There doesn?t seem to be much of a change over the last 3 days from view shown? I hope it?s better than what we are seeing..
I'm not sure if it's true that there is no improvement. Look at the 24hr period when things went from decent conditions, to terrible for cars racing of any sort, unless you have m+s rally tyres. For example, take a look at the video for mid afternoon, say 2023-08-02 15:00 or a little later.
https://meso1.chpc.utah.edu/station_cameras/archive/bflat_cam/bflat_cam_20230802.mov
Then look at a video from around the same time of day on 2023-08-05 (https://meso1.chpc.utah.edu/station_cameras/archive/bflat_cam/bflat_cam_20230805.mov). The surface does seem to be improving, but perhaps not fast enough for racing before the end of the week. But I'm not familiar with the local climate at Bonneville. Maybe after most of the standing water has gone, it can dry out much faster in a few days.
If you check the camera 10 or more times a day like I do, you'll see LOTS of change.
Time-lapse shows hardly any improvement. Oh well, W.O.S. is a good backup.
Looks a lot better this morning.
Does anyone have the link to the camera at lands end ?
There's an article about it but no link.
https://meso1.chpc.utah.edu/station_cameras/bflat_cam/bflat_cam_current.jpg
Click the link for the last photo taken.
That one isn't it. This one is on lands end.
Edit:::::::: found it. https://chronolog.io/site/BSF101
That is a great view. I never knew of that one. It is a view of part of the race area or at least pointed in that direction. It will be interesting to keep tabs from that area of the salt.
Here's a morning pic across the week. I finally threw in the towel on Saturday, and of course things looked better Sun morning... Best of luck to everybody, go fast.
Quote from: WZ JUNK on August 07, 2023, 05:50:34 AM
That is a great view. I never knew of that one. It is a view of part of the race area or at least pointed in that direction. It will be interesting to keep tabs from that area of the salt.
Maybe Slim can put it on the home page below the other one.
😉😉
Finally looking decent at lands end again, just looking at the camera anyways. Bit of rain coming in the next couple days. Hoping the best for the next couple events.............
Water on the salt boy can things change quickly. When we arrived in Wendover after our 4 day journey West the first thing we always do is head to lands end and see how things look. We arrive on Tuesday giving us plenty of time to be ready for the salt to open on Thursday for pit set up. At lands end the salt was dry. The the zero marker for Long Coarse was set up just into the salt a short walk from lands end it was dry and dam it sure looked good.
Then the rain came Wednesday leaving behind deep water at Lands end. Using binoculars it was easy to see many miles out water was coving the salt in the direction of the pits. Of course that Zero marker for long coarse was also now in water. So much for our plans of running long.
Monday when we were allowed to set up our pit space we drove threw a lot of deep water looking for a dry surface which we actually found across from what was once the long coarse at the mile 4 marker. This area was a bit like wet mud but not in water. We set up our pit and hoped a combo coarse could be ready for runs on Tuesday our car was inspected and gassed up were ready to run.
Monday evening the winds kicked up and that we hoped was good sign. Tuesday morning we head to the salt and now at lands end the water was much lower boy things were looking up or at least we thought so. When we arrived at our pit it was now covered with water! The winds just moved the water around. Learned something that day. A ton of effort was put forth by the SCTA workers so that a short coarse was ready for runs on Tuesday. Sadly for us we needed 4 miles for what we had hoped for it was now time to head home. Looking forward to next year with fingers crossed.
I wrote all of the above for one reason if there's any water on the surface and its looking like things might be good beware of the winds.
Ronnieroadster
There's a big nasty swirly thing that lost it's way & is coming up the west coast, not something we want to see.
Sid.
NWS forecast is not encouraging.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 64. South wind 9 to 15 mph becoming west northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Sunday
Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Steady temperature around 65. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Sunday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a low around 64. South wind 8 to 14 mph becoming north in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Monday
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Breezy, with a southeast wind 17 to 22 mph increasing to 23 to 28 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Breezy.
Hmmmm................Looks like two cones out there now one normal and one upside down :x
During the local news this morning. They said speedweek was canceled. Umm a bit late fox 13. 😆
The view this morning is fantastic, unless you want to race.
Andy
Based on Boots-on-the-Ground report from today in early PM............1-2 inches of water at the end of the road diminishing to 1/4-inch at 20-yards. Lots of ruts and pot-holes from recent event traffic :-( Windy conditions for a few days should help dry things.........The BMST will have things ready for us :-) :-) :-) :-)
BMST is now cancelled.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-great-salt-lake-is-shrinking-rapidly-and-utah-has-failed-to-stop-it-a-new-lawsuit-says/ar-AA1gkOWp?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=492676d20b6d4c54b236ce0dc2556f77&ei=11