If you were lucky enough to get tickets then you want to know if it’s going to be sunny, if you didn’t then you want to know whether all the buggers down on Worthy Farm for the Glastonbury Festival are going to get drenched.

It’s never an easy one to call. 2004 was a mixed bag of clear skies and sticky mud, whereas as in 2003 punters experienced an entire weekend of sunstroke and burnt noses, so time of year is no indication of what to expect.

According to the BBC metrological centre through, weather prospects for this year’s event look really good.

“Tuesday and Wednesday will be dry and quite sunny with temperatures beginning to creep up into the mid-20’s Celsius.” Explains BBC Somerset’s weatherman Richard Angwin, “It may turn a little cloudier on Thursday and there is a risk of one or two showers breaking out during the day, but it should still be warm and reasonably sunny.

As for the reports of a few showers on Friday and over the weekend, Angwin continued,

“I cannot be absolutely certain about this - it is too far ahead - but the chance of those showers does seem to be receding and it looks as though the bulk of Glastonbury 2005 will be dry, warm and fairly sunny.”

The long range forecast doesn’t include weather predictions for Saturday and Sunday yet, but Thursday should have a maximum daytime temp of 26°C with a minimum night time temp of 12°C, while Friday’s equivalent highs and lows are 20°C and 12°C.