Weather Betting
Weather betting with Free Betting Online
Weather betting is a specialist area of "novelty" betting markets (typically listed under "specials" on online betting sites) and one that attracts a surprising number of punters each month. Just goes to show that the Great British public will bet on anything! Given the British climate, you would expect evens on rain, hail, sleet, and snow, but thankfully this isn"t the case: bookies take a surprisingly optimistic approach to weather prediction to the extent that they even allow punters to make high temperature predictions.
Weather Betting Markets
Note that betting markets for the weather are something of a rarity and that you will have to search to find them (see our recommendations below). However, we should also mention more significant weather related markets such as betting on whether it will be a white Christmas - a perennial favourite with online bookmakers. We also noticed that Paddy Power allow you to bet on a "wet Wimbledon", so kudos to them for enabling us to wager on how many bowls of strawberries get ruined by rain!
Weather Betting Information
Standard markets for betting on the weather are temperature markets, where punters back predictions for the temperature in a given month. Options include exact prediction or backing a temperature range, for example x degrees or higher/lower. Given the nature of the market, betting options are seasonal with top temperature prediction being the standard during British summertime to be replaced by lowest temperature markets in winter. Also look out other weather specials such as the occasional average rainfall markets.
As we began to suggest above, not every bookie will offer markets for weather bets. In fact, out of all the bookies we checked, the betting exchange Betfair were the only site that had such markets. Something of a limited area of online betting, then, but still worth a wee wager!
Free Bets in Weather Betting
For free bets on the weather, our recommended bookmaker is (you"ve guessed it) Betfair. You will have to sign up for an account with them to take advantage of their current free betting offers.
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