Met-Roulette is a little game we like to play here occasionally. Often times we find ourselves with a relatively or particularly early flight the next day, yet all you really want to do is relax and socialise – usually all night.
Now flights have this terrible habit of being cancelled due to various weather phenomena common in these parts, ranging from too strong a cross-wind to early morning radiation fog and the rare thunderstorm. This is where the game comes in. Well it’s a game as much as Russian Roulette is a game i.e. the risks are quite high. The gist of it is that we look at the forecast for the next morning, stare at all the charts, and decide what are the chances of the flight being cancelled. The idea is that if the weather is going to be bad, you can afford to go out, simply get up, your instructor cancels the flight, and you can sleep in. However, the forecasts are often wrong, or not accurate enough to predict so specifically what the weather will be at a particular time.
The reason I bring this up is because I now find myself in this exact situation. The weather is forecast to be unsuitable tomorrow morning, and it’s a friend’s graduation tonight so I really want to go out. Sadly I’m not brave enough to play this game, so it looks like an alcohol free night ahead of me tonight. But the temptation is very strong, very very strong!
