally being annoying and shit and possibly mucking about with folklore weather predictions to boot.
stupid harlequins!eta: i'm really ahppier ignoring metcheck's existence from now on, to be honest. it's just masochism at this stage.
story
Changing the facts
Oh good grief.
Metcheck were at one point, last Tuesday, forecasting 19 mm of rain for Cambridge Friday night (the night before Strawberry Fair) and about 8 mm more for Fair day itself. They downgraded that (as they often do) to a more bearable figure very very close to the event, with the dreaded dark blue (for very heavy rain) disappearing, but they were still forecasting enough to make it a pain. Yet in the event, on Friday night and Saturday, there was no rain at all in Cambridge (just)...
Close run thing to be fair, because there was heavy rain Friday (Herts) and Friday and Saturday (Suffolk), neither very far away. But I just throw that in ... they're not always wrong, especially not much closer to an event when their accuracy level increases quite significantly usually, but at this stage I go
at their 9 mm and 4 mm predictions. We just don't know yet.JACKONE will be much more reliable.
thelittlechef
Ale Drinker
8,000,000,000,000.0285 to 4DP. IIRC, I could be a little bit wrong though.
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
I'm on the Herts / Essex / London border and the rain on that Friday night was horrendous indeed.
The rest of the weekend was a distinct improvement on that!
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
There was a programme about last summer's storms on TV last night, apparently the jet stream didn't go as far north as it usually does and for that reason and a couple of others the storms of June & July (particularly June) were said to be a 1 in 150 year occurrence.
So unless we get the next 150 years' occurrence this year, it won't be as bad............. (she said, with fingers & toes crossed.....)
story
Changing the facts
Yes, but look! Look at it!
I mean really, look at this and see it!
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/event_forecast.asp?eventID=559
(notwithstandingwilliamofwalworthsdenialsandqualificationsandthesureandcertainknowledgethatweareowedyesowedadryone)
I mean really, look at this and see it!
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/event_forecast.asp?eventID=559
(notwithstandingwilliamofwalworthsdenialsandqualificationsandthesureandcertainknowledgethatweareowedyesowedadryone)
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
I know. I've looked, and seen. Regularly.
I choose to ignore anything I don't like the look of, and I don't like the look of that, therefore I choose to ignore it.
I like the look of the bright sunny forecasts, so I choose to pay attention to, and remember, those.
<------------ how exciting! Sunglasses! 
