The Weather Prognostication Thread

[Mark_Wilkin]

Weather, the certainty is we shall definitely have some of it over the weekend. But what weather shall it be? Place your bets now!

[Mark_Wilkin]

Here’s the 7 day forecast from the Met Office:

Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit weather - Met Office

And Pufferfish’s excellent post from the last weather thread is here:

All purpose weather panic thread

So I wrote a thing about how to read a weather forecast for the purposes of camping in a field, because I am a weather forecasting nerd: Any forecast that uses a single symbol to describe a day’s weather will be using the most pessimistic symbol available, because let’s face it, if it’s going to be sunny all day apart from one hour of torrential rain, you don’t want to use the sunshine symbol. This is also a good demonstration of why majority opinion rarely tells the whole story! :stuck_out_to…

[Jim]

A BIBLICAL RAIN OF FROGS

[CharlieP]

Well that would at least be a new option.

[Geoffrey_Willoughby]

I am hoping that it rains for the next 2 weeks. Indeed for the next 2 months. Make that the next 10 months. Then we will get out of this drought.

Of course, I could be dissappointed. But every time I predict good weather, it rains…

[Mark_Wilkin]

Oooh interesting, light rain and light showers from Wednesday to Friday, possibly, perhaps, who can say?

Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit weather - Met Office

[AnthonyHJ]

As someone who lives not far from the site, the torrential downpour I have watched out of my window all day makes me a tiny bit nervous. Even if it stops, I can see a lot of muddy puddles in our future…

[Mark_Wilkin]

It’ll be ok, with that drainage ditch that got put in last year it has excellent drainage. Nil Desperandum and all that .