Monday, June 25, 2007

Wimbledon Day 1: Watering the Lawn



First round play begins at Wimbledon at noon today GMT (the crack o' dawn here). Many big names have matches scheduled.

Roger Federer will be going for his fifth consecutive title. Justine Henin will be going for a career Grand Slam (winning all four major titles at least once over the course of the career).

The Brit-o-meter is in the doldrums, because Andy Murray has had to withdraw from the tournament due to a a wrist injury that hasn't cleared up in time.

The Draws (in PDF format) - Right-click and choose "Save target as..." in the popup menu. The mixed doubles draw will be done later.

And here now is the weather forecast for southern England. As if I need to tell you ;-)

"Often cloudy, rain or showers, some heavy."

But here's my favorite part:

Heavy rain at times in the north and west. Any bright or sunny intervals elsewhere will lead to scattered heavy showers developing, some with thunder and torrential downpours. Showers merging to longer spells of rain later, some heavy.

Do you think that got the point across?

Passing over the tone (which makes Tim Henman sound like an optimist), did you notice the second sentence? According to it bright skies and sunshine "lead to" rain.

One can see how one could come to think like that from living in a climate like that. But don't worry, I assure you that sunny skies do not cause rain. (Psst, it's all them clouds.)

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