Mother Nature Not Smiling On Extra Weekend

I was all set to head up for my final trip of the year to the point, but now it looks like I have to cancel my plans the weekend Sandusky forecast looks terrible nothing but storms.

What a Bummer :(

Upper 70's/low 80's with only a 40% chance of storms? OK. You go ahead an cancel now, I'll keep my plans and take advantage of some great empty lines.

Something I learned this summer while working; if the forecast is rain, it most likely won't rain, or just rain for a very, very short time. I cannot tell you how many times everyone on the crew came in after seeing thunderstorms in the forecast, only to be let down by a completely sunny day. If I were you, I'd go.

Its true. Anything less than like 75% you can count on it being dry most if not all of the day. And even at that high of a chance it still may not rain.

I want to, I love that extra weekend, no lines. The thing that bothers me is it pretty much has storms in the forecast from dawn till dusk, I just fear a washout. I'm sure if I go it will rain the whole time, If I stay it will be a beautiful sunny day. Not to mention from the looks of the forecast my whole 4 hour driving trip would be in rain, that's the real bad part, I hope it gets better, I know if I wait till next weekend it will be packed.

Where are you getting your forecast?

This far out, an hour-by-hour forecast is useless. The only time it begins to become viable is within about 24 hours, anything before that is just guessing.

Wunderground

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Another thing I found through experience is that a large storm cloud passing over the Point will most likely not dump anything. That's what was really aggravating; having a nice black cloud pass right over without even a drop.

The weather always changes.

I've checked many forecasts, the only positive one was with accu weather, all the others didn't look good

Please, be my guest and stay home.

I agree with Exit. It may rain, it may not... If it does, I can go watch the ND game in my cabin at LHP and wait for it to clear up. (Yes, I know we got beat big time last weekend, but I am still a fan) If it doesn't rain, I will get more rides, and hopefully because of the forecast it is even less busy then it would have been. Unlike the storms that the area faced a few weeks ago, this doesn't look like a washout at all.

I'm just looking for a relaxing weekend, and I will have one regardless of what is falling from the sky.

At least ND got beat by a division 1-A opponent (and a ranked one at that).

I still plan to be there Saturday. The only way I'd cancel is if the rain forecast is about 75-80% chance. Even then, I've been to the park on "stormy" days and it's actually great. If you wait out the periodic storms, the park is virtually empty. People that live relatively close like Cleveland or Toledo will take off and go home or else not come at all. As long as the mosquitoes aren't horrible it should be a great time.

if I lived close I would certainly be there but I hate driving through a lot of stormy weather, I'm still hoping to go, I can only go one more time this year and I was pretty set on this week. I'll just make my mind up at the last minute.

I learned on our last trip that rain doesn't ruin everything. We went on August 19th and 20th, when all that flooding was going on, and got on more coasters/rides than we would have on a sunny day.

So, I recommend going, but of course it's just my opinion.

e x i t english said:
Please, be my guest and stay home.

My sentiments exactly.

JuggaLotus said:
At least ND got beat by a division 1-A opponent (and a ranked one at that).

Yeah, it hasn't been easy cheering for the Maize and Blue this past week, has it?.

Even if it storms it's usually over in an hour or so.

We had two three day trips to CP this year where the forecast was for 60%-70% chance of rain/storms for each day. For those six days we had two hours of rain in the afternoon on one day.

MrInkspot@aol.com said:
Yeah, it hasn't been easy cheering for the Maize and Blue this past week, has it?.

It's never easy cheering for a team that sucks. ;-)

Maize and Blue feels like that this week.

Red and Gray feels like that all the time. ;)