Heather “they come at” Knight, mostly

Andrew “Private” Hudson,
James Cameron Bancroft,
James Cameron Green,
Corporal Graeme Hicks,
Private Vasbert Drake…

Ian Bishop the robot (RF)
Gubby Alien (RF)
Ellen ‘gives the ball a good rip’-ley (OB)

Yeh, Saturday doesn’t look too great – 80% “chance of precipitation”, according to the Met Office.

That made me wonder, though, about what exactly they mean by “chance of precipitation”. So I clicked their little info icon thingy:

Chance of precipitation represents how likely it is that rain (or other types of precipitation, such as sleet, snow, hail and drizzle) will fall from the sky at a certain time.

So there you have it. 80% is the chance that the precipitation (rain, sleet, snow, hail and/or drizzle) will fall FROM THE SKY. There is only a 20% chance that the precipitation (rain, sleet, snow, hail and/or drizzle) will fall from the roof, from the ground, from overexuberance, or from sheer bloody-mindedness. So no need to take your downbrellas on Saturday.

We’re taking the position that Saturday’s forecast has already hit rock bottom and now can only improve.

Cheers APW. Here’s hoping that you get a super day’s play on Friday, for your sake and also my own. While I won’t be at the ground that day (lucky you), it is a day when I should be able to follow much of the action from home.

Saturday is the one projected to be a potential washout. The rest, as you say, depends on which weather app you choose. I like the more optimistic ones. BBC is relentlessly pessimistic on weather these days, ever since Michael Fish failed to predict a storm in 1987.

It’s currently looking OK in Salford (about 2 miles from the ground, as the rented helicopter flies) but there’s been a bit of rain.

Met Office and BBC forecasts round these parts have been wildly divergent recently, as I type this the BBC forecast for today features quite a lot of ‘Thundery Showers’ icons , particularly for the morning session whereas the Met Office doesn’t show any point with more than a 10% of precipitation.

One guarantee is that there will be uncertainty about the weather on Friday, when I am due to be there. After a full day’s play when I attended Headingley, my luck is surely going to to run out.

Local weather forecasts – especially rain radar readings/projections – might come in handy this week. Is that within the remit of a Private First Class such as Hudson or do we need a Commissioned Officer / Regular Contributor to supply those?