By Scott Martin.
Today and Thursday out at Sebring will be days that you will need to be weather aware at the track as Hurricane Eta finally will start to approach the west coast of Florida tonight, make landfall by early Thursday, and the center moving off of the east coast and over the Atlantic by Thursday evening. Those outer rainbands will keep the area wet at times through Thursday night with the potential for wind gusts reaching 40-50 MPH, especially later this afternoon through sunrise on Thursday morning.
There will also be a risk of a few quick spin-up, tropical-type, tornadoes as Eta begins to move closer and eventually on-land. The Storm Prediction Center has Sebring in a level 2 Slight Risk for severe storms due to the threat of those tornadoes along with potentially damaging winds. This risk goes from now until 7:00 am EST. A Flash Flood Watch is also in effect from now until 1:00 am EST Friday.
The good news is nearly all of the activity will be out of the area for Friday and Saturday with only a small chance of a few scattered showers (30%) for Friday. Skies will be mainly sunny for Saturday and mostly clear going into the late-night hours on Saturday night.
I'll have radar up and running this morning for Sebring. Stay weather aware today and during the early morning hours on Thursday. Once Thursday night gets here, we can relax and get into race mode.
The good news is nearly all of the activity will be out of the area for Friday and Saturday with only a small chance of a few scattered showers (30%) for Friday. Skies will be mainly sunny for Saturday and mostly clear going into the late-night hours on Saturday night.
I'll have radar up and running this morning for Sebring. Stay weather aware today and during the early morning hours on Thursday. Once Thursday night gets here, we can relax and get into race mode.
