The 92nd Running of the Indianapolis 500 – Qualifying Weekend 1 Forecast
Good news and bad news. The 2-Day forecast for Saturday looks pretty similar to yesterday, which is the good news. The bad news is that the 3-Day forecast for Sunday looks the same as yesterday. Model guidance still varies fairly significantly on temperature. One thing to consider, though, is that the speedway is a whole lot of concrete, so the temperatures should be a few degrees warmer than if it were a farm, for example. I also tend to have a bit of a cold bias in my temperature forecasts, so I’m going to bump my Saturday temperature up a few degrees.
Sunday doesn’t look promising. It looks like there will be a pretty good soaking going on until at least the early afternoon. Even if it does clear up, though, you’ll probably hear the most dreaded words in Indianapolis: Weepers in Turn 3. A few late afternoon attempts may be a slight possibility, but I don’t know at this point if they’d be able to fairly fill up the second eleven.
Thus, the official iiMy forecast!
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Saturday
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Sunday
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Approx. Green Flag Time
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12:00 EDT
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12:00 EDT
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Temperature
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68ºF
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55ºF
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Dew Point
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45ºF
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52ºF
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Relative Humidity
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44%
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90%
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Winds
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Easterly at 10 mph
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Southeasterly at 10 mph
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Chance of Rain
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0%
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70%
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Will We Qualify?
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Yes
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Maybe a few, if we’re lucky
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May 9th, 2008 at 8:12 am
What happens if a day of qualifying is rained out? Do they move it to a practice day, wait for the next session, assign qualifiers from the previous day or what?
May 9th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Eh don’t bother I looked it up on wikipedia.