According to weather.com, it looks like it's going to be another disappointingly dry Glastonbury this year. (Disappointing from the perspective of those of us watching it at home - where's the fun if the audience aren't crotch deep in mud?)
From Tuesday through to Saturday, the prediction is for a mixture of sun and cloud, with some showers on Sunday. Temperatures will be a slightly fresh 14 Celsius on Saturday.
This is the scene from Glastonbury now - or at 10.17 this evening, anyway - as captured by the BBC webcam. They've made a widget so you can poke it wherever you like, too.
The BBC are predicting that it's going to rain heavily tomorrow; Weather.co.uk suggest rain tonight, tomorrow and on Saturday. But Gigwise found someone prepared to buck the gloomy predictions:
Michael Eavis sold a pair of wellies this evening for one hundred pounds as he told festival goers there is no need for them, we have sunshine all weekend.
His daughter, talking to the NME, was slightly less positive about the prospects, but still upbeat:
[Emily] added that the site is looking good, and based on her knowledge of the air – Eavis grew up on the farm – while she is not expecting a totally dry weekend she's confident conditions will be much better than in previous years.
"It's beautiful down here today, It's boiling hot," Eavis explained. "I'm expecting a bit of a shower at some point over the weekend but we think it will be pretty fine all weekend from knowing what it's like here."
Q's Queen's Head was rammed full this evening as Glastonbury's musical treats kicked off. As the first main stage to swing into operation at this year's event, there was a huge crowd baying for tunes with the tent packed to capacity and more than a thousand more people at the fringes trying to catch the early acts.
Glasvegas and Santogold (pictured) were among those to benefit from the huge interest in the Queen's Head and the "up for it" crowd happily tolerated the latter's slightly late appearance after getting stuck in traffic on the way to the Somerset site.
Here's a simple rule of thumb: if you're going to use a creaking with-it phrase like up for it, daddio, don't draw attention to it by putting it in quotes.
Back to Michael Eavis, finally: the first video from this year's events to hit YouTube is this, shot at the official opening:
"There were about 3,000 left this morning," Mr Eavis told the BBC News website on Tuesday.
"But they are going out slowly. We did about 800 yesterday so we'll just about scrape home without losing my shirt."
Well, yes - his shirt is safe:
Mr Eavis said the charities that receive money from the festival - Water Aid, Oxfam and Greenpeace - were likely to lose out as a result of any unsold tickets and the rising cost of staging the event.
Even Glastonbury is feeling the pinch of the rising oil prices - those wind turbines don't take up all the slack, you know.
The latest weather forecast: cloudy for Friday and Sunday, light rain for Saturday.
Good news, bad news: the Sunday is now being predicted to be dry - partly cloudy. Saturday is down to be foggy - so pack your, um, foglights. Friday, on the other hand, is showing light rain. It might not be cracking the flags, but Glastonbury might be about to swerve the mud.
Weather.co.uk have updated their weather forecast for Glastonbury - as the festival weekend gets clearer, of course, it becomes easier to predict the likely weather with a bit more certainty.
Yesterday, they were predicting dry weather for the fest itself, except for Sunday.
Now, the forecast is rain for Friday, light rain for Saturday and scattered showers for the Sunday. The days aren't going to get above 19 degrees, but on the bright side, the nights won't be dropping much below 11.
The 10 Day forecast for Glastonbury weekend is posted: it's going to hammer down this weekend; then dry for most of next week - with fog on Wednesday - and rain for the last day.
Having said that, the forecast has been getting more grim as the weekend has got closer.
Of course, one of the additional risks in holding back the distribution of Glastonbury tickets until the last minute is that, while you might thwart touts that way, you don't leave much time to sort out things if they go wrong.
Glastonbury has said they will "do their best" to allow those who have had tickets disappear en route to get in, but although the Mirror is probably being over-dramatic suggesting "thousands" have had their tickets stolen, the opening up of the possiblity of letting people in despite them not having their tickets has added an extra layer of confusion to this year's event.
Meanwhile, the weather forecast for the weekend is now: Tomorrow: Day - rain, 16 degrees Night - Light rain, 12 degrees Friday: Day - Rain/ thunder, 17 degrees Night - Thunderstorms, 12 degrees Saturday: Day - Showers, 18 degrees Night - Showers later, 10 degrees Sunday - Showers, 17 degrees
The forecast for the festival, according to Weather.com:
Thursday evening - heavy rain, 16 degrees Thursday night - rain, 14 degrees Friday daytime - rain/thunder, 17 degrees Friday night - thunderstorms, 11 degrees Saturday - showers, 17 degrees Sunday - partly cloudy, showers in the evening, 16 degrees
So, take your pacamac if you're going, prepare your schadenfreude if you're not. Mind you, the organisers have spent £750,000 on new drainage to pledge a festival without mud this year. The weather seems determined to test that.
We're not sure that we'd set very great store by weather forecasts claiming to predict what the weather will be doing the weekend after this one, but early predictions are that it's going to tip down on Glastonbury this year.
Having said that, the forecast might have been based on little more than someone spotting it's Glastonbury weekend and it usually pisses down on the site, so chances are it will rain, but if you are going: pack for trench foot.
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This is the scene from Glastonbury now - or at 10.17 this evening, anyway - as captured by the 
