During the festival, we will be constantly be monitoring the festival site and the surrounding weather conditions and have procedures in place for evacuation.
If we detect the potential of lightning strikes in the locality, we will suspend the activities within the festival site immediately. Announcements will be made in each marquee asking people to evacuate in an orderly manner. Security staff, festival staff and volunteers will aid you during the evacuation.
The safest place to be during an electrical storm is inside a motor vehicle. In the event of an evacuation please return to your vehicle, keeping windows closed and hands and feet away from metal parts of the car including the car body. Please note that convertible cars are not suitable refuge points and should not be used.
Please do not start your car engine. In order to reduce the risk of collisions between pedestrians and vehicles during an evacuation, vehicles shall not be allowed to move or leave the site.
If you are unable to take refuge in a motor vehicle we recommend that you return to your tents, the advice is to leave your shoes on, crouch down and make yourself small on an insulated surface such as a sleeping mat or backpack, without placing your hands on the ground for support. Do not touch the sides of the tents or the tent poles.
The festival site will not re-open until a minimum of 45 minutes since the last sound of thunder and our lightning detection equipment has indicated that the storm has passed more than 15 miles from the site. We will use our PA systems to communicate appropriate messages and updates.
