But then others objected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.
The buoys also contain weather-sensing devices that test for surface temperatures, subsurface temperatures, wind speed, and other indications of changing weather.
All of the England players and fans would vastly prefer to win this Test through play than weather.
Though frustrated on that occasion, Miller was the most impressive player in the opening exchanges, with the fine playing surface and pleasant weather creating the perfect conditions to test the Steelmen for fatigue.
For the British are subject to two utterly random forces that regularly test their stoicism and their patience: the weather and the buses.
"Disastrous flooding puts near 7 feet of flow in buildings in the jet engine test facility at Kelly AFB, " the National Weather Service said.
The satellite launched by Seoul is designed to analyze weather data, measure radiation in space, gauges distances on earth and test how effectively South Korean-made devices installed on the satellite operate in space.
Foster and the rest of his MCC teammates, including Test hopefuls Michael Vaughan and Ian Bell, will be hoping for better weather on the final day at Lord's, with only 89 overs bowled so far.
If the forecast is for humid, unsettled weather, Onions will have the opportunity to continue the impressive start he made to his Test career against the curiously de-motivated West Indies.
Giving evidence to the Transport Select Committee on 14 March 2011, he described the weather as "exceptionally severe" and that "any transport system would have been put to the test".
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