Weather Forecast for the Slowtona 500 Weekend

[slorydn1]

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. East northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. South southwest wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. West southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Sunday: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. West southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. West northwest wind between 5 and 15 mph.

Beautiful weekend in store except for the most important day...Sunday. Will have to monitor the situation but its looking like the best time for rain is right in the middle of the 500 time slot, from about 2pm thru 11 pm (of course).

[jslone]

I would rather be down there.we got high winds and crap coming on saturday and sunday we would be lucky to get above 37 degrees.

[colinspooky]

Slowtona? Don't get it. Is this an objection to restrictor plates? Or what? :confused:

[slorydn1]

Slowtona? Don't get it. Is this an objection to restrictor plates? Or what? :confused:

U figured it out perfectly. My little brother Damg75 and myself first came here to MSF in October 2001. In fact my maiden post was the evening of the fall Talladega race. We were going back and forth over the fact that restrictor plate racing was not racing but a parade, etc, etc,etc. It was that week that Damg75 coined the phrase Yawnadega, and I, not to be outdone, came up with Slowtona. It stuck, and for a couple years Just about everyone on the Nascar Board used those names, incliuding our then Moderator Rosie. New people came, old people left, even my little bro got tired (and married) and stopped coming here and the names died. I usually only bring them back for the weather threads.

[slorydn1]

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers after 8am. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. Southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Saturday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Sunday: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Calm wind becoming south southeast between 5 and 10 mph.

Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. West southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north northwest.

[slorydn1]

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Melbourne Fl
200 Pm Est Fri Feb 13 2009

.discussion...

Current...quasi-stationary Cool Frontal Boundary Currently Located
Near Southern Lake Okeechobee Through Grand Bahama Island. In Its
Wake...much Drier Air Has Filtered Down The Peninsula. Dewpoint
Values Have Crashed All The Way Down Into The Upper 30s Across Parts
Of Volusia And Lake Counties Early This Afternoon. Temperatures Have
Rebounded Nicely Back Up Into The 70s With A Couple Of Lower 80s
Over Lake Okeechobee And Martin Counties. Weak High Pressure Exists
Just Off Of The Ga/fl Coast.

Tonight...the Boundary To The South Will Retreat Back Northward This
Evening As A Warm Front. As It Does The Low Level Flow Will Become
Light Southeasterly And Eventually South-southwesterly By Sunrise
Sat Morning. With The Light Winds And Moisture Increasing Again In
The Wake Of The Warm Front Expect Patchy Fog To Develop Overnight
Possibly Becoming Locally Dense Again In Prone Spots...perhaps
Greatest Southward. High Pressure Will Continue To Move Further Into
The Western Atlc Away From The Peninsula With The Approach Of The
Next Weather System Into The Gulf Coast States. We May See Some
Increased Cloudiness From The Northwest Late As This System Moves
Closer And Deep Layer Moisture Creeps Upward. Will Leave
Precipitation Out Of The Forecast As Believe Chances Will Be Too
Remote. Lows Mainly In The Middle/upper 50s With Lower 60s Possible
Near The Space And Treasure Coasts.

Sat...as We Will Be In The Warm Sector After Warm Frontal Passage
From The Previous Night...expect Unseasonably Warm And Mainly Dry
Conditions To Continue. Highs In The Upper 70s To Lower 80s Areawide
With A Middle 80 Degree Reading Or Two Possible South. The
Approaching Cold Frontal Boundary Is Poised To Move Into The Florida
Panhandle By Late In The Day With Greatest Moisture Convergence
Along And Just Ahead Of It. Upper Level Impulses Will Ride Along
This Feature Providing An Additional Focus For Pcpn Across North
Florida. Will See Increased Cloudiness...especially Across The North
As This System Nears East Central Florida. Rain Chances Will
Increase Across Volusia...lake...orange And Seminole Counties
Through The Afternoon...though Will Currently Leave Pops Well Below
What The Gfs Advertises And Will Lean Closer To The Nam Numbers.
Light Early Morning Southerly Winds Will Transition To Southwest
Through Late Morning Into The Afternoon Averaging 10-15 Mph.

A Second Wave Of Low Pressure Will Ride Eastward Along The Qstnry
Frontal Bdry Across The Gulf Coast Sat Night...then Across North Fl
By Late Sun. As This Occurs...broad Troughing Will Form Over The
Ern Conus With Fast Wnw Flow Dvlpg Aloft. This Will Allow The Cold
Front To Push Sewd Through The State On Sun Ngt. Have Kept Low To
Mid Range Chc Pops For A Good Part Of The Cwa...highest Across The
North And Lowest (slgt Chc Most Pds) For The South. Pops Should End
N-s Sun Ngt...with Drier/cooler Air Filtering Into The Cwa To Start
Next Week.

[colinspooky]

erm, right..........

:p

[slorydn1]

This Afternoon: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. Southwest wind around 10 mph.

Tonight: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. West southwest wind around 5 mph.

Sunday: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast.

Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. West northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.


It looks a little better for today, maybe (I wish they'd go to the hurry up and get this race in already) but it doesn't look too good for tommorrow

As of right now there are some spotty showers to the north and west of Daytona, in a line from Gainsville to Palm Coast, but they are falling apart

[slorydn1]

Overnight: Showers likely. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. West wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday: Showers likely. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 67. North wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 52. North northwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Its a little dicey right now. Daytona is currently in the clear, there are some scattered showers moving on shore the west coast of FLA just south of Perry, or almost 150 miles due west of Daytona Beach. If they hold together, it should start raining in the Daytona area between 5-7 AM.
There also seems to be some stronger storms well to the west of that over the Gulf, and the NWS office in Melbourne seems to think they'll hold together to make it across the state. If we're lucky it "MAY" stop raining in Daytona between 3pm-5pm, and if so the track could probably be dried in time to have a Nightime Daytona 500 instead of a Monday 500...fingers and toes are crossed!