Weather at Glade 2009?

[Inastate_]

Anybody know how to find the long range forecasts with no likely basis in reality?

Need to spice things up a bit with some predictions of torrential floods and gale force winds.

[BassBin Terrorizer]

Met check gives 2 weeks forecast for free but last year a festival could sign up to them and it would give a forecast for it for months before..

(i did check it most days at work and it predicted every possible combination of weather except snow, so i it really isn't worth taking seriously until around july 10th)

[pre-s-ton]

it cant be worse than glade 07, so wats to worry about?!

[admin]

As discussed here, Metcheck's free forecasts for Glade aren't properly set up yet - it's currently predicting what looks like a combination of Biblical floods and nuclear blast temperatures and winds.

Long-range forecasts for a climate like Britain's are inherently unreliable - even with some of today's fastest supercomputers, you shouldn't trust anything more than five days beforehand. So, like you say, don't take it seriously until 10 July at the earliest.

There are services that do charge shitloads who claim greater accuracy using sunspot cycles etc - some festivals do use them, as do big agricultural companies, but it's debatable whether the info they provide is any better than Farmer Palmer and his "red sky at night, get orf moi laaaand!" approach.

[Amber]

Met check gives 2 weeks forecast for free but last year a festival could sign up to them and it would give a forecast for it for months before..

(i did check it most days at work and it predicted every possible combination of weather except snow, so i it really isn't worth taking seriously until around july 10th)

You can still find out the early predictions for Glade on metcheck but you have to sign up for their £4 per month service.

[robertowaldhinio]

Lets hope this works out!:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8026668.stm

[PaulX]

Lets hope this works out!:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8026668.stm

Trust Old Sperge's Almanack on this one. I said before that we were due a scorcher. We had a very cold winter and they are usually followed by hot summers. This is reinforced by the record heatwave Australia had at the same time. Glade is on what is statistically the hottest, driest weekend of the year in the UK (and many record temperatures are set that weekend).

[Amber]

Yeah I literally screamed "YES!" when I heard that on the news today on Radio 2.

[baldmosher]

it cant be worse than glade 07, so wats to worry about?!

It's not at the same site. Slate wiped.

[ouzodave]

if it does rain like 07 at the bowl you will be fooked!