Coachella 2026: Violent winds disrupt festival, campgrounds

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Strong winds disrupted the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday night and the forecast calls for more gusts throughout the weekend.Windy conditions are not unusual to the festival, which attracts roughly 125,000 attendees to the Empire Polo Club each of its weekends, but it’s rare to see the weather cause performances to be canceled.

On Friday night, EDM artist Anyma canceled his much-anticipated performance set for just before midnight on the festival’s biggest stage due to the weather.Music Sabrina Carpenter headlined and P-pop group Bini made history at Coachella 2026’s opening day.

Meanwhile high winds forced Anyma to cancel.See photos of the XX, Katseye, Turnstile and more.“Due to strong wind conditions affecting Anyma’s stage build, he is unable to perform.

Coachella & Anyma have made this decision together with your safety as the priority,” the fest wrote in a message on its app just after midnight on Saturday morning.On Friday night, there were social media reports that showed that the Do Lab — a stage on the southern side of the festival grounds, which includes shade structures with colorful bolts of fabric — was closed for the night with yellow caution tape around the area and that a speaker may have fallen to the ground.Music Get ready for Justin Bieber’s headlining set, Jack White, Nine Inch Noize, the Strokes and more.

See photos and follow along for live updates from the desert on Day 2.Festival promoter Goldenvoice and the organizers of the Do Lab stage did not provide comment at the time of publication.The wind wreaked havoc in the campsite as well, blowing tents and canopies over.

“It was definitely pretty impactful last night.The wind reports in the area saw gusts up to 35 to 40 mph yesterday during late afternoon,” said Isaac Longley, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.

“Unfortunately, that was when there were a l...