Game-Time Forecast: 89 and Sunny
September 21st, 2017 at 12:38 PM ^
we are the better conditioned team, but Purdue survived a giant sinkhole on their practice field.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
This heat can eat my ass.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
with a wooden spoon even
September 21st, 2017 at 1:23 PM ^
go on...
September 22nd, 2017 at 2:37 AM ^
Avacado?
September 21st, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
was 120 degrees on the field.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
Gold Bond medicated nut powder. Remember men, if you're not using Gold Bond medicated nut powder......then you're just plain nuts!
September 21st, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
we typically go by air temp not ground temps. what was the air temp?
September 21st, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
Was HAWT
September 21st, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
I remember the home opener against Virginia in '95 was a scorcher. Players were cramping up left and right.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
The 2002 home opener against Washington with the Phil Brabbs kick was a scorcher.
Fans were passing out from the heat.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:50 PM ^
on September 23 is too hot.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
I have learned to never complain about the weather being too warm lest the gods of winter send us several months of cold misery.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
In high school we played in 90+ heat. I remember during half time I was dripping purple sweat from my knee braces that stained the floor. It was just like those Gatorade commercials
September 21st, 2017 at 12:53 PM ^
The Thunderstorm game against WMU in 2011 had temps in the 90s before the storms lowered temps. They were carrying people out who collapsed from heat stroke.
September 21st, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
With the air on and was looking forward to a cool shower when we got home. I drove home with the heat on looking forward to a hot shower.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
I remember the 2011 opener vs Western Michigan being very hot. Our tailgate ran out of water (and we typically bring a bunch) before the game. Looking back it got up to 94 before the thunderstorms rolled in.
https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KARB/2011/9/3/DailyHistory…
September 21st, 2017 at 12:55 PM ^
I remember that one too. I was so sun burnt after that one. When it started raining, I was so happy.
September 21st, 2017 at 2:14 PM ^
My phone showed 98 in the stadium and I heard somewhere that the effective temp on the field was 130. Have no idea if that is true, but even if it wasn't I can attest that the game was a scorcher. Absolutely miserable in the beating sun...followed by beating rain. Left after about an hour or so of sitting in the car waiting for it to stop.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:55 PM ^
It could be 90 and sunny or 20 and snowy, Purdue isn't beating Michigan on Saturday. C'mon guys.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:23 PM ^
If it's 90 and snowy though, I'll start to worry that the natural order of things has been upset.
September 22nd, 2017 at 2:41 AM ^
rises in the west.
September 21st, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^
on the east side of the field when it started to rain. 80+ degrees on that side of the field for a nooner is brutal.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^
You know you've been out west too long when 89 is scorching. Was 112 many times here this summer. That is miserable. 89 is great weather. Remember this day when it's pissing cold rain in November.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^
It's already pretty impressively hot for late September here in Belleville. I walked outside for a little screen break and the walk itself was brutal.
Let it be known that August arrived on September 21st, which here is taken as a reminder of how behind some things are at the moment.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:06 PM ^
Quite a nice stretch of weather for late summer, early autumn football. A little warm, perhaps, but better than playing (or watching) the game in a monsoon.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
Quite a stretch indeed
September 21st, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
going to a home opener about 16-17 years ago. it was so hot my dad's pager fried
September 21st, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
It may be 89 but winter is coming for Purdue football.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
The sun will be low in the sky for most of the game and the seating in Purdue's stadium (if you can call it that...it's more like a field with some oversized high school bleachers surrounding it) is at a low angle relative to the ground. This is a game where end of field could actually matter.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
Do you mean it will matter because the sun will be in one team's eyes? It's a north-south aligned stadium with the press box on the western edge. If you're speaking from experience there then I relent, but it would seem counterintuitive to me that the sun would be a problem.
September 21st, 2017 at 2:24 PM ^
Purdue hosted VT on September 19th --- 3:30 kick --- back in 2015. A close analogy to Saturday.
Looks like your typical "shadow starting to hit the field at the start of the game, makes mid-field by the 2nd quarter and covers the entire field by the 3rd quarter" type of deal.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
I assume this means that when winter finally comes, she will come a LOT.
That's honestly the best way I can think to phrase it.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
upon arrival Saturday morning will be to find a tailgating spot with some shade trees. I'm already good on my seats, in the shadow of the press box all game long.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
Well, at least we'll be wearing the road whites (right?! Please say yes) and they'll be in home black jerseys. Not a huge advantage, but I always remember hating wearing dark jerseys on hot sunny days.
September 21st, 2017 at 3:36 PM ^
Remember to wear the whites. #jessup
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September 21st, 2017 at 9:46 PM ^
And set up the mist fans.
September 21st, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
I remember dozens of games when the temp is hotter than that. Not sure if you have that bad of a memory.
Oh wait, I see where you were going with that...oh no global warming is going to ruin our game!! Something must be done!
September 21st, 2017 at 2:22 PM ^
MAIZE pants.
September 21st, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
Looking for a hotel room.... everything within hours is booked. Any ideas?
September 21st, 2017 at 3:06 PM ^
But is it a dry heat?
September 21st, 2017 at 3:40 PM ^
Would be selling a lot of those $5 bottles of water.
September 21st, 2017 at 3:54 PM ^
when it was wicked hot, 90+, and no wind on the field. that'll take it out of you.
and its hot up here this week. my sons are going to swelter in their games as well.
September 21st, 2017 at 9:58 PM ^
89 is not scorching hot lol.
September 22nd, 2017 at 1:39 AM ^
..fresh dudes