Prepare for windy weather if you’re heading to Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
A High Wind Warning is scheduled to open the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday and Saturday. You should make sure you’re prepared so the wind doesn’t steal the show and leave you with health issues, rather than a great experience.
Wind gusts will top out at about 60 MPH at times during the first two days of the festival. But, temperatures aren’t looking too bad, as we stay well below 100 degrees. View the full Coachella Forescast
News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2’s Alexandra Pierce is looking into the ways you can make sure your Coachella doesn’t turn into another ‘Coughchella’, as we reported during the 2014 festival.
Video: Dedicated fan prepares for the wind with the proper gear
Chris Watkins is getting ready for the first weekend of the festival. He shared his game plan with us Thursday afternoon.
“With winds going in excess of 25 miles per hour, we’re going to need some serious eye protection, and you don’t want the debris getting into your nostrils, so you have a handkerchief there as well, so [I’m] totally prepared,” Watkins said.
While some think a simple bandanna will be enough, others are taking a heavy-duty approach. Many festival attendees bought full-on lab goggles to ensure no sand gets in their eyes.
This isn’t Jacob Weiss’s first rodeo. He said he’s got ‘surviving Coachella’ down to a science.
“[I’ve] got these goggles right here, I got one of theses masks you put over your mouth if you’re going to be painting a room, so the fumes don’t get to you,” Weiss said.
Some say the more wild and crazy it gets, the better. Saying it’s Coachella, and it’s in the desert for a reason.
Whether the weekend winds turn into a repeat of the 2014 festival however, remains to be seen.
