Today the story today is, even more than usual, the weather. On the three-minute walk from the Dream Princess (the cruise ship where most of us are staying), to our base in the paddock this morning it was already heavily overcast and a bit foreboding.

Each morning Chris Bedford provides us a weather slide for the Blog and the Morning Show and, well, take a look....

Yikes!

That's the first time I have seen or heard Chris B, our normally understated and sunny team Met man, use the world "wild."

In Malmo there was no race the last day because of dense fog and no wind. Here's hoping we don't get blown out here today.

As I write this we have just had a brief but furious downpour. Get the seasickness pills ready on the VIP boats, and hang on to your hats.

Go the 76!