Monday Forecast for Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama

By Scott Martin.

First of all, I want to start off this week's forecast with an apology to you, our blog readers. If you noticed, blog entries for the past event were down from the normal output from what Doug and myself put out. Long Beach was my responsibility, and I failed in keeping the latest info updated on the blog. For that, I am truly sorry. Now I can go on and rattle off a bunch of reasons why, but it does no good in the end. Now, with that being said, here is the first look forecast for my home race, the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.

There will be an upper-level low making its way across the plains and will be close enough to affect the weather here in the deep south. Thursday will start off mostly cloudy, with showers and thunderstorms moving into the area during the late afternoon and early evening timeframe. The rain will persist until early Friday morning, when the low being forced off to the east by an approaching upper-level trough that will be off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. After that, skies will become partly cloudy by the late afternoon, and clear out for the remainder of the weekend. Temperatures will be warm for the events, as highs will reach the upper 70s to the lower 80s throughout the weekend. Sunday we might even flirt with the mid 80s.

Since rain will be involved this week, I will have radar for the track operating on the site (RacecastWeather.com), along with updates each day on our blog. I will also have updates on all of our social media feeds (located on the right of the page).

This is such an exciting time for myself. I get to see friends from the previous years' events, and get to make new ones this year. Both Doug and myself will be attending the race again this year. So if you see us there, please be sure to stop us and talk. Have a great week.