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Tank Girl said:
for 6am :D :D

metcheck seems to be one of the more optimistic forecasts doesn't it?
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6am... I'm sure I'll be awake :D

I thought metcheck were one of the most pessemistic tbh - tis all a lot of speculation still though.
At the end of the day it's June in the UK. Of course it will probably rain! :D Anyone with any experience of British festivals should know this. But saying that 'a bit of rain' doesn't necessarily mean a repeat of the scenes of the last few years :)

*mr steev: eternal optimist - there's nowt you can do so worrying is pointless
 
B0B2oo9 said:
metcheck is the same as the weather now, if its sunny they say it will be at glasto, if it's raining then they say it will rain.
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If you look on metcheck for the weather in glastonbury for today, the three day forecast is
16:00
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19:00
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yet if you click the '7 day' link you get

Afternoon
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Evening
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and that is just predicting a few hours ahead. :)
 
My weather forecasting for Glastonbury involves turning up and occasionally looking at the sky while I'm there
 
seeing is believing

or in this case, being soaked to the skin is believing

never believe what they are trying to tell you, it could be a trap.
 
Do you think me crossing my fingers that it won't rain is a sure method or shall I doe toes as well?

What I like about going to festivals on these boards is that people post 'right we're off' and the next person and the next...I get goose pimples when I'm going too and I imagine it like people are parachuting into the festival with a mission of having a really good time...I know what i mean..:)

Anyway Im still not going (time/money) and after seeing the photos earlier my guttometer is sky high.
 
Top stuff, cheers man! I'm still busy with work and the everyday world, always seems hard to imagine what it will actually be like until after 12 hours or so on site, when my perspective on the world suddenly changes. Always turn up thinking i look like too much of a scruffy hippy, then spend my time there thinking i look like too much of a clean city boy.

Meh, looks like i've got nearly everything i need ready already, so bring it on. This time next week i'll have been there for a day!
 
Magic hat is when there is no set price, you just put your donation in the hat and magically there is enough money at the end of the day to run the place.

quite boring really
 
Fair enough, I like the idea... Still sounds worth a visit, it's the little places like this that make glasto for me.. The one man disco, the periscope house, the Aus guy that inflated a surgical glove on his head with his nostrils while bouncing on a pogo stick, then later covered his face in elastic bands.

One year I went on an old but trippy fairground ride, kind of like a darkened hamster wheel with a bench on the axle. You got in and they spun the wheel around you. It was a weird feeling, all done up in UV lights/paint. I know they say 'simple things, simple minds' and all that but they're the bits of the festial that stick with me. They're the bits that make me smile for weeks afterwards..

I'm going to try and make and effort to at least see a few bands and dj's this year. It'd be a huge waste not to. I still reckon 70% of my time will be spent away from the stages...
 
Im trying not to get excited as my ticket hasnt arrived yet but I cant help it...
after reading your post Jontz Im a teeny bit shivery.... I cant wait to go.

I couldnt go when my kids were small,(teen mum, watched friends all go many times before me) Ive always wanted to...

I dont know if I can really let myself get properly excited... just in case it doesnt come true:oops:
 
Forecast-watching!

Latest update, posted on netweather.tv tonight, from the more-reliable-than-Metcheck JACKONE is not too negative at all .... for now!

Fill yer boots with technical synoptics

Early talk now, today, is of a modestly improving trend next week, with High Pressure possibly much nearer than in the truly dreadful. Low-dominated versions this forecast that JACKONE was posting over the weekend. We currently have a fairly shaky/tentative 3, on Saturday we had a 1! :eek:

Your forecast can go down as well as up but over the next two days the battle between High Pressure (nice!) and Low Pressure (not!) may resolve itself ....

No real signs of any scorching heatwave imminent, but a 20C, reasonably sunny, and most importantly predominantly dry Glasto will probably make most people happy, especially the heat averse!

All still in flux though ... MOAR LATER! :D
 
William of Walworth said:
Latest update, posted on netweather.tv tonight, from the more-reliable-than-Metcheck JACKONE is not too negative at all .... for now!

Fill yer boots with technical synoptics

Early talk now, today, is of a modestly improving trend next week, with High Pressure possibly much nearer than in the truly dreadful. Low-dominated versions this forecast that JACKONE was posting over the weekend. We currently have a fairly shaky/tentative 3, on Saturday we had a 1! :eek:

Your forecast can go down as well as up but over the next two days the battle between High Pressure (nice!) and Low Pressure (not!) may resolve itself ....

No real signs of any scorching heatwave imminent, but a 20C, reasonably sunny, and most importantly predominantly dry Glasto will probably make most people happy, especially the heat averse!

All still in flux though ... MOAR LATER! :D
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:)

(I like the way he does it as a nice simple score. My brain can work with that. :) )
 
5 impossibly good, 1 miserably bad. It's a 'wetness or not?' scale mainly.

After the weekend's truly awful forecasts from that source, I'll take a neutral 3 over a dismal 1 anytime ...
 
So given the fact that these forecasts are still swinging wildly can somebody please explain to me again why the fuck is anybody bothering to read them any more than a couple of days before we leave for Pilton? :hmm:

As always I predict that the weather will be UNPREDICTABLE! :D
 
same reason I'm making plans for which bands to see even though I have no idea what times I'll be working :D
 
Sunray said:
Put that into perspective, he had it down as a 2 last year, so a 1 and I'm buying chest high waders.
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I thought you had intended on not going if there was a chance of it being like last year??? Or have I got you confused with another poster? :)
 
moonsi til said:
I thought you had intended on not going if there was a chance of it being like last year??? Or have I got you confused with another poster? :)
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No, I did say that, but instead of wasting the cash by buying a ticket and not going, I'm stewarding for Oxfam. This does mean I have to go, but my expense is just 21 quid for the train. If its twatting it down, I don't feel like I have to wring out 165 quids worth of entertainment trudging across a soggy site.

Be a new experience anyway.
 
I rang in work today at 10:15 saying I'd got too much stuff to sort out and will be booking the day off, in reality I'm already packed and ready. I'm just gonna spend the day getting excited and buying last minute bits instead. CMON SATURDAY!
 
Sunray said:
No, I did say that, but instead of wasting the cash by buying a ticket and not going, I'm stewarding for Oxfam. This does mean I have to go, but my expense is just 21 quid for the train. If its twatting it down, I don't feel like I have to wring out 165 quids worth of entertainment trudging across a soggy site.

Be a new experience anyway.
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Good plan..:) I'm going to consider applying to Oxfam next year...partly to keep festival costs down and for the experience.
 
my tent is full of mould... :rolleyes: kim and aggie say i need to put it up in the garden, spray it with a solution of bleach and water, and then hose it down with a garden hose. i don't have a garden, or therefore a garden hose. kim and aggie are a pair of fucking numbnutses, and very classist to assume that EVERYONE has a garden and a hose to go with. :mad::mad::mad:

sorry, am i babbling? i'm not myself today. i'm going to glastonbury and the sun might shine- i feel like one of the kids in the disneyland europe advert. I'M TOO EXCIIIITED!
 
Tort said:
So given the fact that these forecasts are still swinging wildly can somebody please explain to me again why the fuck is anybody bothering to read them any more than a couple of days before we leave for Pilton? :hmm:

As always I predict that the weather will be UNPREDICTABLE! :D
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*Bares weatherarse at Tort*
 
After every festival we curse having to wash the tent out in the bath. At the start of every festival we rejoice heartily that we did.

Seriously, unless it's massive, give it a soak in the bath, with bleach if you want, though lots of vinegar would probably work too (works on tiles). Then give it a good mash around in there, let the water out, and give it a big rinse.

Hang it up to dry straight away and then check it for mould holes and the like. Should work i reckon, it's what we do with no garden.

Of course, you may not have a bath either.
 
:rolls eyes at bees: no shit, sherlock.... ;)


can i just sling the tent over the shower curtain rail to dry? can i get in the bath with the tent and trample it as if i was treading grapes? should i cut my toenails before i do that? am i getting overexcited again? i am aren't i? oh lord. i'm not going anywhere for a WEEK. i pity anyone who has to deal with me until then. :)
 
breasticles said:
can i just sling the tent over the shower curtain rail to dry? can i get in the bath with the tent and trample it as if i was treading grapes? should i cut my toenails before i do that? am i getting overexcited again? i am aren't i? oh lord. i'm not going anywhere for a WEEK. i pity anyone who has to deal with me until then. :)
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That's what we do, yeah why not could be fun, probably no need for that; seemingly so yes and woohoo!
 
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