Glastonbury festival: singing and dancing in the rain

From show‐stopping storms to mud baths and more, the fields of Glastonbury Festival have borne the brunt of some of the finest and some of the feistiest British summer weather. This article dives into the more extreme weather events in the festival's history, illustrating the increasing unpredictability and volatility in our changing climate. With the most extreme years of festival weather all occuring within this century, our gradual trend towards a warmer and drier climate poses immense uncertainty for the future of British festivals, and how festival organisers are preparing for this changing environment.