When you live in Britain, the bar is low when it comes to good weather – for people at Glastonbury Festival 2024, it’s somehow even lower.
Glastonbury is known for two things. Being one of the world’s most prominent music events and mud. A lot of mud.
Yet Glasto-goers were truly blessed with blistering highs of 27°C and bright blue skies yesterday as the nation was baked by a long-sought heat wave.
While Glastonbury will unlikely become the mudfest it’s infamously known as, the mercury sadly won’t stay this high by the time the headliners are on tomorrow.
Some people even emerged from their tents this morning to light showers.
According to the Met Office, the temperature from Friday to Sunday will barely push above 20°C.
Expect a fair amount of cloud too and, according to BBC forecasters, rain.
And as this is Britain, after all, there’s more not-so-good weather news to come.
Hayfever sufferers should expect red itchy eyes this week as a ‘pollen bomb’ explodes up and down the UK.
The Met Office’s pollen forecast has the pollen count in southwest England as ‘high’ today before rising to ‘very high’ for the remainder of the week.
But all in all, no matter how cloudy it is or how many antihistamines you’ve popped, a casual reminder if you’re reading this that you are in Glastonbury. (If you’re not, though, sorry. This is awkward.)
Coldplay, Dua Lipa and SZA are among the headliners this year, with the Idles, Disclosure and The National heading up the Other Stage this week too.
Highest temperature: 18°C
Weather forecast: Sunny intervals changing to light showers by late morning.
Highest temperature: 20°C
Weather forecast: Sunny intervals changing to cloudy by late morning.
Highest temperature: 20°C.
Weather forecast: Overcast changing to sunny intervals by late morning. (The BBC, however, says Pilton should expect rainfall in the morning before.)
Glastonbury Festival is located on and is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world.
Our brief bit of trivia as you made it this far down the story: during the first Glasto in 1970, a ticket cost just £1 and about 1,500 people attended.
The gates to Glastonbury Festival 2024 opened on Wednesday and will run through to Sunday.
The majority of the live music performances take place from tomorrow until the final day.
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