Spring weather is hard for professional meteorologists to predict at the best of times, but with conflicting forecasts telling the public it may or may not rain, Aintree clerk of the course Sulekha Varma has had her work cut out.
"We are, unfortunately, not able to plan too far ahead," said Varma, who yesterday changed the ground on the Grand National course to 'good to soft, good in places'. "Basically, the forecasters are telling us they don’t know beyond Tuesday and Wednesday - some think it is going to be dry, some think it is going to be wet," she told the Mirror.
Aintree's policy is to tailor the National going to the easy side of good, but heavy rainfall on top of watered ground due to poor accuracy of forecasts could see the track become boggy.
