Ryder Cup- Very windy start at Gleneagles

THURS-looking very windy for the first day, and although it is feeling close and humid today, a cold front overnight (with rain) will make things less muggy and cooler for Friday. If you are travelling from the south over the Forth Road Bridge there can be restrictions. Keep an eye on @TrafficScotland

TUES- Team USA have arrived, the sun is coming out once more in Perthshire. Tartan Tuesday press photos show blue skies, sunshine and super Cirrus. There are warm-ups, practice rounds and press conferences over the next few days. The end of the week looks blustery on Friday, fine for Saturday and a bit grey on Sunday, but still that is 5 days off so do check back with the forecast. Thunderstorm risk is low to very low. 

Fourball/Foursomes

Friday 26th

Fresh W winds (20-25mph) right across the PGA Centenary Course gusting 35-40mph, easing to moderate (15mph) by evening

Cool, drier air 15C  59F  65% humidity

Early rain should have cleared by start time, just. The skies will continue to look at bit ominous in the morning with threat of rain but it won't come too much and afternoon will be brighter with sunshine

Sat 27th

Moderate SW winds (15mph) freshing in afternoon 20mph

Warmer 17C  63F early high humidity down to 55%

Grey, misty start, brightening up with sunshine. Fine

Singles

Sunday 28th

Similar wind conditions to Saturday Moderate SW winds easing to light late afternoon.

16C 61F Higher humidity 85%

Rather grey murky day, feeling a bit damp

How to find your own golfing weather forecast data

Simplest way is to use our 7 day site forecast 

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=uk7dayx7;ct=12289~Gleneagles;sess=#forecast

For more details or to tailor your own forecast there is plenty more data available on the Netweather site

Thunderstorms

The easiest way to check out the risk of a Thunderstorm is to use the Will It? page. 

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=wist;sess= Type in your golf course location and you get a probability of thunder at that location. Gleneagles up until Saturday is under 20%, so not very likely.

Rain

In Scotland, usually you have to get on and play in the rain but if you are looking to avoid some heavy downpours or spot the progress of thunderstorms elsewhere, check out the radar

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=   Press 'Anim On' to animate the sequence of rainfall data and you can see which way the actual showers or rain of the day are travelling.

Again there are forecast charts available in Netweather Extra (the subscription service) to see further ahead

Wind

Forecast wind data for Friday. The left hand side part shows surface winds at 1pm on Friday (12Z). The feathers on the tail of the wind arrow are 10mph each, and the arrow is travelling in the direction the wind is going to. So this Westerly wind (coming from the West) is around 20mph near Gleneagles (the red dot). you can see northern Scotland is more windy with 3 feathers on the wind arrows (30mph strong winds) and for N.Ireland 1 full feather and a half = 5mph so total is 15mph moderate winds there. The right-hand side of the image shows gust strength, a sudden brief increase in the wind. Not all air masses are likely to have gusts but Friday's forecast shows greeny yellow of 35mph gusts. There is a key on each Netweather chart. You can see away over northern Scotland oranges of gusts likely to reach 50mph

Humidity

Along with the wind, temperature, rainfall and cloud forecast charts is a humidity at 2m hieght. (there are other humidity charts at various different heigtht thorugh the atmosphere for other forecast uses, but these wouldn't be used for golf unless you really had hoofed it up in the air). Sunday is going to be a more damp day as you can see with the oranges of 85% over Perthshire