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Glastonbury to be a mud bath, so say the ‘weather experts’
18th June 2007 - 15:04Weather experts are predicting a mud bath at this weeks Glastonbury Festival, which takes place at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
Forecasters warn that persistent rain throughout this week will guarantee mud for the second time running. In 2005, a months rain fell in less than 2 hours and more than 300 tents were washed away.
Festival organisers have spent more than £750,000 on new barriers to prevent anything like that happening again.
Speaking to The Times, Stephen Davenport, senior meteorologist for MeteoGroup UK, said the amount of surface water set to build up this week means mud baths are inevitable.
He said: “With the amount of rain that is about to fall in Somerset, it will be a mudfest.
“With heavy showers around today, and maybe thunderstorms, there will be more rain soon moving in tomorrow, heavy in the afternoon with thunderstorms again possible.
“We could be looking at a total of 60mm to 80mm (2.4in to 3.1in) of rain between now and the weekend - that’s quite a deluge, so mudbath ahoy. Local flooding is likely.”
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14 Responses to “Glastonbury to be a mud bath, so say the ‘weather experts’”
Dunno what everyone’s making a fuss about, I’m sat at worthy farm in my speedo’s drinking a Mojito listening to club tropicana writing this on my laptop… It’s 35 degrees and the removal of my trunks means it’s gonna get much hotter…
I’m in Bridgwater at the moment, so not too far from Glasto and it hasn’t rained yet today. Keeping my fingers crossed for Wednesday.
bollocks
i live 5 mins from the site and its sunny sunny here… has been for hours. tiny bit of rain this morning but NO thunder!! you’re makin it up!!!
Im about 20 mins away from the site and its sun sun sun all the way here today! not a drop of rain in sight…anyway, whens a bit of mud ever hurt anyone?!
I live in Glastonbury town. It has been a surprisingly fine morning contrary to the forcast but feels muggy and a bit like a storm. But I notice that there’s more sun showing on the weather charts the closer we get to the weekend. My mates and I think that we should bring the Law of Attraction to bear: come on, folks, think SUN! What you are focussed on, that is what you’ll get. Besides, I heard this morning whose fault it is if it rains….
Absolutely chucking it down in North Somerset…
LOL Thank you Matt for making me spit my tea on the screen!
See you lot in a while, I have some wellies, waterproofs, baby wipes, rugs, the doormat, an inflatable sofa, and hair bungees to find.
:::: scurries ::::
Wednesday lunchtime and all down at Worthy Farm and The Levels looks green and lush. We may get a sprinkle so its going to get tacky not swampy. Stephen Davenport get back to your desk.
Live about 10 miles from the festival site.
Beautiful evening with a drying wind. I hope the rain bypasses Pilton and soaks elsewhere.
10 miles north of the site - its been raining quite a lot for quite a lot of the day.
Lovely and sunny in Street 4.30 pm - black clouds in the sky towards Glastonbury!
23rd June
Got back to my B&B in Glastonbury last night its now 2pm saturday abd its chucking it down. Was fun yesterday in the mud. Dunno if I gonna brave it today unless the suyn shines tho…Amy in the pyramid was good also Ardcade fire bit like talkin heads…have fun punters!!
The healing field was the only sane space tho!
I live in Shepton Mallet, 3 mile from the site. It’s 05:53 and still raining……