2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship Forecast and Projections
We’re teeing off for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship this week, and in a locale shrouded with weather mystery (Bermuda), it’s fitting the weather will play a role.
As usual in my golf weather forecasts, we’re focusing more on wind than rain. While rain can halt play if it’s heavy enough, it also helps soften and slow the course, which helps as much as it hurts. With wind, there’s no helpful side; it’s all negative impact. And the impact can lead to dramatic differences in scoring. My goal is always to try to highlight the time frame with the lightest winds and the time frame with the strongest winds to see if there’s a cumulative advantage for one wave over another. You can then use this to your advantage when making your picks on the best DFS sites.
Butterfield Bermuda Championship Weather Forecast
Thursday, November 14th
Winds are an issue right out of the gate. We should see sustained winds around 25 mph early with stronger gusts, tapering off a hair in the afternoon but likely still blowing at 20 mph sustained.
Friday, November 15th
It could still be a bit breezy early Friday (10-15mph sustained winds), but those will subside and leave us with fairly quiet weather in the late morning and early afternoon. By the late afternoon and early evening, winds start to climb again, but I expect we’ll be done with golf before things get ugly again Friday night.
Saturday, November 16th
Now, we bring rain into the mix. Looks wet and windy to start Saturday, with the best conditions coming around noon before winds pick up again later in the day.
Sunday, November 17th
Winds are strongest in the morning and lighter the later we go in the day.
Butterfield Bermuda Championship Weather Thoughts
Let me start with a disclaimer: Forecasting in Bermuda is a challenge. Weather is wildly variable, and I don’t have some of the same forecast tools I lean on heavily for forecasting in the United States. That said, I think the best choice is (always) to avoid the worst of the wind, which likely arrives Thursday morning. The rest of the day Thursday is no cake-walk, but it should be slightly better in the afternoon than the morning, so I prefer a Thursday PM / Friday AM build simply for that reason. Going that route with your build likely does put you in a slightly worse spot on Friday, but I think, in general, the weather on Friday should be much more manageable than what we’ll see on Thursday.
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