It would be interesting to compare the stats on medical casualties for dry years and wet ones. In my experience (every Glasto since '94), last year was absolutely the worst for the number of people needing medical assistance in Dance. Lots of twisted knees, sprained ankles, heatstroke, sunburn, dehydration, etc in addition to the usual 'partied too hard and passed out' kind of casualties that we usually get.
I've done a few muddy ones but the most frightening was a few years ago when there was a dreadful thunderstorm that lasted several hours on the Friday morning. We were listening to the Production Channel on the radio and there were horror stories coming in from all over the site of flooding, lightning strikes, damage to electricity generation plant, etc. Several stages were declared unsafe and no-one was allowed in fields with tall metal structures, which is just about everywhere with all those flagpoles. We were asked to prepare to support the conversion of East Dance to an emergency shelter and medical facility as all the existing places were overrun. There was talk from senior Festival people of having to abandon the Festival. And then the thunderstorm ended, the sun came out and the first act started about an hour later.
At home (about 14 miles away), they had had a cloudy morning with the odd shower. So treat all weather forecasts with suspicion, pack wellies AND suncream because Glasto weather can be a law unto itself.
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