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Hi, I'm storing my TT outdoors over-winter and there's a great deal of good advice on that subject in earlier posts, the most important being to open it up for a good airing about once a month.  So on a lovely morning like this I go outside and think "Hmmm... nice sunny morning, light breeze, air feels dry - perfect... Yea, you know the story don't you?  Get the tarpaulin off, roll it out, jack the legs down, open up the top, and... Oh, is that rain?!  I swear (often do) that I could hire myself out to local farmers!  Or you wait till the afternoon so the grass is nice and dry, get it all out and give it a good couple of hours drying, then all of a sudden the temperature drops a tad and everything suddenly starts fo feel all damp.  By the time you've got it packed up you know it's just as damp as when you got it out - how frustrating!

For those of you under the same cloud, I've found a website that gives really detailed hour-by-hour forecasts based on your postcode, but the best thing about it is that it gives dewpoint temperatures., so you can get a really good idea whether it's actually going to be a good drying day. (The dewpoint is the temperature below which anything out there is going to start feeling damp - as long as the forecast dewpoint temperature is above the forecast temperature, you're OK - the bigger the difference, the better)

I haven't tested it yet, but I was going to get the TT out today, so I just checked it out:  Dewpoint temperature 10 degrees f above forecast temperature, and no rain till 2pm.  It's 10am now, so that's looking good.  Hang on, though... wind speed rising to force 4 in the next hour, peaking at force 5 with 25mph gusts by midday.  Ah well, not today then, but I'm glad to have saved myself the excitement of putting it away in a gale!

Here's the site's welcome page, and I'd be really interested to hear how well it works out if anyone uses it to choose an airing day.

I'm a travelling technophile (Geek) - I get email and web on my 'phone - how sad is that?!!!