bongobil1 wrote:yea when we got back to my girlfriends house and checked the local weather it became apparent that it was just a tactic to start the massive job of getting the site clear early.

just to clear this up, I was the person who wrote and distributed the posters at the request of the festival organisers, and I can 100% guarantee you that this was not a scare tactic.

As of around midday sunday there was a severe weather warning in place on the metcheck website for this postcode, with a heavy storm predicted for 3pm Monday (from memory 7-8mm of rain between 3pm-6pm), plus rain showers starting from 6pm sunday. By the time the posters went out on Sunday this had changed to 6pm monday with 12mm of rain predicted between 6-9pm in addition to a steady drizzle all day monday.

Given the fact that the ground was utterly sodden, and much of the region was stil under water this amount of rain would almost certainly have reflooded the site, meant even tractors would have been having trouble towing anyone out, flooded the local roads whcih would have prevented anyone getting on or off site, flooded the motorway and a roads again so that anyone leaving site on monday afternoon would have got stuck somewhere else, potentially closed the railways etc etc we thought we ought to warn people about this and try to get as many people safely offsite before the predicted rain hit as possible.

The one little white lie we told was in asking people to leave be midday monday rather than 3pm when the rain was predicted to hit, but this was because we knew it would take people a while to get their cars out of the carparks, plus the weather was so changable it could easily have been the case that the storm hit earlier than predicted.

By some miracle the predicted storm never happened, but we aren't eather forecasters, so we can only go on the information supplied by the met office, and they did definately have a severe weather warning for this area for monday afternoon which I was checking myself as I wrote the notices.

hope this helps to clear this up

gav

Furry muff!!
all i was saying is when we got home people were saying that they had seen nothing about adverse weather on the news.

But if your met checks said it looked ruff then good on ya for giving people the option cant really fault the orgainisation on that one.

More than anything im pissed with myself as it didn't rain and i could have stayed longer least i got a fry up and some nookie for heading off early

bongobil1 wrote:Furry muff!!
all i was saying is when we got home people were saying that they had seen nothing about adverse weather on the news.

But if your met checks said it looked ruff then good on ya for giving people the option cant really fault the orgainisation on that one.

More than anything im pissed with myself as it didn't rain and i could have stayed longer least i got a fry up and some nookie for heading off early

no worries, I just picked your post from several to reply to, thought I'd nip this particular conspiracy theory in the bud like

you'd not believe how glad we were when the storm didn't turn up