They used to plan not just for major live events but for the end of popular soaps like Eastenders. With live TV becoming less important culturally and renewables eating the world most of their forecasting these days goes into weather predictions I think. Interestingly even other forms of power generation are affected by the heatwaves we have seen recently - it can reduce gas turbine efficiency by 10% or so and can even reduce the safe output of nuclear if their cooling water comes from a source that gets too warm.

But I’m sure the World Cup is still pretty relevant for operations.