Remember to keep in touch with the latest updates via the Net Weather twitter account which will publish a link to all new blog posts. This is the penultimate forecast for the festival, with the final one tomorrow.
[b]Thursday 27 June[/b]
The main rain band has just been passed through Glastonbury at time of writing (5.10pm)
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Further patchy rain is expected for the next few hours, with some heavier bit mixed in. This is likely to dampen thin
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Today was dry as most models expected, with some sunny spells, more especially later in the day.
[b]Thursday 27 June[/b]
A bright start is expected although in advance of a warm front from the west it is set to turn cloudy late morning or early afternoon. The warm front
I know some of you will be off to the festival for the next day or so, so have a good one and remember to keep in touch via the Net Weather twitter account which will publish a link to all new blog posts. For obvious reasons this will be the last full forecast for Glastonbury, I will do forecasts though tomorrow, Thursday and Friday for the remaining days of the festivals, while the pattern for the festival is set, detail is still elusive.
[b]Wednesday 26 June [/b]
High Pressure has ridged o
Some of you have been very kind to send some site photos and conditions are looking good, and if the models are correct for the next 6 days, there should be no reason for this to change.
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Enough padding by me and on for with the forecast, which will again do the forecast for each day of the
There has been some rain on the Glastonbury Site over the past 24 hours, luckily the worst of the rain missed the site, with conditions underfoot remaining good.
As you more closer to the timings of any forecast, you can move from the overlying synoptic pattern to more specific weather details, and as such I will from now from break down the forecasts by day for the first time, and try to give a bit more detail, although I will keep the weekend a bit more "broad brush" for the time being.
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[b]General Theme[/b]
A little bit more rain or showery outbreaks are possible tomorrow, however as expected high Pressure will steadily edge in across the UK over the start of next week. The start of next week looks mostly dry and settle
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Thanks for all your nice comments on Twitter, I know that many of you will be going off to Glastonbury, and given the theme of this blog. The forecasts will continue right up to the start of t
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Forecast models notably GFS had forecast in the region of 25-50mm of rain for the Glastonbury area over the past few days, needless to say this has not remotely occurred, this will have big implications going forward.
[b]G
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A slight change in the forecast today, in that the pattern for this week and for the weekend is now agreed between the models, so I'll do the summary here to save late duplication.
Remaining unsettled this week, with some
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Starting off with the
[b]GFS Operational Charts[/b]
As per yesterday, I'll start by trying to find the common ground between the runs. Remaining unsettled this week, with the risk of some heavy rain on Thursday. Low Press
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Starting off with the [b]GFS Operational Charts [/b]
Trying to find a consensus between runs, this week has fairly low pressure, with the risk of Some thunderstorms form the east. For the weekend, Low Pressure is likely to e
A bit of a cheat today, I have copied this directly from my forecast on the main forum.
[b]GFS Operational Run[/b]
Both make more of the risk of Low Pressure from the east this week. especially the 12Hz run.The 06hz has total rainfall over the next 6 days of 6mm, while the 12Hz run has closer to 50mm, clearly that has big implications of the ground conditions.
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My guess is the the 50mm is overstating things some
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Starting off with the [b]GFS Operational Charts [/b][based on 12Hz 15th June run]
I'll bring the days forward to be consistent with the op runs of previous days.
Since the last full blog on Wednesday, it has come to my attention that this blog or extracts from it have made the national press.
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Don't know whether to take the nerd comment as a compliment, but fame at last, and a bit pressure in getting the forecast right.
Again we start off with the [b]GFS Operational Charts [/b][ba
This new format is based on the post of Monday in the main Glastonbury thread on the forum, and this reflects the movement into the long term range of the main models.
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[b]GFS Operational Charts [/b][based on 12Hz 12th June run]
Signs of High Pressure slowly re-establishing itself from Tuesday next week accord
Forecast Number 6 - Issued 7th June
[b]Pressure[/b]
There is High pressure to the SW of the UK and also towards the NE, however there is a mini trough towards the SW with pressure expected to be slightly below average. This is consistent with the trough expected in the South West approaches for the mid part of next week, so this may account fore the lowish overall pressure to the SW of the UK. This is definitely a concern, however these charts also allow for pressure to rise again towards
[b]Forecast Number 5 - Issued 31st May[/b]
This forecast will continue the theme of adding more and more information as we get closer to the time.
[b]CFS forecasts - issued Weekly on NetWeather (June and July)[/b]
[b]Pressure[/b]
June has a big +ve anomaly to the West/ South west of the UK, and this covering much of the UK and running through to Scandinavia.
July in contrast has more has a mini trough over Northern UK with pressure around or just below normal or the UK (within 1
[b]Forecast Number 4 - Issued 24th May[/b]
This forecast will continue the theme of adding more and more information as we get closer to the time.
[b]CFS forecasts - issued Weekly on NetWeather (June and July)[/b]
[b]Pressure[/b]
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June has a big +ve anomaly to the south west of the UK, and this covering much of the UK, July in contrast has more of a mixed weather pressure
Both also have -ve pressure anom
[b]Forecast Number 3 - Issued 17th May[/b]
This forecast will continue the theme of adding more and more information as we get closer to the time.
[b]CFS forecasts - issued Weekly on NetWeather (June and July)[/b]
[b]Pressure[/b]
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June shows higher pressure to the South West of the UK, with pressure over the UK close to average. July maintains the theme of higher than average pressure of top of the UK. Both a
[size=4][font=arial][b]Alps Conditions [/b][/font][/size]
There was decent fresh snow over medium to higher slopes at the start of the past week, but much milder temps has brought rain to all but the very highest slopes, making snow conditions not fantastic, despite the abundance of snow still at some higher slopes.
[url="http://www.snow-forecast.com/overviews/tips_full"]http://www.snow-forecast.com/overviews/tips_full[/url]
Looking very mild next week, so it really is a must to head for
As we move slowly towards the end of Winter 2012-13, I will continue to do blogs on the 5th, 12th and 19th of April, However they will be slightly shorter than previously and concentrate more on the specific Alps weather rather than the synoptic charts.
[b]Alps Condition[/b]
As we move into April, it is natural that we will see spring snow conditions especially over lower slope. Into the next week, and height is very much important, moderate rainfall is possible this week on lower slopes b
[b]Alps Overview[/b]
[url="http://www.snow-forecast.com/overviews/tips_full"]http://www.snow-fore...views/tips_full[/url]
Some fresh snow over the past week, have once gain improved snow conditions, as we now coming to the latter part of the season, spring snow is becoming an issue into the afternoon with slushy conditions on lower slops later in the day.
[b]Synoptic Summary[/b]
Breaking with tradition I’ll start this week with where we were at the time of the last blog, on Saturda
[size=4][font=arial][b]Alps Overview[/b]
[url="http://www.snow-forecast.com/overviews/tips_full"]http://www.snow-fore...views/tips_full[/url][/font][/size]
Another good week for the Alps with further fresh snow and low temperatures keeping the snow in good conditions.
[size=4][b]Synoptic Patterns [/b] [/size]
[size=4]Extensive Northern Blocking pattern at the moment with a Greenland High at 1056mb, with 1040mb right the way through to Norway, feeding bitter air over Eastern Scand
[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][b]Alps Overview[/b]
[url="http://www.snow-forecast.com/overviews/tips_full"]http://www.snow-fore...views/tips_full[/url][/font][/size]
[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]After recent milder temperatures and spring snow conditions there has been a fall in temps over recent days, and with it some fresh snowfalls which have again created great snow conditions.
For much of the week, pressure over the Alps will be low, but with little variat
[b]Alps Recent Weather[/b]
[url="http://www.snow-forecast.com/overviews/tips_full"]http://www.snow-fore...views/tips_full[/url] It has turned milder over the Alps, and his mean spring snow conditions, better in the morning, slushy snow into the afternoon especially on lower slopes, one bit of good news is that snow depths remain good for the time of year, due to heavy snowfalls earlier in the season.
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