But most fictional weather, like most real weather, is passing.
Like most festivals, the weather is the uncontrollable X factor, and this year it somewhat behaved with warm if muggy temps in the first few days, a downpour or two of rain on Saturday and an unseasonably cool Sunday.
During the first half of the month, the most unsettled weather was again over Northern Ireland and Scotland.
The definition of sustained winds recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and used by most weather agencies is that of a 10-minute average at a height of 10 m (33 ft).
Stay #weatheraware @metofficeUK pic.twitter.com/QWTV3zwvUe "[Most of the] warm weather is coming Thursday night into Friday.
Warm frontal weather is most frequently characterized by stratiform clouds, which ascend as the front approaches and potentially yield rain or snow.
Uhuru Peak, 19,340 ft. THE BEST TIME TO GO is January and February, or August and September, when the weather is most favorable.
The thickness of the weather is most obvious just at dusk, when the heat tapers off a bit but the humidity comes into its own.
When to go? Spring is the best time to visit, when the weather is most favourable for exploring by foot, but there's always a wide range of events going on.
Philip Smith, trade relations manager of the British Tourist Authority in London and a director of Waterway Holidays UK, a consortium of waterway operators, says he regards May, June and September as the best time to be on the canals because that is when they are not so crowded and good weather is most likely.
