In Video and Pictures: UK: Wild Weather leaves Revelers Swamped in a sea of mud: Traffic jams and soggy tents as downpours hit Isle of Wight New Age festival

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In Video and Pictures: UK: Wild Weather leaves Revelers Swamped in a sea of mud: Traffic jams and soggy tents as downpours hit Isle of Wight New Age festival

• Organiser promises to give refunds for unused tickets as queues leave 600 stranded on ferries across the Solent
• Lifeboat had to rescue people who decided to sail across storm-lashed Solent to reach the Isle of Wight New Age Festival
• Heavy rain to batter Britain as month's worth of rain predicted to fall in just 24 hours
  
• North West alone has 28 flood alerts in place with severe weather warnings for Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire
• England's one-day cricket international against West Indies rained off
  

PUBLISHED: 07:54 GMT, 22 June 2012 | UPDATED: 16:03 GMT, 24 June 2012

They may have expected to go without showers for three days – but they probably didn’t realise they would have to take a mud bath instead.

Revellers at the Isle of Wight New Age festival found themselves soaked and stranded as torrential rain turned the site into a quagmire.

But the ones who had made it to the chaotic campsite were considered lucky by others who were left sleeping in their cars as traffic jams brought the island to a standstill.

View Video and Pictures and Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163073/Isle-Wight-festival-2012-Music-fans-arrive-mudbath-UK-faces-months-rain-24-hours.html#ixzz1ykFdllF4