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Up to 30 on Sunday?! Yikes!

Probably needs updating. This was posted 28 minutes ago - A spokesperson for the Met Office said Wednesday and Thursday (June 23) will see a mixture of sunshine and showers When the event gets under way officially on Friday (June 24), fans can expect sunny spells, “though it will be turning cloudy with some light rain through the eveningâ€. But in a revision of previous forecasts, Saturday will be “warm and humid†with the odd heavy shower while Sunday will see the “best of the weekend weatherâ€. “It will be a warm and sunny day with temperatures up to 23 degrees,†the spokesperson said.

BBC weather currently predicting for Glastonbury - Occasional showers on Thursday will give way to drier and brighter weather on Friday, before further wet and windy weather spreads in from the west on Saturday.

Thanks for the update. Oh dear.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...really? was that the same one who saw the Pyramid stage get sucked into a pit of quicksand?

Thanks JACKONE. A King amongst Men. I salute you!

But Sky news says it's going to be "Muddy Hell"? Oh I don't know who to believe. *sarcasm off*

Your link doesn't work I'm afraid! Could you post it again?

Looking pretty good? Let's just hope that the moderate rain on Saturday doesn't rear it's head. TWO 16 day forecast is giving heavy rain on the Saturday!!

Yep. Good call!

Thanks. You're doing a great job! Appreciate it.

Is that 6 just based on Sundays wet weather? I'm not fussed if it's muddy on the last day.

Hmmmm......Netweather's own forecast is now saying cloudy with outbreaks of rain for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Wonder what JACK will come up with today??!!

Also in the NME article, so take heart - "Rain is likely to fall on Glastonbury next weekend, but forecasters are saying that festival-goers should not expect a washout."

Well, it's looking increasingly likely that it's not going to absolutely chuck it down, and I'm more than happy with that.

Just out of interest JACKONE, do you go to Glastonbury? Or have you ever been? If not this is a wonderfully selfless and generous thing you're doing.

VERY true. I also think that the forecasts for next week could be a lot worse too. Don't let it ruin the run-up to your festival WoW! Are you going to be able to report from the site when you're there? That would be handy.

JACKONE, would you say that your forecasts, apart from this one giving the rain on Thurs rather than Weds, pretty much match up with this? - http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoforecasts/forregdaily.aspx?postcode=Glastonbury&selected=0

Yeah Gimoman, I was woken up by that thunderstorm - massive is not an understatement. I have NEVER seen rain like that in my life. I heard the next day that they were just about to officially abandon the festival - then the rain stopped and the sun came out. My tent was flooded, but I dried everything out in about 2 hours in the sun. Also, I don't remember it even being that bad by the Saturday either. That was a freak weather occurrence, and at the most inopportune time to say the least!

Well this year will be my 14th Festival, so I guess I'm a bit of a veteran. It's a tough one to answer, because lots have things have been improved over the years - drainage, concreting the roads etc. But I don't think moderate rain leading up to the festival will be a major factor in causing a mudbath. I think with it being so dry up to now, the rain will just run off the fields and into the drainage system. It doesn't take much to dry the site out at all. The soil is mainly clay, so water tends to rest on it rather than soak into it. This only becomes a problem if there have been weeks and weeks of rainfall, or there is the factor of hundreds and thousands of people putting pressure on the water, pushing it into the ground and then churning it up as thick, sticky mud. Add to this further rainfall, and you get the lakes of mud some of us are unfortunate enough to be familiar with. That's my opinion chucked in, others may differ?

Yeah, I think we can all write the temperatures off, but that doesn't bother me at all. I just don't want to see any significant amounts of the wet stuff. I've been through about 5 or 6 wet Glastonburys and it does become a struggle after a few days. Showers with sunny spells would be fine by me actually. The good thing is though, up until yesterday it's been very dry in the South West. The REALLY bad mudbath conditions of 1997 were mainly due to the fact that it had been very wet leading up to the festival. The ground was just waiting to be churned up, and then rain during the festival then just turned that churned up mud into vast lakes of liquid mud. And also if it does rain as said above, the drainage is much improved. My predictions are the same as JACKONE'S at the moment - it will be a damp festival, but by no means a washout or mudbath. Although I could well be eating my words in 2 weeks time. Or even sooner if the forecasts stabilise over the next few days.

Uh-oh........from the BBC monthly forecast. Monday 20 June 2011 to Sunday 26 June 2011 Wimbledon starts: new weather, please? There's little sign of a spell of warm, sunny weather to take the nation through one of the premier, sporting events of the summer. Low pressure will again lie close by to the British Isles, with the wettest and windiest spells of weather to be found across the north and west. Temperatures will not warrant postcards home, falling below par in southern England, south Wales, southwest Scotland and Northern Ireland. Sunshine amounts will suffer as unseasonable, wetter spells take precedence across southwest Britain and the Midlands. I so hope this is wrong.

Reasons to be cautiously optimistic? I'll take that for today thank you. It's just nice to see some hope of avoiding a washout emerging.

My housemate, who is a lady, just put the heating on. But it really is chilly in here.

Forecast showing no rainfall over the festival period here - http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoforecasts/forregdaily.aspx?postcode=Glastonbury&selected=0 but I don't know how reliable or respected this site's forecasts are. I can't see us getting no rain judging by the current weather conditions. I think we'd be very very lucky if this forecast were true.