PR Maven wrote:
It's going to be unseasonably warm and humid. Temps already in the 60's at the start and over 80% humidity. It will not be a PB kind of day...
The forecast for the dew point is 55 degrees, so if the forecast of the initial temperature of 62 hold, the relative humidity would be 78%. As the temperature rises with the constant dew point, the relative humidity will drop to about 60% at the end of the elite race, if the race goes off at 8am.
These conditions are not great but they are far from bad, especially in comparison to last year. They are much better than Beijing and they got a pretty 'hot' marathon out of that one. [And, if people remember the thread(s) on forecasts of the Olympic Marathon, I thought there is no way that they would run what they did -- I missed by a mile.]