O.K. it s Thursday.
You have a camping trip planned and this is what the Weather Channel says ............ Would you cancel or go?
QuoteToday
Jun 05 Partly Cloudy 77ø/56ø (10 % chance)
Fri
Jun 06 Partly Cloudy 79ø/59ø (0 % chance)
Sat
Jun 07 Rain 67ø/64ø (40 % chance)
Sun
Jun 08 Isolated T-Storms 74ø/61ø (30 % chance)
Oh, and it s a whole hours drive!
JeffreyHere in New England, forecasts are accurate for the next six hours, an educated guess for the 6-24 hour range, a crapshoot for the following day, and pure entertainment beyond that.
In other words, the forecast given on Thursday is only good for Friday. Nobody knows what s going to happen after that.
Austin
JeffreyAnd sometimes they don t even get the 6 hour forecasts right!!! BUT my motto has become " Camping in the rain is better than NOT camping!"
garym053Garymo53,
I disagree respectfully, Even the dogs know enough to get out of the rain.
JeffreySorry, I don t buy your reasoning! I have an awning on the pop-up. I have a quik Shade canopy over the picnic table & cooking area, and listening to the rain while reading a good book or just watching the drops hit the ground is very relaxing! I ll take RAINY camping to NOT camping any day!
JeffreyI agree with gary. We work too hard for our money to end up cancelling reservations just because of rain (and in NY with Reserve America, it can cost some $$ to cancel last minute [:@] ). And we worked wayyyyy too hard to purchase the pop up. There s no way it s going to sit at home just because of a rainy forcast.
It rained late Friday of Memorial Day weekend and part of Saturday, then it started to clear and Sunday was beautiful until 10pm. It rained over night and was misty when we broke camp to head home. All in all we had a great weekend- we got bike riding in, walked the dogs, ate well, slept great and best of all, we weren t home!
The rain just doesn t slow us down. We simply can t afford for it to. [:)]
JeffreyI m one of two at this point that wouldn t go. Just don t care to have to worry about getting the tenting dry. Now if it were reversed to where the rain was to be at the beginning of the trip, that would make a big difference.
PS: Starting the search for a smaller 5 er which we hope to purchase within the next 2 years. When that happens, this will no longer be an issue.
JeffreyI think you are just being mean with you low chances of rain. It has rained and been cold so much here that I could not put in my garden. We would go with 80% chance every day. We have rain coats put at the end of the trunk by the door so we can get them before we begin to set up
JeffreyWe didn t learn to set up in the rain for nothing! Some of our best trips have been the rainy ones. Besides, we don t shrink (although it would certainly be great for weight control).
JeffreyYou have greater odds that it won t rain than that it will! If I let a 30 to 40% chance of rain keep me from camping, I would have missed many a good camping trip.
Jeffrey
QuoteI think you are just being mean with you low chances of rain.
I m confused at what that means?[&:] It was just a forecast I copied from the weather channel site. I didn t write it.
And I don t control the weather believe it or not? [:D]
JeffreyNo guarantee it is going to rain, so you bet we would go. More room at the campground for us.
JeffreyI have to say that you all back east are experiencing a typical Chicago spring...cold and rainy for EVER.
So yes we would go, rain or no rain. But when I complained the other day about an inaccurate weather forecast, DS says, " Mom, everybody complains about the weatherman, but he has the toughest job in the world. Newscasters just talk about the past, what s already happened -- weathermen predict the future!"
texacokat
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JeffreyDD is going tent camping today with similar forcast (rain, thunder storms - maybe severe, and lows in the mid to upper 50 s).
It s with a group of graduated senior girls from high school. Really no experience in camping.
Our DD has camped (including tent) in heavy rain with a tent that leaked very badly, but she is the most experienced. Glad I m not the mother going with them[:D][:D]
We offered to come along with the camper, but DD says .........
NO WAY
Think she s trying to tell us something.
whitestar505
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Quote97 GMC Safari
Hey, that s my TV!! Someone trying to tell me something about rain and my TV???? Or is my TV proof that we can t cancel our reservations???[8D]
JeffreyOK, last Thursdays forcast was:
Friday- Cloudy w/showers- 70/56
Saturday- Rain - 69/55
Sunday- Cloudy w/showers 72/60
The weather actually turned out great. Friday is was cloudy when we set up camp, no rain, though.
Saturday dawned sunny and gorgeous. We took a long hike and by 5pm it got cloudy. Rained on and off from 6pm throughout the night.
Sunday- cloudy in the morning but no rain. Went on some great off road trails biking. Cleared mid afternoon. Everything was pretty much dried out by the time we broke camp Sunday evening.
The park was practically empty, except for a few families that sounded just like us- won t and can t cancel just because of the forcast. We just can t trust the weatherpeople up here to be accurate.
I m glad we didn t miss out on this weekend! [:D]
Great trip!
kathybrj
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OK, last Thursdays forcast was:
Friday- Cloudy w/showers- 70/56
Saturday- Rain - 69/55
Sunday- Cloudy w/showers 72/60
The weather actually turned out great. Friday is was cloudy when we set up camp, no rain, though.
Saturday dawned sunny and gorgeous. We took a long hike and by 5pm it got cloudy. Rained on and off from 6pm throughout the night.
Sunday- cloudy in the morning but no rain. Went on some great off road trails biking. Cleared mid afternoon. Everything was pretty much dried out by the time we broke camp Sunday evening.
The park was practically empty, except for a few families that sounded just like us- won t and can t cancel just because of the forcast. We just can t trust the weatherpeople up here to be accurate.
I m glad we didn t miss out on this weekend! [:D]
Great trip!
Went camping the weekend also -- the weather was fantastic.
Georgous, sunny, new rain, not hot.
At nights, no clouds just the dark sky with a beautiful blanket of stars
Whe more could we have asked for.....
The groups around us who don t go with the rules
NO MORE THAN 2 VEHICLES PER SITE -- 1 across from us had 4 cars on it
with a truck parked 1/2 way in the street right by our site
NO MORE THAN 6 PEOPLE PER SITE -- 1 had at least 20 for when they spread
out ended up taking our site in the woods with the picnic table and the fire
ring, so we had to go to another site - not as shaded and prone to all
the other sites around and behind us.
BEING IN A " NO" PET ZONE AND HAVING DOGS WITH YOU
Don t get me wrong, we have 5 dogs and love them all dearly, but when I
camp in a NO PET area, that s what I expect.
We are planning on the teenager boy/girl weekend in July as usual. We have always counted the group and got the appropriate # of sites. I told DH that maybe we should just pay for 1 site and keep the cost down. He said that just because others don t play by the rules, doesn t mean that shouldn t.
My only problem is that it wasn t just 1 here and there having way too many people or having too many cars, it was a whole lot. The CG looked more like a used car lot.........
JeffreyYes, this poll has been here awhile, so I will answer it with the info I have to date. As stated on the dum tv weather last night we have had 10+ inchs this month over our norm . Our norm is around 6 inchs for june. So we are talking in the range of 16 inchs of rain for June and we have 8 days yet. So yes I would cancell my trip. We have had around 19 rainly weekend so far this year. [: (]
Jeffreyi have only ever canceled once and it was because i was really sick...so what does the dh do after i cancel, reserved a trip on the bus to AC....so i pretty much sat at one machine (nickle one) and spent a couple hundred bucks. we did walk around the board walk and stuff....but i wasn t feeling all that good.