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heebusjeebus

MJohnston wrote: »

Not liking how the weather forecast is going at the minute, the charts are showing a huge 20mm downpour over Saturday night into Sunday morning. Friday looks great and Saturday itself is okay up until about 6pm when the rain starts, kicking off big time at around midnight. Sunday should clear up a little bit, but lots of showers.

That's a fairly fecking miserable amount of rain forecast, hopefully it can shift just a little bit better in our favour, maybe the rain moves a bit later to like 4am or something when most people are asleep, and a wee bit further south so that it's a bit lighter too.

Who you using for that forecast?
YR.NO is looking decent again:

https://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Leinster/Stradbally/long.html

billybonkers

MJohnston wrote: »

Not liking how the weather forecast is going at the minute, the charts are showing a huge 20mm downpour over Saturday night into Sunday morning. Friday looks great and Saturday itself is okay up until about 6pm when the rain starts, kicking off big time at around midnight. Sunday should clear up a little bit, but lots of showers.

That's a fairly fecking miserable amount of rain forecast, hopefully it can shift just a little bit better in our favour, maybe the rain moves a bit later to like 4am or something when most people are asleep, and a wee bit further south so that it's a bit lighter too.

Can I ask where you are getting your forecasts?

Poorside

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Who you using for that forecast?
YR.NO is looking decent again:

https://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Leinster/Stradbally/long.html

I like this one, I'll take that please.

MJohnston

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Who you using for that forecast?
YR.NO is looking decent again:

https://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Leinster/Stradbally/long.html

I'm looking directly at the simulation charts here http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=nwdc;sess= (pick UK Precipitation from the drop down and then cycle through till about +129)

gandalfio

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Fully agree. Why not These Charming Men if Pete Tong & Jenny Greene/RTE Orchestra are doing their own tribute acts. Would love to see TCM, all depends on clashes.

And the Bootleg Beatles have played Glasto twice since 2013, the first time in the Acoustic tent directly clashing with the Stones. They'd go down a storm at EP.

Was half expecting something given the Sgt Peppers 50th anniversary this year

Lzmunky

Charles OCK wrote: »

The job is only beginning my friend

I should rephrase. Responsibilities done.

Poorside

gandalfio wrote: »

Was half expecting something given the Sgt Peppers 50th anniversary this year

maybe the gospel choir will do it,with a special appearance by macca.

gandalfio

Poorside wrote: »

maybe the gospel choir will do it,with a special appearance by macca.

:-)
Louisiana 6 are a skiffle group. Probably the closest we'll get

scruff monkey

MJohnston wrote: »

I'm looking directly at the simulation charts here http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=nwdc;sess= (pick UK Precipitation from the drop down and then cycle through till about +129)

How accurate are they? Surely it's going to be wednesday or thursday before we've a properly accurate forecase?

johnnyskeleton

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

People have asked to list various genres
Rap - m/c /// Trad /// Jazz /// Techno etc

How about listing the cover bands.
There are so many new sounds to take in, that sometimes it's nice to be greeted with the familiar!

Roadhouse Doors (the doors)
These Charming Men (the smiths)
Harvest (neil young)
Le Freak (chic, sister sledge, diana ross etc)
RobotRock (bit of a stretch as they remix daft punk, basement jaxx, chems etc)
Salty Dog no stars are doing exile on main street as their album this year (rolling stones).

Any others to add to the list?

Clandestinos on the B&S stage on the Sunday are, I think, a Manu Chau/Manu Negra coverband with bits of madness and other stuff thrown in too. Think they play their own stuff as well so not sure if they are a coverband as such.

ghostdancer

scruff monkey wrote: »

How accurate are they? Surely it's going to be wednesday or thursday before we've a properly accurate forecase?

the weather sites with cartoon graphics and vague predictions all take their info from those type of charts, so it's as accurate as it's going to get at the moment.
it's still 6 days away, things can change a lot by then, and the precipitation/rain is harder to predict than most other things

the HGT 500-1000 chart is showing plenty of high pressure around over the weekend, so if that pushes up a bit, we could end up with a lovely dry warm weekend.

davew121

is the wristband exchange open on Thursday in the campervan setion? Cant remember from last year....

MJohnston

scruff monkey wrote: »

How accurate are they? Surely it's going to be wednesday or thursday before we've a properly accurate forecase?

Well, the GFS model is one of the major weather models, but it's not quite as good accuracy wise as the ECM model, but the GFS is free and the ECM is licensed, so I'm using it! I think there's a lot of low confidence in forecasts currently due to some disturbances.

To give you an idea of why we can't get accurate forecasts until closer to the date, go here and pick 'Height 500hpa + SLP', which will show you the interactions of all the different pressure systems. Click animate and watch fluid mechanics in action! Really difficult to get right with accuracy when there's so many systems interacting.

Anyway, what will bring us the forecasted rain is two low pressure areas that currently don't even show up in the model until about 24 hours from now, then they bulk up, move across the Atlantic, interact with each other, and with the high pressure that'll be over us by Thursday/Friday, and then they send out some troughs that'll create the rain...basically, there are a huge amount of variables in there, and if any one of them is off even slightly, we might escape with no rain at all, or get even more rain!

By Wednesday, the different models will hopefully start to converge on the truth.

johnnyskeleton

MJohnston wrote: »

I'm looking directly at the simulation charts here http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=nwdc;sess= (pick UK Precipitation from the drop down and then cycle through till about +129)

That shows there being at most 2mm at most, not 20mm, in the Laois/Kildare area on the Saturday at 6pm:

http://max.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20170828/00/138/ukprec.png

MJohnston

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

That shows there being at most 2mm at most, not 20mm, in the Laois/Kildare area on the Saturday at 6pm:

http://max.nwstatic.co.uk/gfsimages/gfs.20170828/00/138/ukprec.png

I didn't say the 20mm would happen all at 6pm, I'm talking about 20mm between then and Sunday morning.

eddiegisto

MJohnston wrote: »

I didn't say the 20mm would happen all at 6pm, I'm talking about 20mm between then and Sunday morning.

So bring the wellies

johnnyskeleton

MJohnston wrote: »

I didn't say the 20mm would happen all at 6pm, I'm talking about 20mm between then and Sunday morning.

Oki doke. I can live with that if it's light rain over 10 hours on one of the three days!

MJohnston

Here's a site using the GFS model showing precipitation accumulation figures

_feedback_

I love how everyone becomes a weather expert on EP week!

(and procrastination experts) :cool:

eddiegisto

_feedback_ wrote: »

I love how everyone becomes a weather expert on EP week!

(and procrastination experts) :cool:

Yes absolutely no work being done in work oops

Former Former

The Met Service have a really good 5-day forecast. http://met.ie/forecasts/5day-ireland.asp

As of now, it only goes up to 12pm Saturday, but there's a big bastard of a weather system moving in from the west.

If this doesn't change, it's going to dump a lot of rain Saturday evening/night.

billybonkers

I remember a boards user made a lightweight app that had all of the stag times last year, it would send a notification a little bit before your selections were playing to your phone.

Anyone remember this? It was much much better than the official app

maximoose

billybonkers wrote: »

I remember a boards user made a lightweight app that had all of the stag times last year, it would send a notification a little bit before your selections were playing to your phone.

Anyone remember this? It was much much better than the official app

It's on the way

kg703

eddiegisto wrote: »

So bring the wellies

You would want to be feeling fairly brave to leave your wellies at home in any case!

irishfan9

not liking the sound of things now..

heebusjeebus

Former Former wrote: »

The Met Service have a really good 5-day forecast. http://met.ie/forecasts/5day-ireland.asp

As of now, it only goes up to 12pm Saturday, but there's a big bastard of a weather system moving in from the west.

If this doesn't change, it's going to dump a lot of rain Saturday evening/night.

Windy.com has that weather system tracked too but it looks to dissipate as it goes over the country. Fingers crossed:

https://www.windy.com/?rain,2017-09-03-12,51.413,-11.162,5

Peesh89

I'm refusing to believe anything but YR.. If we all just totes visualise amazing weather and send posi vibes in to the air and sing our yoga prayers to the weather gods and not accept any negative weather thoughts, the sun will come in abundance.

eddiegisto

kg703 wrote: »

You would want to be feeling fairly brave to leave your wellies at home in any case!

Touché

eddiegisto

Peesh89 wrote: »

I'm refusing to believe anything but YR.. If we all just totes visualise amazing weather and send posi vibes in to the air and sing our yoga prayers to the weather gods and not accept any negative weather thoughts, the sun will come in abundance.

Agreed ðŸ˜

team_actimel

eddiegisto wrote: »

So bring the wellies

Boots > Wellies