What will you be doing next tests you on future structures.
English has a wide and subtle range of Future verb structures: here's your chance to grapple with them once again and to distinguish their formation and purpose. 'What will you be doing next?' Wait and see, from Question to Question!
We do sometimes use a simple present verb to express future action ~ but not with weather conditions, which typically last for a while (hence the Continuous element in the language to say so).
Even in Britain, rain is still not quite compulsory (Answer 3)!