Whither weather?

[nineveh_uk]

As is my wont I am looking obsessively at the weather forecast for where I shall be going on holiday in a month's time, in this case St Anton am Arlberg and St Gallen. www.yr.no, the Norwegian weather service which appears to have weather forecasts for everywhere in the world, accurately (at least when I've been there) and in English*, is forecasting 4C max next Thursday and Friday. I think that on this occasion I'm going to assume they're very, very wrong**.

Anyway, it won't be my problem because for once I have booked myself a week off in Oxford and on Wednesday I am going to be in London for the athletics.

*Also Bokmål (Norwegian), Nynorsk (Norwegian with even more terrifying spelling), Kvääni (Kven), and Davvisámegiella (Northern Sami).

**That said, Bergfex has 12/11C listed, so not as wrong as I'd hope if it were my holiday next week.

Comments

[naraht]

Meanwhile I'm just staring at the weather for this afternoon, which looks notably ungood. I hope you fare better on holiday, and indeed for the athletics!

(I'm in similar suspense as regards St Petersburg and Moscow in three weeks... summery or non-summery? It could go either way.)

[nineveh_uk]

It's not looking great, it is? On the other hand, it beats sitting at home in the rain.

The athletics does at least have a roof, so the main spectator issue is being cold. Fortunately there aren't any events that are likely to be rain affected that evening.

[antisoppist]

Ooh Kven does not have the Finnish words for north-east, south-west, etc. and uses combinations of north and west etc. like normal people though its words for north and south are Finnish and its words for east and west are Scandinavian.

It's not that I don't appreciate the way Finnish has entirely different words for south-east, etc. I think it's great that they are totally separate concepts, it's just I can't remember which one is which because there isn't a slot for them in my head. My first Finnish teacher said just to remember that lounas was south-west because that's the most commonly used one because that's where everything comes from.

Here it is sunny and raining at the same time.

[nineveh_uk]

I am happy to have provided interesting Finnish-linked linguistic facts! I quite like the idea of 8 words for the compass points, but given that it is tricky enough to remember which of east and west is the one on the right, it does sound like it makes life more complicated.

The thunder did turn up, but I managed to be on the bus/in the pub mostly when it happened.

[caulkhead]

My partner (who uses about six different weather forecasts simultaneously, which is great for holiday planning but a pain if, say, you want to know if it's a good idea to leave the washing out) says bergfex.ch is usually pretty accurate

[nineveh_uk]

Bergfex does seem good at mountain weather. On the downside, they don't predict really far ahead, but given the issues around mountains, that's probably part of why they're good.

For washing I'm quite fond of raintoday.co.uk

[sir_guinglain]

I think you deserve a week off in Oxford, fwiw.

[nineveh_uk]

Thanks, I am enjoying it!