Watkins Glen weather

[HoneyBadger]

Well, get those TIVOs or VHS recorders (if you still have one) ready again because the forecast for tomorrow in Watkins Glen looks like a washout.

 

[TexasRaceLady]

And Monday doesn't look all that great, either.

 

[BobbyFord]

Unbelievable, but not overly surprising...

 

[Magnethead]

Unbelievable, but not overly surprising...

its new york....

 

[Newracefan]

Nascar can find rain in the desert of course they'll find it in New York. This is really starting to get old

 

[HoneyBadger]

And Monday doesn't look all that great, either.

Neither does Tuesday.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...GM&textField1=42.3804&textField2=-76.8707&e=0

 

[HoneyBadger]

Big line of storms just three hours out.

 

[Newracefan]

Big line of storms just three hours out.

Stop please stop I am so tired of rain causing havoc with my Sunday plans

 

[HoneyBadger]

Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Watkins Glen until 7pm EST.

Rain, an hour away.

 

[Betsy]

Looks like

Severe storms hitting about 2:30.. From observing the radar of that area it'll be maybe an hour of hard rain? Then clearing and maybe finishing the race?
Betsy

 

[BobbyFord]

I just saw Jimmie riding around in the back of a driver introduction truck on a dry track.

 

[Curves]

They are talking dark skies on the radios.

 

[Magnethead]

you can see the rain

 

[SST55]

Lightning on the horizen.

Just cancelled starting engines.

 

[Curves]

going to be a long afternoon for all of us....

 

[BobbyFord]

going to be a long afternoon for all of us....

Or not. I'm jumping on the Harley and heading for the beach...

 

[Magnethead]

my audio/video sync is WAY off...

 

[HUTfan]

The little inaccurate future radar thing on Weather.com doesn't show the rain moving out until 4:30-5.

 

[ajk112802]

I just got home. Any word on when they race may start?
May I suggest flipping to Versus and watching IndyCar racing until the rain moves through?

 

[HoneyBadger]

I just got home. Any word on when they race may start?
May I suggest flipping to Versus and watching IndyCar racing until the rain moves through?

Just in time to watch Mike Conway make an idiot move and wreck Danica Patrick. He makes the ass move, she ends up out of the race and he ends up driving away.

 

[muggle not]

Patience all, they will race and a good one it will be.

 

[ajk112802]

Why won't NASCAR race in the rain on road courses like open wheel cars do?

 

[Magnethead]

Why won't NASCAR race in the rain on road courses like open wheel cars do?

nationwide does. COT, they claim, weighs too much and has too high of a CoG, and would load the tires too much.

 

[ajk112802]

thank you....given the number of rain delays this year, perhaps they should work on that in the off season

 

[HoneyBadger]

From John Daly via Twitter:

TheDalyPlanet If I get one more emails asking why the rain fill on ESPN is better than the live racing coverage I'm gonna.....

 

[HoneyBadger]

NASCAR needs to move the starting times up. If they would've stated at 1pm, they might've made it halfway before the rain came.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Monday, 12pm EST.