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The Morning Cuppa…Weather

Posted on August 16, 2024

Saturday, 17 August:

4 days until kick-off. Day of.

Dun-dun.

Departure day draws close. It’s not just a bit of a joy to have a look at the Google 7 Day Forecast and see my travel and return dates are included in the forecast. The weather looks good enough. True, it’s not Costa Brava or Bloomfield Hills August hot. But to this old man anything north of 70f I’ll have it. For the moment just a dash of rain rolls through on the Friday.

There is an old lighthouse on the end of Folkestone’s pier. On it is the quote: ‘Weather is a Third to Place and Time’. This is never more fitting that to Folkestone. When you catch the weather fare it’s a delight. You smile morning. Noon. And Night. Get it wrong, with bracing winds and pelting rain and it’s no fun at all. My first visit to Euro in 2003 witnessed spectacularly hot weather which while making for all manner of antics in shorts out in the balmy evening weather, it also made the Leas Cliff Hall rather smelly and the bedrooms in the hotel like a sauna. I didn’t witness temperatures that hot again until 2016 which saw a summer so scorching hot it hadn’t been witnessed since the scorching summer of 194o during the battle of Britain.

I’ve also experienced Euro and Folkestone when the weather made me want to turn round and return to Spain. The first Euro Miniatures Expo in 2017 so cold dreary weather and pelting rain for both the Saturday and Sunday. Same for December of 2022 when I had my family to London for the Christmas holidays. We then went down to Folkestone for a few days and saw some of the wildest winds and rain along the Channel imaginable. We stayed in the View Hotel that late December trip between Christmas and New Year and had a front row seat to the wild storm in the English Channel from our Leas facing hotel rooms. It was glorious to watch, and terrible to be out in.

We’re expecting much better weather in August. But always I double check the weather on the day before we fly incase there is any drastic changes to the forecast.

That’s all for today.

The journey is everything.