Expo Time

The Expo has already started so Marathon Weekend has officially arrived. Here's an interesting article about Shalane Flanagan running her first half-marathon Sunday.

The forecast for rain on the coast were right. I have almost 3¼ inches in the rain gauge. It looks like we'll see a cool Sunday morning with the sun warming things up during the race and little problems from the wind. There's not much on today's NWS discussion:

FORCING FROM THE UPPER LOW OVER NORTHERN MEXICO SHOULD KEEP PERIODS OF LIGHT RAIN GOING THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY. RAIN SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST ON SATURDAY. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO TEXAS SUNDAY AND MONDAY AND SHIFT EAST ON TUESDAY. FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK LOOKS NICE WITH TEMPS A BIT WARMER THAN NORMAL.

Here's the NWS hourly projection for Marathon Sunday. The NWS projects 40°F at the start and 51°F at 10AM, with the dewpoint in the upper 30s to 40. Not much of a change from yesterday; still very nice for running. They have a NW wind at 3 mph to a WNW wind at 5 mph and partly cloudy with sky cover at 15% to 20%.


The 84-hour model now includes marathon morning. This model follows right along with the NWS hourly projection [the graph is in UTC, six hours ahead of Houston]. The text version of the short range models are available now. They show temperatures a little warmer and winds from the northwest.




The Weather Channel now has hourly details for Marathon Sunday. They show:

7 am
Clear, 42°F feels like 40°F, 0% chance of rain, winds from WNW at 4 mph
sunrise Sunrise 7:17 am
8 am
Sunny, 44°F feels like 42°F, 0% chance of rain, winds from WNW at 4 mph
9 am
Sunny, 47°F feels like 45°F, 0% chance of rain, winds from W at 4 mph
10 am
Sunny, 51°F feels like 50°F, 0% chance of rain, winds from W at 4 mph


AccuWeather now has hourly details for marathon morning. They predict a little warmer conditions:

Sunday, Jan 17
7AM
43°F, RealFeel® 45°F, Dewpoint 41°F
Winds WNW at 2 mph
Partly sunny
8AM
45°F, RealFeel® 47°F, Dewpoint 39°F
Winds W at 3 mph
Partly sunny
9AM
50°F, RealFeel® 54°F, Dewpoint 41°F
Winds WSW at 4 mph
Partly sunny
10AM
54°F, RealFeel® 59°F, Dewpoint 41°F
Winds WSW at 5 mph
Partly sunny
11AM
56°F, RealFeel® 61°F, Dewpoint 40°F
Winds WSW at 6 mph
Partly sunny