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Looks like a rubbish weekend weather wise. The birds on their way to Fraserburgh doesn't look like they'll get them away till Monday unless forecast changes. When will summer arrive?

Murray wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 7:43 am

Steve Howells wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 6:52 am Looks like a rubbish weekend weather wise. The birds on their way to Fraserburgh doesn't look like they'll get them away till Monday unless forecast changes. When will summer arrive?

I thought summer in the UK was usually on a Tuesday.....

Trouble is we never know which Tuesday

There's showers both days but I'm sure you could race tomorrow but most feds are racing Sunday now ,the amount of rain they show in some areas if u sneeze there be more water, unless on the weather app its green then that's real rain all these blue marks on map are f all its like 0.1mm of rain If a pigeon refuses to race through that there bloody rubbish.

Trev wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2024 7:56 am

MIL wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 4:21 pm Isn't it more the case of making use of the technology available to us these days ?

It is mate but sadly I'm not sure that the modern technology is any more accurate than the old methods !!!
You can look at several different apps and they all give you different answers how can that be when they all use the same satellite's
The old farmers and gardeners used to predict the weather better than technology does today !!

They pretty much got it right for Eastern Scotland today. Fraserburgh hold over due to low cloud and large bands of rain along flight path. Trouble is convoyers can’t win, if they put them up when there’s rain about and it’s a bad race they get vilified, if they delay basketing by a day and the weather turns out better than expected they equally vilified.

I liked old way go Fri no matter what ,over a ten Yr period you never got many hold overs ,but this modern way of doing things is here to stay now.