Odd showers to dampen southern England as over 100,000 gather for Glorious Goodwood next week

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist

July 22,2016; 10:44PM,EDT

 

 

The more than 100,000 people expected to attend the annual Glorious Goodwood festival next week will want to keep a brolly handy.
Considered to be the sporting and social highlight of the horse flat-racing season, Glorious Goodwood will feature five days of horse racing from Tuesday, 26 July to Saturday, 30 July in southern England.
Heavy rain and the heat from earlier this week will remain absent from southern England during the festival.

There will occasionally be an odd shower as several depressions track into the United Kingdom. However, the most numerous showers will remain to the north.
Showers may avoid Goodwood completely for Tuesday's opening ceremonies and on Thursday, which is designated as Ladies' Day.
The charity event Magnolia Cup will run on Thursday, along with the Qatar Goodwood Cup, which the Met Office states is the festival's most popular and oldest race.
Any showers that stream across Goodwood during the other days of the festival will generally be light and only last for 15-30 minutes. Parts of each day will be dry with some sunny spells.
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"Given how warm and dry the weather has been across southern England and the light rainfall amounts expected, a firm or good to firm going looks to be the most likely scenario [for the racecourse's conditions] throughout the festival," AccuWeather Meteorologist Brian Thompson said.
"Multiple showers could create more of a good going in parts of the course, but there will never be that much moisture in the course during the festival," he said.
The unsettled weather pattern will continue to keep heat from surging back into the U.K.

Temperatures will be fairly seasonable at Goodwood from Tuesday to Saturday with afternoon highs averaging 22-24 C (71-76 F).
At the peak of the heat wave earlier this week, temperatures soared to around 32 C (90 F).
A gentle to moderate breeze is expected to develop each day.