Fall Race Climatology at Charlotte Motor Speedway

It’s fall race week in the Charlotte area again. The Dollar General 300 Nationwide series race is Friday evening and the Sprint Cup series Bank Of America 500 is Saturday night. Just like fall football weather the October race is often cool and usually dry. October is one of our drier months of the year in the Carolinas. (Unlike the May race).

Thanks to the folks over at the Southeast Regional Climate Center here’s a look at the past weather highlights from past fall races.

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If you like to check the weather for every Fall race here’s the complete dataset. http://sercc.com/CharlotteNASCARClimatology.pdf

This Years forecast for Saturday night:

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