This year's Glastonbury Festival has all the makings of becoming the stuff of legend. Sunday's line-up is topped by Stevie Wonder who draws what has to be the biggest crowd ever assembled in front of the Pyramid to see his singalong set of hits and feel good numbers to "celebrate" Glastonbury's 40th Anniversary.
Wonder had the masses in rapture when he brought event founder Michael Eavis on to the stage saying, "I want to thank this wonderful man who's had this for 40 years. Yes, 40 years. It
Today followed last night's Gorillaz example with a host of special guests. Muse stole the show with an encore guest performance from U2's Edge, and before them Scisssor Sisters had an appearance from Kylie.
Biffy Clyro were special guests in a packed Park although we couldn't find anywhere near enough to see it, while Shakira and The Dead Weather played to those roasting in the sun at the main stage we chose to chill at the Bimble Inn and bumped into friends. George Clinton and Midlake head
It's a scorcher! The main stages sparked into life in the sunshine and Rolf Harris started the party.
Many of the campsites began to fill up and the day's entertainment was topped off with Gorillaz and a host of guests including Snoop Dogg, Bobby Womack, and Lou Reed amongst others. Unfortunately Mos Def had to cancel his appearance at West Holts and Femi Kuti was moved back to headline the flag filled stage.
Earlier Snoop Dogg had drawn the biggest crowd of the day, and The Stranglers pl
Conditions were near perfect in front of the main Pyramid stage for the eFestivals World Cup football match which raised over £8000 for WaterAid. With the crowds entertained by Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs and an Endorse It In Dorset supergroup before watching a closely fought game where England took the honours winning 6-4. The game was even watched by WaterAid presidentPrince Charles from the stage. Unfortunately post match entertainers Supernova had to cut their set short as the Festival
For many we discover the first experience of Glastonbury was being stuck in long queues in the hot sun for hours at the pedestrian gate entrances with no water some even miss the game.
Even at the campervan fields we took an hour to get in, traffic around the perimeter holding us up.
Once in we had to come to terms with limited mobility because of K's ankle, and plans to explore greenfields had to be shelved.
We watched the England football team's victory on screens in the newly named
Parked up, awning up sat out on a warm night in Glastonbury suburbia listening to the sounds of folk getting settled enjoying a beer and a smoke and watching the sky lanterns float off into the night - bliss.
Tue: Sun
Wed: Sun
Thr: Sun
Fri: Sun AM/Clouds PM
Sat: Sun (best DAY!)
Sun: Sun
Mon: Sun
http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Glastonbury-UKXX1641
http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Glastonbury/forecasts/latest
It's only about 7 or so hours until we set off for our twentieth year of Glastonbury. My wife yesterday badly twisted her ankle and despite much grinning and bearing (and a few tears) she is determined to go and won't consider any other option.
We are taking our campervan and so will be arriving on site tonight Tuesday. I'll be letting you know how we fare and what wonders we witness on this blog.
This was suggested by someone, so here is a simple quick current feelings on the weather, too be updated daily:
Tue: Sun
Wed: Sun
Thr: Light Rain
Fri: Rain Showers
Sat: Rain Showers
Sun: Light Rain
Mon: Sun
Enjoy, will be updated same time tomorrow.
Boo hiss, the current feelings are not currently good...
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MetCheck current feelings(note image will update automatically daily - so keep checking back):
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NetWeather auto forecast for glasto is now here:
LINK>>> - http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=events;sess=
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LINK>>> - met office - check out the UK wide long range view - looking good! But this is yet to be updated.
SO the forecasts are firming up now - still looking good, but currently a chance of rain - check it out.
Still plenty of time for this all to change for the better!
All the reports are looking GOOD!
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MetCheck current feelings(note image will update automatically daily - so keep checking back):
Or: Direct link to the above image
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NetWeather auto forecast for glasto is now here:
LINK>>> - http://www.netweather.tv/index.
All the reports are looking GOOD!
NOTE: all links open in a new window
MetCheck current feelings(note image will update automatically daily - so keep checking back):
Or: Direct link to the above image
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NetWeather auto forecast for glasto is now here:
LINK>>> - http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=events;sess=
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LINK>>> - met office - check out the UK wide long range view - looking good!
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UK Outlook for Sunday 20 Jun 2010
Some of the long range sites are coming online now:
NetWeather
Not looking like the washout some have predicted, but equally not yet perfect.
Still plenty of time
Download is going to be awesome, however BOTH my little brothers are going this year, they are of ages 17 and 15, so i shall do my best to not worry about their general safety (by this i mean from self inflicted harms) and make a plea to everyone to respect each other at the festival. And can all the really tall people stand behind me. Seriously. I'm five foot tall. I come up to your belly button. You don't need to stand in front of me to see the stage :0
Good for assessing current weather conditions!
http://www.checkitlive.com/camera/glastonb...tor-camera.html
Big count down to the 9th and 10th now, for the first semi reliable forecasts...
So JACKONE has posted their latest reading of the forecasts, and it doesn't look great.
http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/62778-gla...orecast-blog-2/
(you can read part one of their glasto weather blog HERE )
It seems the prediction of great weather by met check is based on just one of the chart readings, and that reading disagrees with the rest of the weeks reading, so I wouldn't go and break the bank buying a new cool box just yet...
I'll just quote a small amount of what JACKONE po
It's a while off before most of the decent forecasts will swing into play (few sites don't go much above 10 days, or most stick to 5 or less)
But here are the main ones I check for their opinion - before checking the long range charts:
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MetCheck current feelings(note image will update automatically daily - so keep checking back):
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The metcheck and netweather are peoples personal estimations of the weather, fr
So the BBC webcam has been running for a good while now, always interesting to see what is going on on the farm, and to see their weather predictions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/webcam/webcam3.shtml#webcam (sadly this site won't let me embed the widget - but see below for the latest images)
these images will auto update every 10 minutes, so check back soon to see what is happening on the farm
Pyramid Stage with the Other Stage and Park behind:
Green Fields and Dance area
If you look at: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_...st_weather.html and then click on the 16 to 30 day forecast you are told:
UK Outlook for Friday 18 Jun 2010 to Friday 2 Jul 2010:
The somewhat unsettled theme with sunshine and showers is likely to continue at first. However, there are indications that there may be a trend towards higher pressure giving drier, brighter and warmer conditions with some sunnier parts perhaps very warm. Southern and western parts may see more in the
I'll try to update this at least daily to keep you up to date with the latest outlook for glastonbury festival 2010!
At the moment the weather is looking mixed and uncertain - not suprising really since weather forecasting is more art that science at this far away from the event.
Here are the currect metcheck feelings:
MetCheck current feelings(note image will update automatically daily - so keep checking back):
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The metcheck are peoples persona
