New Research Reveals The Big Chill is UK's Hottest Festival
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Written by Nia Evans
Despite the sizzling temperatures experienced at Glastonbury this year, Brits looking for some serious hot action at a festival in 2010 should consider heading to The Big Chill. New research revealed that the Big Chill Festival can be, quite literally, the UK's hottest festival.
The research, carried out by ticket exchange site viagogo, analysed Met Office data from the last five years to reveal which festivals could be summer scorchers, and which could be damp squibs.
The study has shown that the Big Chill has regularly 'melted' with an average temperature of 23 degrees over the last five years. In fact, the temperature peaked in 2006 with Big Chill goers sizzling in a whopping 28 degrees. Bestival has also enjoyed temperatures more akin to the expected British summer, averaging a respectable 19 degrees each year.
Those staying in the capital to attend festivals like Wireless and Lovebox may well be in for a sunny time; both London-based events have experienced the next best temperature; a tan topping average of 22 degrees.
Bestival fans are advised to include wellies in their fancy dress wardrobes. The late summer festival has been showered with 37 mm of rain during the last five years, the most out of those festivals surveyed. Revellers at T in the Park and should also be prepared for some singing in the rain too; the festival has seen the clouds delivering a total of 31mm of rain since 2005.
If all this talk of sunglasses and cider (or muddy moshpits) has injected the festival bug, don't think you've missed the boat; a festival is never sold out. Tickets for all major UK and international festivals, rainy or sunny, are still available to buy safely, securely and legally with Stereoboard.com. And for those faint hearted festival-goers not wanting to take a risk on UK rain spoiling their experience, our ticket partner viagogo provides a platform for fans to sell their festival tickets to other fans looking to snap up one of these unbeatable live experiences.
Edward Parkinson, UK Country Director, viagogo told us: "While viagogo can't guarantee the weather, we can guarantee fans access to tickets to all the best summer festivals, even if they're sold out at the box office. By investigating the weather patterns at festivals over the last five years we're able to help festival goers get prepared. But regardless of these predications, standard festival kit (including sunglasses and sunscreen, wellies and waterproofs) are vital. And of course, the most important piece of kit any fan will need is a ticket!"
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