Glastonbury 2024

Lightweight waterproof hiking boots are the way to go. Wellies a disaster unless you are used to wearing them. If it gets muddy, it's deep sticky stuff so wellies will come off if you haven't the correct socks on. It won't be wet anyway. Pack a poncho for larger showers (again, probably not needed) and that should be grand!

Anyone who doesnt bring really good waterproof footwear to Glasters is a fool. That is all.

Current forecast looks appalling.

The forecast is almost perfect.

Dry, cool and mixture of sun and clouds.

Small chance of scattered showers.

Dont pay attention to the forecasts until Sunday at the earliest. Research some fun/music instead.

A sudden downpour can f8ck the site so putting high value on forecasts make no sense until Monday or Tuesday of next week. There have been years when we knew it was going to be great (2010) and other years we knew it was going to be abysmal (2016) by this stage. Next week is still subject to huge change sadly. It could be wonderful, or awful. lol

Source? That would be great news.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0618/1455288-aer-lingus/

"Aer Lingus Regional flights from Dublin will not be impacted by any potential industrial action, as these services are operated by an external provider."

Got an email from AL earlier on it too - flight going ahead as planned

Also (and I know I shouldn't do this) but The Weather Thread on efestivals is f*cking grim reading lads. :/

I was looking at dates for next year and if it's the weekend I think it will be then it would be the first year I could possibly go. What is the % chance roughly of getting a ticket. 10%? Less?

You guys have very short memories and I thought ye’d know better by now. At this point in 2022 all weather forecasts were dire and it was a scorcher that year. Forget about forecasts until Sunday.

The weather thread over on efests is a roller coaster. Think it's actually making me feel a little stressed. Yet I can't stop looking.

Temperature chat is now the latest. Couldn't give a balls about the temperature really I'll be wearing shorts all day every day anyway and have a jumper in the bag. But would really, really prefer it wasn't a mud bath. ATN last year was tough with the muck.

Edit: and that's probably mild compared to what Glasto can get.

Yeah for definite. ATN was grand compared to a muddy one at Glastonbury - I've only ever experienced 2016 in terms of mud grinds but there are veterans here that have been through worse.

97: After vintage sunny years in 94 and 95 this muddy sh1tfest caught the fest by surprise and is now firmly in the pantheon. Global images of people swimming in mud. The last time I didnt bring wellies to Glastonbury. Woke up on the Friday morning to upturned portaloos floating in lakes of muddy water. We left early.
1/10.

04: Wellies for a part of the weekend but still tolerable/enjoyable. It rained a good bit and was chilly but would happily take this again next week. Take your hand off actually.
7/10.

05: The Thursday night thunderstorm has to be the worst in the 20+ years i've been going. Levelled the site. Incredibly the sun came out for Brian Wilson on the Sunday but it was too little too late.
3/10.

07: Amongst the worst. Pissed rain for most of the weekend. Mud around the Pyramid when The Who were on was 18 inches deep. Survived rather than enjoyed.
2/10.

08: Im hopeful this is the analogy for next weekend. Was dull, grey, damp, cold but not too muddy. You could manage the weekend in hiking shoes.
6/10.

09: Rained Thursday night and then again 20 mins after Blur finished. In between was for me just perfect. Warm, balmy, runners throughout.
9/10.

10: Scorchio. Flawless weather for the weekend. If anything too hot at times. My only experience of a rainfree weekend.
10/10.

11: GRIM. Coldest weekend of my 15 visits and the one i really hope is not replicated this weekend. Friday in particular was abysmal and yet the Sunday was unplayably hot.
2/10.

13: Couple drizzles at times but broadly super weekend. Chance this could be an analogous weekend again shortly. Weather for The Stones was perfect.
8/10.

14: Bog standard muddy weekend at Worthy Farm. 2 inches of brown soup everywhere. Crap.
3/10.

15: Sunshine and showers. Sunshyte. Pissed rain couple times. Another real drag of a year. Hardly the worst tho.
5/10.

16: Appalling. Ground pre-festival utterly waterlogged. Journey over was beset with challenges. Organisers encouraged people to delay arrival. Left early. Still scarred by getting in and getting out. UTTER chaos. The worst year for me. Thankfully the chances of anything even close to this next weekend are now nil.
0/10.

17: Wednesday one of the hottest days ive experienced in the UK. It got cooler as the weekend went by. In many ways this saved my relationship with the festival given the previous year.
9/10.

19: We spent the weekend worrying about pending thunderstorms which never materialised. Incredibly lucky and a marvellous weekend. I got sunburned to f&ck on the Wednesday, really dummy move. Hottest Saturday afternoon I can remember at Worthy Farm.
9/10.

22: Pretty much perfect. Runners all weekend and a slight coldish chill in the evenings. Bliss really.
9/10.