Rain in Monaco?

[andreag]

First weaher forecast for the weekend predicts 60% rain chance during the GP.

Curiously for Thursday and Saturday sessions the prediction is dry weather, so the teams will not be able of setting up the cars for a wet race.

Are we going to see a new '96 GP?

Link:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/MNXX0001?from=36hr_outlet_business

[Valve Bounce]

First weaher forecast for the weekend predicts 60% rain chance during the GP.

Curiously for Thursday and Saturday sessions the prediction is dry weather, so the teams will not be able of setting up the cars for a wet race.

Are we going to see a new '96 GP?

Link:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/MNXX0001?from=36hr_outlet_business

What's a new '96 GP? :confused:

[ShiftingGears]

A good race :p :

But I doubt it will rain.

[AndyRAC]

1996, an absolute classic race, Panis fastest in warm up. Schuey off at Portier on first lap, Hill blows up while easily in he lead, Frentzen hitting Irvine whilst trying to get past, Panis colliding with Irvine at Loews, etc Panis wins..

[ozrevhead]

Are we going to see a new '96 GP?

Link:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/MNXX0001?from=36hr_outlet_business
a new 2005 would do me :p :D

[DimitraF1]

dream on :P

[ArrowsFA1]

It's 30 years since Riccardo made his F1 debut and I'll be very happy if we see the kind of race that saw his first GP win in 1982 :cool:

Hamilton winning would put the icing on the cake :s mokin:

[andreag]

But I doubt it will rain.
Link, please :p :

Weather forecasts 10 days before the event?

You might as well read tea-leaves.

[andreag]

Weather forecasts 10 days before the event?
Well, that's what they do at the Weather Channel.


You might as well read tea-leaves.
I've tried, but as I don't drink tea, but instant coffee, after dinking it, there's nothing to read.

[kalasend]

I've tried, but as I don't drink tea, but instant coffee, after dinking it, there's nothing to read.

Yes, you can. You just need to stir less and let some precipitate to the bottom. Sip the coffee slowly. Let it dry. You'll see something...

[Allyc85]

lol weather forcasts this far away are useless! Plus theres been so many races in the last few years where rains been forcasts n its never happened!

[futuretiger9]

If we had rain during the race, we could see a chaotic race, and a new winner. Heidfeld, Fisichella and Kubica would be in with a chance and even people like Webber and Kovalainen would fancy their chances of a podium finish. A race similar to 1996 would not be out of the question.

[millencolin]

I pray for rain!

'Webber wins a rainsoaked monaco gp'

yeah i like the sounds of that

[andreag]

8 days to go, and the forecast keeps saying rain.

[Big Ben]

lol weather forcasts this far away are useless! Plus theres been so many races in the last few years where rains been forcasts n its never happened!

that's right! they have problems predicting the weather for the next day... :) )

[Ian McC]

I pray for rain!

'Webber wins a rainsoaked monaco gp'

yeah i like the sounds of that


Bet you didn't get that from the tea leaves :p :

[animrallye]

Hi everybody...
It's the first time I post in this section.
The explaination is in my pseudo and location :p

I'll post everyday the REAL weather in Monte-Carlo till Friday, when I'll fly away from Monaco.
Today is very sunny and hot (25°C at 6 PM GMT+2)
See you tomorrow !

[jens]

I have noticed that they predict rain for most of the Grand Prixs. So make your own conclusions... This of course doesn't rule out that once comes a day, when it really rains. :p :

[animrallye]

Hi
Misty today on Monaco... 25°C
here's a link to a Webcam on the harbour : http://notari.tv/

[ShiftingGears]

Thanks!

[Ian McC]

Well if it rains at least the whole of the race will be interesting, instead of just the start.

[ArrowsFA1]

Looks lovely there today :cool:

[ioan]

The chances to predict the weather for next Sunday will be realistic only starting with 72 hours before, and that will only give a general idea about what it will be like.

[raikk]

If it rains there will probally be only 6-11 cars that finish! its hard to drive in the wet.. It's even harder to drive in the wet in Monaco! and I'm sure some teams would take gambles with the dry compounds as it starts to clear..

[andreag]

Five days to go, and the forecasts keep sayng it will rain.

Right now the raining period is saturday 'till monday:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/MNXX0001?from=36hr_outlet_business

And the more accurate forecast for the weekend:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/weekend/MNXX0001?from=tenDay_topnav_business

And focusing on Sunday:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxdetail/MNXX0001?dayNum=5&from=weekend

[animrallye]

Sunny weather this morning on Monaco...
26°C at 10 AM CET.
Local forecast : Sunny till Thursday (25°C), few rain on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday : Sunny + some clouds, no wind, may be light rain (probablility : 35&#37 ;) , 22°C.

[ArrowsFA1]

Autosport's forecast says thunderstorms every day except Saturday when there will be showers. They say Sunday will just be cloudy :dozey:

[pino]

Wheather there can change within few hours, so don't trust any forecast but people who lives there ;)

[Valve Bounce]

Well, I hope it doesn't snow. By the way, has there ever been an F1 race anywhere when it snowed at the track? I know there's been hail.

[ShiftingGears]

Nope! Would be a sight though :p :

[ozrevhead]

Ive seen some of the rallies that are snow covered but no F1

[andreag]

By the way, has there ever been an F1 race anywhere when it snowed at the track? I know there's been hail.
Surely not Bahrain.

[N. Jones]

As of today (Wednesday the 23rd):
Sunday's weather in Monaco:
bbc says - cloudy but no rain, 23c...
weatheronline.co.uk says - cloudy, no rain, 22c
wunderground.com says - overcast, no rain, 20c
accuweather.com says - morning showers and a thunderstorm, otherwise mostly cloudy, 22c.

All but the BBC say that it is going to rain on Saturday.

[RaikkonenRules]

Let there be rain :D

[Priorat]

Well, I hope it doesn't snow. By the way, has there ever been an F1 race anywhere when it snowed at the track? I know there's been hail.

There was a little snow during a test sesion in the Circuit the Catalunya two years ago but they stopped it because they didn't have enough studded tyres

[animrallye]

Very hot this morning for the first two F1 practice session and GP2, Porsche Supercup and Formula Renault 3.5 which are now on track.

At 8:30 CET (GMT +2) : Sunny with heat haze, air temp. 25°C, 30°C under the sun.

Webcam : http://notari.tv/

[F1boat]

I hope for a wet race and victory for David Coulthard.

[animrallye]

30°C + for the start of F1 first practice session !
(35°C under the sun)

[pino]

Thanks for your info animrallye ;)

[andreag]

Getting closer, now there are hourly forecasts also:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/hourbyhour/MNXX0001?begHour=3&begDay=146

Saturday training and qualifying will be wet.

That's good as I'm pretty sure it will rain during the race, so teams can get wet setups. Qualification will be also interesting as drivers have to reach their cars limits; if they go further, they'll be out; if they keep short, they'll get a bad starting place.

Today, with a nice, dry and sunny weather, we had 4 crashes; so imagine what's gonna be on Saturday.

By the way; even formula1.com announced big chances for a wet qualification and a wet race.

And I'm sorry, Pino; I don't live there, but forecasts have been constant about big chances of rain for Sunday for the last 7 days (when I started this thread). Now we're only three days before the race, and chances keep the same.

[animrallye]

My pleasure Pino ;)

Tomorrow I'll give you the last local weather forecast before a trip away from Monte-Carlo, till Monday.
I'll be tomorrow morning on the track to see GP2 and Porsche Qualifying sessions, taking some pictures.
If someone interested... PM me !

x andreag : As pino write few days ago, here weather can change very quickly. So, forecasts may be completly wrong. They announced rain for tomorrow, I can be wrong, but when i see the conditions at 7:20 PM CET here, no clouds and no wind, I think (and hope :p : ) they're wrong.

[andreag]

They announced rain for tomorrow...
The forecasts I've been posting announced rain for Sunday, and more recently for Saturday too; but Friday has been always announced as warm and dry. Maybe local forecasts talked about rain on Friday, but not the ones I posted.

You can see here it will be sunny in the morning, with some clouds in the afternoon, but no rain:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/hourbyhour/MNXX0001?begHour=3&begDay=145

Weather forecast is not what you see on TV. Of course it can change, but when it keep saying the same day after day (as now, when they said it will be a rainy sunday since 7 days ago), the chances they're right are clearly high.

[animrallye]

Here are last updated forecast from Nice Airport (18 km from MC)
http://www.cote.azur.fr/meteo_lang_en.htm?ville=605http://www.cote.azur.fr/meteo.htm?ville=605
You can see forecast about rain tomorrow as been changed so...

[pino]

Weather forecast is not what you see on TV. Of course it can change, but when it keep saying the same day after day (as now, when they said it will be a rainy sunday since 7 days ago), the chances they're right are clearly high.

It won't be raining (juring the race) ;) I don't live there , but I was born not very far from there :D

[Valve Bounce]

The above are mere forcasts. Are any Radar weather networks available, say like this one: http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/radar/
For instance, if you click on the link and then click on Cairns you get the current status. Then if you click on loop, you actually get the direction the rain is moving.

[andreag]

Of course there are radar animated images:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/map/MNXX0001?name=index_large_animated&day=1

But those images only cover 12 hours; in order to know how the weather is gonna be, you have to understand what's behind those images. I mean high and low pressure areas, fronts, and so.

I've taken the last of the radar images available this evening (8.27 pm), and I've drawn the two low pressure areas arriving to Europe (both in blue with an "L" inside); I marked also the front crossing Ireland and Northen England (in orange), a front like this means rain, and if the low pressure areas are deep enough, it means a lot of rain. I've marked also a smaller front wich is over the Canary Islands right now (I surrounded it in red); as this front is asociated to a low pressure area (which moves anticlockwise), the front will enter Europe from the south (warmer), getting colder over the mediterranean, and unloading all its condensated water as it arrives to solid ground (the coast).

In any other circunstances this last front would contact Europe again in a line coming from Tunicia to Palermo to Naples to former Jugoslavia; but the low pressure area over Iceland will move slowly, and consequently, the second low pressure area, the one centered over the Cantabric sea will slow enough to make this front enter Europe in a more West point.

As both fronts are gonna meet, the result will be a week of rain over central Europe, starting from the Cote D'azur (saturday and sunday) and moving north to Switzerland (sunday and monday), Germany (monday and tuesday), the Nederlands (tuesday and wednesday), where it will turn anticlockwise to the south to northern France (wednesday and thursday), and central-east France and western Germany (thursday and friday).

Here's the map:

http://www.profacil.net/F1/Rain.jpg

Of course it doesn't guarantee rain all day, but the ground temperatures are high enough for showers (if you go out to buy the newspaper and it's not raining, don't worry, but if you're gonna spend the evening out, you better take the umbrella).

Unfortunately this rain hace the same path and schedule than my quick trip (Sunday, Genoa; Monday, Luzern; Tuesday Amsterdam; Wednesday and Thusday, Paris; and Friday Barcelona); that's why I'm so concerned about weather on this week (my first week off in 8 years, and my only week off for this entire year).

Apart, I would like a wet race on Monaco, although I don't think I can watch the race, as I'll be driving around this area at the same time. But if it rains, it worths to record it to watch it even one week later.

[René]

Another page where you can have look at the infrared satellite weather map !

http://www.intellicast.com/Global/Satellite/Infrared.aspx?location=PLXX0055&animate=true&enlarge=true

[Eyo]

it isn't going to be a sunny race that's almost 100%. Some says rain some says cloudy, but no one says dry and sunny. So, it's a good chance to see some water on the track

[leopard]

wet race?...la' :)

[leopard]

I think Alonso, the two Macs have that agility at Monaco

[Valve Bounce]

wet race?...la' :)

Can, la!! I thank all those who have supplied us with the radar maps, as I am going to bookmark them for future reference. The will be extremely interesting a couple of hours before quals or the race itself. Many thanks.

[donKey jote]

Looking good... (spot the storms :p : )
http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/meteosat.cgi?speed=4&count=48&intervall=60&refresh=10&playmode=Endlos

go Panis :D

[ioan]

Isolated thunderstorms tomorrow at 14H:

http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/mameteo/prevDept.jsp?LIEUID=DEPT06

http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/mameteo/prevVille.jsp?LIEUID=MONACO

[Valve Bounce]

Isolated thunderstorms tomorrow at 14H:

http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/mameteo/prevDept.jsp?LIEUID=DEPT06

http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/mameteo/prevVille.jsp?LIEUID=MONACO

ioan, you know that tomorrow never comes. :p :
We had one pub out west which advertised free beer tomorrow.

[Big Ben]

According to the F1 official site the track is wet for the practice session... if only it would rain a bit for the quals as well

[pino]

It's raining a bit right now, but won't last ;)

[ioan]

ioan, you know that tomorrow never comes. :p :
We had one pub out west which advertised free beer tomorrow.

Good one! :D :up:
I'll have to bookmark it! ;)

[ioan]

There is a chance for rain Sunday, 27th May, around 14H:

http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/mameteo/prevVille.jsp;jsessionid=1B91F17A1BD05663F798CC4E2 4038051.0EE1179217A143?LIEUID=MONACO

But honestly I doubt it will happen, it would be just too good and to much of a chance for the unlucky Kimi.

[andreag]

There is a chance for rain Sunday, 27th May, around 14H:
Great; nine days after I started this thread saying the same, someone agrees.


...a chance for the unlucky Kimi.
Do you really think it's a matter of bad luck?

He had bad luck in McLaren, and that's the reason of so many retirements; now he's not in McLaren and none of the two drivers had to retire in four races.

Ferrari had a very reliable car in the last months (except in Suzuka); now the problems are coming by some weak suspensions, but only in Kimi's car.

I'm more convinced every day that Kimi, as Button, will never be World Champion.

[ioan]

Ferrari had a very reliable car in the last months (except in Suzuka); now the problems are coming by some weak suspensions, but only in Kimi's car.

In all reality only a tank could have fared better after running into the armco.

[Big Ben]

About rain in Monaco for tomorrow... no thanks! Hopefully I'll see a boring race like always

[Kevincal]

http://www.weather.com says with high %, light rain all night through tomorrow morning and at 1 pm Sunday, they show 80% chance light rain! :D Then the % drops off slightly past 1 pm until 5 pm where they show it will become sunny! :P

[DimitraF1]

lollll they don't know their job

[F1boat]

Dry weather in the Porshe Supercup race.

[jens]

Rain or not, but I hope that one of the weaker teams will punish the new safety car rule. If most of the drivers come in under SC situation, then Toyotas, Spykers, Aguris or STRs stay out (having put in maximum fuel load at the start) and take top positions. Then their #2 driver will start blocking (lapping more than 5 secs slower than normal!) to allow #1 to stay ahead of the bunch after pitstop and score good points if not even a win. :p :

You need luck and a few coincidences, but it is possible for a poor car to win the Monaco Grand Prix. :p :

[F1boat]

Rain will make the race far more interesting. If it is dry, the McLaren will score a 1-2 result, unless something dramatic happens.
If there is a wet race, there will be much more drama. But so far it seems that it'll be dry.

[ioan]

Thunderstorms are still predicted by Meteo France.

[raceafi Jr.MS]

Pino, the Mod man/Pizza man/ Weather man strikes again.

:)

[race aficionado]

Pino, the Mod man/Pizza man/ Weather man strikes again.

:)

What he ^^^^^^^ said.


:s mokin:

[Daika]

It rained at the French open, was hoping it was the other way around. Boring race.

[leopard]

Can, la!! I thank all those who have supplied us with the radar maps, as I am going to bookmark them for future reference. The will be extremely interesting a couple of hours before quals or the race itself. Many thanks.
Lol, I am sure you translate my word wrongly, Valve.
I respond to his post in his language about la' that means No way, while in common English it means its opposite e.g lha (well, yes, of course).

And anyway my prediction was right about dry race :laugh:

[Valve Bounce]

Lol, I am sure you translate my word wrongly, Valve.
I respond to his post in his language about la' that means No way, while in common English it means its opposite e.g lha (well, yes, of course).

And anyway my prediction was right about dry race :laugh:


Just testing la!! :p :