The weather has a major impact on outdoor sports, from Formula 1 to golf and Sunday league football - our services help management, ground staff, coaches, spectators and amateur enthusiasts to plan ahead and minimise the effects of the weather.

Should you fit wet weather tyres or dry? Cover the lawns or let them breathe? Sometimes, you can't beat straight answers to direct questions. Our Talk to a forecaster service can offer you just that...

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Inclement weather can disrupt many sporting events, so routine use of weather information over a full season can bring financial savings - and help you to keep managers, participants and spectators happy.

We provide a wide range of services to major tennis and golf tournaments, football clubs and racecourses. Timely forecasts can, for example, help club and ground staff to prepare or protect playing surfaces more efficiently. And weather information is, of course, vital for safety in sports like motor racing.

• Information on rainfall enables more efficient water use, while temperature and frost forecasts enable more cost-effective, energy-conserving use of under-soil heating
  
  
• Event organisers can anticipate attendance numbers for crowd management purposes, safety, catering and so on
  
  
• Advance information enables a more rapid response to changing weather during play
  
  
• Team managers and coaching staff can adapt tactics to suit the conditions
  
  
• Athletes can adjust training schedule to allow for weather changes
  
  
• Weather tips from the Met Office can give bookmakers and betting enthusiasts an edge
  
  
• Spectators can avoid costly journeys to events that are likely to be cancelled