Detailed forecast
Issued on Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 5:00am by Ronaldsway Met Office

A bit of a cloudy morning but still fairly bright, with sunny intervals developing during the afternoon,

but also probably a few scattered showers. Still breezy,

With the fresh to strong southwest winds continuing, The maximum temperature again around 18 Celsius.

12:45  - All Roads Closed around the TT Mountain Course

13:30 - 15:15 - Classic TT Lightweight / Superbike & MGP Senior / Junior (no CTT / MGP Newcomers)

15:15 - 16:50 - Classic TT 350 / 500 & MGP Lightweight / Ultra Lightweight (no CTT / MGP Newcomers)

16:50 - 17:40 - All Classic TT Newcomers & MGP Newcomers (untimed)

17:50 Roads Begin To Open

18:20 All Roads Open

Sunday's qualifying session - rescheduled following the cancellation of qualifying sessions on Saturday - has been cancelled due to a shortage of available marshals.

Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson has cancelled today’s qualifying session after only a speed controlled lap for newcomers took place yesterday due to adverse weather conditions. It has been decided at an early stage to cancel the alternate session to minimise disruption to competitors, marshals and the general public.

“The TTMA did an outstanding job yesterday to get Marshals in place for last night’s first qualifying session, and I am very grateful to all of the marshals that turned out last night.  Although the start of the session was delayed because we had to move a number of Marshals around the TT Course, we were thwarted by a shower of rain which severely affected the west coast of the Island. 

What I don’t want to do is close the road, get everyone in place, have everyone waiting and then find we can’t hold the qualifying session, so we have decided to give everyone plenty of notice and cancel today’s session and concentrate on getting Marshal numbers in place for Monday night”.

Roads are due to close at 18:00 on Monday evening for the first qualifying session which is due to get underway at 18:20 with the Classic TT Superbikes/Lightweights and the MGP Senior/Juniors followed by the Classic TT Seniors/Juniors and the MGP Lightweights/Ultra Lightweights at 19:15 with a separate MGP Newcomers practice at 19:45 with Roads due to open all around the Course around 20:30 but no later than 21:00.

Tomorrow's schedule can also be found here.

For further information about the festivities across the Classic TT weekend, visit the Festival Pages.