Coachella festivalgoers are thankful for better weather

Weekend one of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival came to an end Sunday night.

With a weekend full of pool parties, nonstop shows and lots of sun, festivalgoers couldn’t have gotten luckier when it comes to the weather.

But that wasn’t the case at last year’s festival.

“Way out in the distance you could see this big wall of brown stuff coming towards you and all of a sudden everything just went kind of brown, yellow, black and it was just a mess,” festivalgoer Chris Gamel said.

“We left our car windows down so I had dust inside of all of our cars, caked on all of our stuff,” camper Collin Hord said.

Weekend one’s sand storm was so terrible many were calling it “Coughchella”.

“Coughchella sucked,” Hord said.

“My nose was pretty stuffy and I had a cough for about three weeks after,” festivalgoer Julia Bailey said.

Festivalgoers remember doing anything they could to survive the sand.

“Wrap sweatshirts around our head and try to just survive. It was pretty bad,” Bailey said.

“Just wrapping scarves around, just anything that we had we were trying to use to stay warm and then not get dusty,” festivalgoer Katie Tyson said.

Last year bandanas were worn as a means of survival, but this year they’re more of a fashion statement.

“I was gonna get one of those masks for all the dust because I was coughing pretty much dirt from day two and three but I just use it to keep my hair back now,” Hord said.

This year music lovers lucked out with nearly perfect weather the whole weekend.

“This year’s weather is amazing. It’s not even that hot, not really burning, maybe getting a good base for the summer,” Gamel said.

“But this year is perfect. The weather couldn’t be better, so we’re pretty excited to escape the New York City cold,” festivalgoer Jillian Rieger said.

Even so, many came prepared just in case there’s a Coughchella 2 .

“Yeah we always bring face masks. This is my fourth year so we already know the tricks with all the face masks and everything,” festivalgoer Jairo Vargas said.

But with the last day almost in the books, it looks like no one needs their face masks after all.