posted Nov 30th, 2012 - Friday ended for the NSL News with a live talk in the media room. Gary Smith and Jeremie Rollett took the time before leaving the drop zone.

Meeting in the media room was also running for cover at the same time. The storm had not completely left by the end of the day and threw a few more bands of wind and rain at the Mondial 2012. The official opening ceremony was scheduled for Friday evening and has now been postponed until Sunday. The event management has more time to prepare for a show that is also expected to be impressive and unique.

It is quite amazing how the weather has been a factor at each World Championship of Formation Skydiving since 2004. The hosts are always selecting the best time of the year wherever the event takes place. However, the world meets still seem to be "weather jinxed".

A very heavy storm had taken down the complete tent city at the World Meet 2004 in Croatia. It happened just a few days before the event began, and the host managed to move the complete tent city, or whatever was left of it and was usable, into the hangar. The competition still began on time.

The weather in Germany 2006 was not much better, even though there was no damage this time. However, the bad weather had a serious impact, as this world meet became one of the shortest in history. A tornado then hit Maubeuge just a few days before the first day of the World Meet 2008. The drop zone was lucky that the tornado left its destructive path only a mile away.

Menzelinsk had neither a storm nor rain in 2010, however, almost whole Russia was burning down under a heat wave with brush and turf fires everywhere. The whole meet was under a smoke cover. The meet was completed in 2010, and so will be the one in Dubai. Nobody is worried, and the locals said that it rains one day per year. That was yesterday, and now the planes are in the air...