Glastonbury Festival is kicking off the Friday with big names like Dua Lipa, who is set to become the first headliner of 2024 amid rumours that Coldplay might be playing a secret set
The crowds at Glastonbury will be pleased to know that the first day of this year’s festival at Worthy Farm is unlikely to be a washout, with weather forecasters predicting some rain clouds and, if festivalgoers are lucky, even a nice long spell of summer sunshine. Thousands began descending on the festival site, Wednesday, for one of the biggest music festivals in the world.
Many of these music fans came ready for five days of music and mayhem, come rain or shine. Which is lucky, as the first day of headliners at Glastonbury Festival is set to be drizzled on by rainy showers before being baked in afternoon sunshine.
Met Office forecasts for today predict that campers will be stepping out of their tents to some good old Blighty drizzle and thick cloud. But, it does also promise that before first headliner Dua Lipa takes the stage, the rain and clouds should part over Worthy Farm.
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Despite scorching temperatures to start the week, many travelling to Glastonbury saw the weather take a turn for the cooler and wetter, with dark grey clouds capping the festival site.
But today’s forecast promises something different for the hundreds of thousands of people dancing the day away to some of the world’s biggest and best musicians.
From 6am, there will be light drizzle and cloud, but with some sunshine breaking through. By 7am this will coalesce into a light rain shower as temperatures climb to 14C at Worthy Farm.
This rain will start to lessen by 8am and the sun is likely to break through the clouds. These conditions will continue until around 10am, when it will begin to feel warmer as the cloud dissipate and the rain stops entirely.
Festivalgoers will then see stints of sunshine and cloud up to midday, when the dark grey clouds will return, according to the Met Office forecast. But, the sunshine will once again break through and by 4pm, the sunshine will be beat down on the festival for the rest of the day.
Daytime temperatures are set to peak at 18C by 2pm, falling to 11C overnight into Saturday.
The Met Office forecast for Somerset reads: “Today will see a mixture of sunny spells, patchy cloud, and the odd light shower in the morning. In the afternoon, any showers will clear, and most patches of cloud too, leaving plenty of sunshine.
“After plenty of late sunshine this evening, tonight will continue with clear skies to start. Later on, areas of cloud will drift in from the west for some.”
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