24 Hours of Booty Ride Forecast
Things are looking pretty good for the annual ride through Myers Park.
Temperatures will be warming up Saturday afternoon, but rain chances remain small and dew points will be pretty nice for late July. The humidity levels will be decreasing most of Friday and into Friday night making for good riding which will last into Saturday. Winds will be swinging around to the Northwest late Friday and then back to the Southwest late Saturday. Here is where you might run into head winds on the course.
Friday night as you can see headwinds likely Friday night along the western part of the loop, but the wind speeds here will ne about 3-6 mph from the northwest. Good thing this is mostly downhill which will offset the pedaling need to battle the headwinds.
Saturday the winds will be swinging around to the southwest so headwinds will hit you in the eastern part of the course and the wind speed will increase with daytime heating to around 10-15 mph.
Temperatures will be seasonally cool Friday night through Saturday morning. Late Saturday temperature will approach 90 degrees with sunshine so hydration will be a concern for all the day time riders Saturday.
Here’s an hour by hour forecast of course conditions graphed out.
Summary:
Conditions should be ideal for this time of year will a nice Friday night through Saturday morning, rain free and a tad cool for this time of the year. Saturday the heat builds along with some humidity so the afternoon through evening riding Saturday will be the warmest along with the biggest headwinds. Unlike years past thunderstorms chances are much lower and the only threat from storms will come Saturday late afternoon and evening around 30%.
Forecast
Friday night partly clear low near 66
Saturday partly sunny with a 30% chance for storms highs around 90.
I’ll keep updating for the forecast for riders during the week via Twitter.
Good Riding!
Brad Panovich
Chef Meteorologist
WCNC-NBC TV
Charlotte, NC
