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absolutely lashing down at the moment.
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Ta mmg. If you live locally keep the updates coming over the next couple of weeks. Rains obviously important but sunny and or windy drying days are good to know about too.
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14 day forecast indicates rain fall almost every day.
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Noticed that. 5 days are usually pretty good nowadays but anything over and your in Michael Fish land. Still it may make a difference to Notre Peres connections.
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nice & sunny today. No wind.
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Nice and Sunny again today
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JUST WHAT WE NEED !. :(
Rail strike could cause Aintree traffic chaos By Jon Lees 7:44AM 28 MAR 2010 AINTREE officials are in discussions with local transport chiefs to produce a contingency plan to avert widespread travel disruption during the John Smith's Grand National meeting in the event of a national rail strike. The RMT rail union has called a four-day strike next month, the last two days of which coincide with the first two of the Grand National fixture, which includes the popular ladies' day. Heavy traffic congestion is likely if the strike is not averted. No services are expected to run from London to Liverpool, and locally it will hit Merseyrail services running from central Liverpool to the station outside Aintree racecourse. A notice on the Aintree website states: "We'd like to reassure any racegoers who plan to travel by train to Aintree for the first two days of the John Smith's Grand National Meeting (April 8-9) that we are currently working with local transport providers to plan replacement local services if a National Rail Strike does go ahead - however, please keep checking back to this page for updates and the latest information." The racecourse's PR manager Emma Owen said: "Since we got notification of the strike at the end of last week, we've been in touch with Mersey Travel to take care of arrangements locally. I know a contingency plan is being worked on to make sure there is as little disruption as possible, but nationally it may cause problems." |
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Looks really wet all week, including Friday. Could be heavy by the end of the week and even with a dry spell its hard to see it being good. Bit more rain during next weekend and early next week and it will definitely be a test. Time to back the mudlarks.
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Just done a 10 day weather forecast and it indicates that whilst the next 7 days will be wet, we could get a dry spell just before the racing kicks off. Let's hope so - the last thing racing needs is a repeat of the Red Marauder farce of 2001.
http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Liverpool-UKXX0083 |
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there's been persistent rain since at least 6.30 this morning, with no sign of it letting up.
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SNOW ON THE WAY
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Rain has stopped now
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benjy - I don't reckon that pause in the rain lasted very long. I was in north Liverpool this morning and it rained from 06.30, in central Liverpool from 8 till 6 and it didn't stop, then back in north Liverpool from about 7 pm. The rain stopped about 9 pm but the ground (albeit local park common land) is absolutely sodden.
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Nah it didn't. Wasn't heavy rain but it was consistent.
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any idea what the going is at the moment?
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firm .....lol lol lol
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constant light rain rain from about 7 am, getting heavier now. There's an awful lot of water fallen in the last 24 hours.
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still raining
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thecrowngreenbowler-I'm a bowler too ;-)
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dried up now.
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AINTREE clerk of the course Andrew Tulloch is predicting "lovely jumping ground" for the three-day John Smith's Grand National meeting, which begins on Thursday week.
His confidence comes despite forecasters expecting the Merseyside area to see plenty of rain before the action starts. RELATED LINKS * » Grand National betting * » Grand National card A Met Office spokeswoman said: "The early signs for Aintree are for the weather to remain changeable, but perhaps not quite as wet as we have had over recent days. "There will be some showers, but I think we will be looking at good sunny spells between the showers. "Temperatures will be near or perhaps a little above average, but there is quite a lot of rain to come." Tulloch admitted the severe winter had hampered grass growth, but he was otherwise upbeat before going out for his daily check on underfoot conditions on Monday afternoon. "I think we could get quite a lot of rain this week and we will be keeping an eye on things, but the structure of the soil makes it free-draining," he said. "If we had three or four dry days it would go through quite quickly. "The National course is a mixture of soft and good to soft, and the Mildmay and hurdle courses are mostly good to soft. |
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From the RP :
Tulloch admitted the severe winter had hampered grass growth, but he was otherwise upbeat before going out for his daily check on underfoot conditions on Monday afternoon. "I think we could get quite a lot of rain this week and we will be keeping an eye on things, but the structure of the soil makes it free-draining," he said. "If we had three or four dry days it would go through quite quickly. "The National course is a mixture of soft and good to soft, and the Mildmay and hurdle courses are mostly good to soft. "It is lovely jumping ground. I'm very grateful we saved the inside ground on the National course and didn't race on it at the Becher meeting, because that's fresh ground from last April" |
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with that kind of soil structure and the forcast dry days they will probably start watering tomorrow imo ...innit
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Gushing down
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few miles from course .......torrential rain
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Talking up prospects to boost entries imo. Grand National course doesn't dry up nearly as fast as the Mildmay and it must be odds on soft or heavy now. Was given as soft g/s places yesterday so probably bordering on heavy by now and hardly a forecast that makes you think it's going to dry out much.
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Softish ground looking more and more likely. I'm not far away and its been lashing down all night. Plenty more to come as well.
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Chucked down all day yesterday and today has started no different. This will be soft ground. Its going to be a mudbath after 2 days of racing beforehand.
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Very wet today-was even some snow last night which has melted away now.
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rain rain rain
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any news on the weather boys?
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persistant rain all day, damp conditions all round.
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mixture of sleet and rain duing day,brightened up a bit now but more damp weather forecast for the rest of the week
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The going is in boys. What a mess! 3.8!
Course Aintree (Grand National) Next Race Thursday 8th April Report Date Wednesday 31st March; 18:30 Going Soft (Heavy in places) GoingStick 3.8 |
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http://www.turftrax.co.uk/going_maps.html
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11mm overnight.
Thursday showers with sunny spells. Friday/Saturday breezy with sunny spells and showers, some of which may be heavy. Monday rain from late morning. Tuesday onwards brighter spells, remaining unsettled. Temp warming up 14 degrees |
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Any chance this could be off??
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whats the best the ground could be on the day iyo reefer?
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Soft ground looks guaranteed. Rain Monday night looks bad and a few showers to topit up in the week. Soft at best i'd say.
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Will be good to soft by Saturday ;)
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