It might be Glastonbury, but it’s still on a farm in the middle of Somerset (Picture: Getty Images/Joe Maher)
The bar is low when it comes to UK weather – for people at Glastonbury Festival, 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 on Wednesday as the nation was baked by a long-sought heat wave.
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But as this is Britain after all, the sunshine never lasts long. Temperatures are forecast to fall off a cliff for the rest of the week – just as all the bands roll up.
Now, we’re certainly not saying that Coldplay, Dua Lipa and SZA have brought the clouds and cold with them but…
According to the Met Office, the temperature from Friday to Sunday will barely push above 20°C.
Tonight will be the first day the headline acts take the stage (Picture: AFP)
Glastonbury, which is near the village of Pilton, has a chance of becoming the soggy muddy festival it usually is later this week (Picture: EPA)
The festival saw sunny and warm weather earlier this week (Picture: Tom Wren/SWNS)
The sun will only peak out from behind the clouds every now and then, the national weather service predicts.
The BBC, meanwhile, forecast rain, meaning there’s a chance Glastonbury will become the mudfest it’s infamously known as.
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 ‘very high’ for the remainder of the week.
Pollen counts are higher than normal this week (Picture: Met Office)
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.
What’s the weather in Glastonbury going to be like?
Friday, June 28
Highest temperature: 18°C
Weather forecast: Cloudy changing to sunny by early evening.
Saturday, June 29
Highest temperature: 20°C
Weather forecast: Sunny intervals changing to cloudy by late morning.
Sunday, June 30
Highest temperature: 20°C.
Weather forecast: Overcast changing to sunny intervals by late morning. (The BBC, however, says Pilton should expect rainfall from 5am to 8am.)
Where is Glastonbury Festival?
Glastonbury Festival is located on Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset 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.
How times change, huh?
In 1997, however, Glastonbury’s weather was so awful that Neil Young cancelled and other artists had to cover the ones that couldn’t make it. The Other Stage even began to sink into the mud.
When is Glastonbury 2024?
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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