How is the weather (specifically humidity) and the heat at shambs

Pack for the following weather:

• hot, dry, and sunny as fuck
• 5C at 100%humidity - the morning dew is COLD
• 15 degree difference between in the crowd and walking to camp - it’s a stark difference
• burning man levels of dust - you own a fuckload of masks now, shambhlung is entirely preventable
• 2” of mud everywhere people walk - gum boots are good but logging boots are better
• a shitload of rain - you want to be waterproof and wearing wool, I promise
• a whacky wind storm. Tie your shit to the ground, I’ve seen tents fly away.
• being weirdly hot at night ;)

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• and everything in between

Humidity is at a very desirable level. Expect highs of 30s during the day and lows of 5 during the night

It’s a valley so flash storms are common where it rains for 15-30min and then is sunny again. Some years it’s rained for days. Thunder and lightning has happened many years in the past as well.

As someone who grew up in Montreal and therefore knows what summer humidity is like I can say you'll be fine, it's much more like a dry heat.

It gets hot as fuck during the day but I don’t remember it feeling particularly humid?

It's always a bit of a gamble. Humidity isn't too bad like other people said, but it can be anywhere from very very hot during the day, to cloudy, cool and raining. Last event, it rained hard from Saturday thru Monday.

Heat maintenance during the day is normally pretty important. If you're heat sensitive, you'll need some shade at your camp site, and maybe even a spray bottle / mister of some sort to keep you cool. If you aren't camped in the shade, your tent will get very hot in the morning as well.

It'll get cold at night no matter what.

Hiii! I used to venture from Niagara on the lake to shambhala every year for 5 years before I finally moved to bc.

It seems like you’ve gotten your answer about the humidity (minimal but still hot), keep in mind the temp drops as soon as the sun dips below the mountains. Layers at night as between stages gets cold but in the thick of the party gets real hot.

Can’t wait to party with you my fellow southern ontarien!!

So as someone who lives in the koots and also lived in Southern Ontario:

We get super hot, and are extremely dry (next to no humidity) when there isn’t rain. Usually it will be around 30C. This leads to it being super dusty, especially on the roads and pathways where vehicles and high foot traffic occur.

However when BC does get rain, it comes out of nowhere and comes in quick and hard, rarely will it last more than a day but it might. This is the only time you will get any humidity but it’s nothing close to S. Ont. It also does a great job of cooling everything down and by the time it gets warm again the humidity is usually down too. Expect a rainy day to cool down to around 15C.

For the nights, it gets very cold relatively. It won’t get to freezing, but the temperature swing because of lack of humidity is pretty large. Fortunately crowds are large so you won’t have to worry at the stages. And as someone pointed out, lots of dew on the grass and leaves in the morning makes things pretty wet.

It's been unseasonably cool and wet so far thuis spring/summer so all bets are off. Heck, two days ago I was out working in weather that you'd expect in May - not July.

Typically though, July isn't as hot as August so it won't be AS hot this year than in the past with the new dates - more high 20s to low 30s instead of mid to high 30s and more humid (but nothing like Ontario humidity.

On the other hand, storm activity (especially in the late afternoon is much more active in July, so I'd expect a higher chance of afternoon thunderstorms than in years past.

I've been through the year of fire and the year of mud...be prepared for absolutely anything. Pack for rain, cold, damp, wet, hot, dusty...and random.