The weather didn’t help the Spanish Armada any.
:’) There’s a cool anecdote about Francis Drake; the day of the battle he took in a game of lawn bowling or something, and had someone come tell him when it was time to go. He’d encountered the Spanish fire ships during his daring, successful, surprise attack on, hmm, I forget the name of the Spanish port, so it was probably natural that he’d suggest the same tactics against the Armada, especially given Britain’s naval numerical inferiority. :’)