Just curious. Had 2 nites of heavy rain and thunderstorms and was wondering if the fireworks still get set off. I heard that they are required to set them off every nite for safety. Just looking for some more elaboration and clarification
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Cancelled fireworks
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sxeensweet
Love a little Disney every day!! ;)
They have been canceled for weather before so no they don't always have them. 
ToTBellHop
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Only ever seen them delayed, not canceled. And I've seen Wishes in a deluge (from Contemporary, thankfully). I've experienced rain delays up to an hour for IllumiNations and Wishes. Only ever seen Fantasmic cancelled outright. Doubt they can launch during t-storms though.
ToTBellHop
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I would imagine it would require a persistent storm with lightning for the hour following the fireworks. They run if they can.
Last May, they actually started Wishes early (night of the 2015 24-hour party actually) due to an approaching storm.
Disneyland on the other hand cancels all the time. Someone sneezes and they call it too windy.
Eddie Garrison
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We had another decent lightning storm come through about an hour or so ago again this evening. I would assume the shows were postponed again tonight as well. It let up about 15-20 minutes ago her in Dr. Phillips, which we are about 5 miles from property.
ninjaprincesst
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A castmember at Epcot told me once the fireworks are loaded they have to set them off.The entire illuminations might not happen but the fireworks will go.at some point
WDW Monorail
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Thunderstorms generally have no effect on the performance of a show unless the show is unable to be loaded in a timely or safe manner.
If a show is loaded but has to be cancelled for some reason, it would make no sense to unload everything since that show will be performed anyway the next night.
I don't know of a time when a special event based show was cancelled and had to be unloaded due to Wishes being scheduled for the next night. The special show would just be performed when able later in the night. I do know of a time that a show started, was stopped for safety reasons and then resumed later in the night.
Wind can be an issue but it's easy to shed cues which would cause problems if high winds are present.
If a show is loaded but has to be cancelled for some reason, it would make no sense to unload everything since that show will be performed anyway the next night.
I don't know of a time when a special event based show was cancelled and had to be unloaded due to Wishes being scheduled for the next night. The special show would just be performed when able later in the night. I do know of a time that a show started, was stopped for safety reasons and then resumed later in the night.
Wind can be an issue but it's easy to shed cues which would cause problems if high winds are present.
DManRightHere
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We've had a delay of about 45 minutes before. It was a very heavy thunderstorm. We also had a dessert party that night, but it all worked out.
PanInFlight
Active Member
Last night the Star Wars fireworks were canceled then they shot them off half an hour after the park was closed because yes they have to fire them once loaded no matter what. Same with fantasmic they shot off all the pyro from fantasmic around 9 pm after the park closed.
sxeensweet
Love a little Disney every day!! ;)
Yep that's crazy they have to do that and sucks for those that missed them but I had heard that before too. Thanks for the update on the ones cancelled last night.
