Does the weather effect Sky?

[Proppinupthebar]

"Effect" means "to bring about" or "cause to happen". If you mean "affect" the answer is yes. The weather affected my first dish so much that, after only ten years, it was a lump of rust!

That pedant hat still fits well Sam!

Arqiva's uplink site at Chalfont had a few rain fades over the weekend due to severe weather.

[Proppinupthebar]

Get a zone 2 dish fitted, and you won't have problems like that again

I've worked for a well known cable company looking after the national feeds, with dual 3 metre dishes, and at least 3 times in 5 years we completely flatlined a Spectrum analyser looking at the output of the dish due to rain fade.

[Smithy99]

Sorry, I should have said that it will reduce the drop outs during all but the heavy rain.

[Undecided Adrian]

We had an almighty electrical storm 2 nights ago and it knocked Sky out for about an hour and the dish is all ok etc

[Proppinupthebar]

We had an almighty electrical storm 2 nights ago and it knocked Sky out for about an hour and the dish is all ok etc

It might have affected your Sky box but it didn't affect Sky themselves.