After a day of rain at Glastonbury… time for some heat: Thousands of revellers at five-day music festival set to enjoy dry weather – as Met Office says temperatures could rise to 28C
- It will also be a warm night with clear skies – perfect for watching performances
Thousands of Glastonbury revellers are set to enjoy the hot summer sun as the Met Office says temperatures could rise to 28C today.
Yesterday festival-goers were drenched by rain as they set up camp on the first day, ready to watch Elton John, Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses headline in the five-day music spectacular.
But luckily conditions are forecast to be drier today – with the heat rising and temperatures warmer than yesterday.
It will also be a warm night, with clear skies and just light winds – the perfect conditions for those out watching the evening sets under the stars.
The heat comes after some said they had experienced a ‘whole week’ of weather during the festival’s first day, as hot sunshine rapidly interchanged with torrential storms.
Forecasters are predicting that temperatures will rise to 28C in parts of the country today
Festival goers watch the sun set on the first day at Glastonbury Festival
Many sat on the grass as parts of the first day were warm and dry in Somerset
A fireworks display above the stage on the first evening of the five day music festival
The Met Office forecast for Glastonbury on Friday shows the day will start will an early mist.
Low cloud will clear quickly, leaving another dry day with plenty of sunshine, although turning hazier later.
It will also feel warm and humid tomorrow with temperatures in the area reaching 24C.
The weather into the weekend, from Saturday to Monday, looks warm and humid with hazy sunshine on Saturday.
By Sunday there could be some showers in the west, but these will dry up by Monday as conditions also become a bit breezy and fresh.
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Yesterday revellers remained cheery as they got drenched while setting up their tents and enjoying the first day of festivities at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
Edyta Krzesak, a music photographer from Minehead, Somerset, was wearing a t-shirt, trousers, bucket hat and sunglasses when she was left ‘soaking wet’ by a heavy downpour at 11.30am. ‘
‘I would say it’s been the whole week in one day,’ the 45-year-old said. ‘It’s been a fresh morning, kind of breezy – it was cold when I woke up – then it was extremely hot when I had my breakfast, then it kind of cooled down.
‘Now look at me, I don’t have even my waterproof coat, I left them at my tent thinking I will not need them and I’m soaking wet.’
Ms Krzesak, who is at her eighth Glastonbury in a row, said the weather ‘could always be worse’ as she recalled ‘horrendous’ mud at Worthy Farm in previous years.
A festival goer plays a swing ball game during the first day of the Glastonbury festival
One reveller is wearing inflatable wings among the crowd
Conditions looking bright as crowds of people sit on the grass at the festival
People walk past tents to set up camp on a wet opening day of the Glastonbury festival in Somerset
Sheltering from the rain, a festivalgoer eats beneath an advertising food board at Glastonbury
Nora Uotila, from Finland, Simon Siegmund and Victoria Pazos in their tent on the first day of the Glastonbury Festival
The Met Office said that the odds of a hotter than average summer in the UK for the next two months had now more than doubled.
June has already been a scorching 2 degrees warmer than the average over the last three decades.
Now, forecasters say for the remainder of the summer, the UK has a 45 per cent chance of being hotter than the average between 1991-2020.
Will Lang who leads the Met Office’s National Weather Warning Service told a news conference that we might be in for record breaking temperatures over the next two months.
He said: ‘Extremes such as 40 degrees are by definition unlikely, but not impossible.
‘Given we have an increased probability of hot weather overall for the summer, it does increase the risk of extreme high temperatures,’ he added.
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