2024 Advance Going Report

[The hill]

Yeah it's been pissing down the last 2 hours by the course

[Eggs]

…..Aintree weather watch, Friday;

Very wet overnight, one downpour at 01.30 was particularly heavy pounding against the windows. Not raining at the moment but a grey morning. I wonder if the Mildmay course will join the National course in having ‘heavy’ in its description.

[Glasgow Ronnie]

With all this rain is there a chance the meeting could get abandoned or does Aintree have a good drainage system?

[Faugheen_Machine]

If reports on their website are correct, only 1.6mm fell since midnight so looks like they were OK and escaped the worst of the weather again. That, or the aintree met station is knackered.

I don't think the meeting will be at any risk.

[Oneman94]

With all this rain is there a chance the meeting could get abandoned or does Aintree have a good drainage system?

If it went ahead in 2018, then this year's meeting isn't at risk.

[Eggs]

…..Aintree weather watch, Friday;

Very wet overnight, one downpour at 01.30 was particularly heavy pounding against the windows. Not raining at the moment but a grey morning. I wonder if the Mildmay course will join the National course in having ‘heavy’ in its description.

….been threatening to rain all morning but it’s stayed dry so far. Forecast isn’t too bad for the rest of the day but might have a few hours rain during the night.

Storm Kathleen maybe hitting the area, strong winds will help if the rain blows through.

[Glasgow Ronnie]

If it went ahead in 2018, then this year's meeting isn't at risk.

Good point, cheers mate

[Eggs]

…Aintree weather watch; Saturday;

Doesn’t appear to have been much rain overnight, currently dry and breezy. Storm Kathleen supposed to be hitting the NW today with strong winds and decent temperatures, much will depend on if she deposits any rain.

[Kotkijet]

I absolutely love this thread

[Eggs]

…Aintree weather watch; Saturday;

Doesn’t appear to have been much rain overnight, currently dry and breezy. Storm Kathleen supposed to be hitting the NW today with strong winds and decent temperatures, much will depend on if she deposits any rain.

….been bright and breezy most of this morning. Increasingly windy, nice blue skies at the moment.

[Aff The Bridle]

Thanks for the daily updates Eggs, really appreciated.

[Eggs]

Thanks for the daily updates Eggs, really appreciated.

….you’re welcome.

Lovely bright and breezy day today and relatively mild. Getting a little overcast now, still breezy and fingers crossed we don’t get a shower.

[Eggs]

….Aintree weather update, Sunday;

After a glorious sunny and breezy drying day on Saturday, the rain arrived again last night and there’s been some really heavy showers overnight including one in the last hour. It’s currently wet on the ground (07.00am) but bits of blue in the sky.

[twig78]

I've honestly woken up this morning and the first thing I thought about was this thread. Keep it up Eggs

[Eggs]

I've honestly woken up this morning and the first thing I thought about was this thread. Keep it up Eggs

….ha, ha. Turned into a very bright, dry and breezy morning after the overnight downpours. Feels a bit like one step forward, two steps backward, official going will be of interest.

Edit; official going as at 09.00am this morning is Soft on Mildmay; Soft, Heavy in places on the GN course. For those that don’t know, the Mildmay is fairly flat but the National course drops down to the Canal Turn area before rising gradually heading home.

Unsurprisingly, it looks like the area at the bottom of the course is where it’s heavy.