Home Opener Weather
This is the first time in a many years I can recall the opening home game with this weather:
Rain and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then a chance of rain and thunderstorms after 3pm. High near 69. Northwest wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Usually it's 90+ on the field.
Throwing Ducks Weather.
September 6th, 2012 at 5:30 PM ^
There's an interview with Denard on mgoblue.com and in it they show some clips from practice. There is a #47 sighting on the D line. I would assume it was BWC but maybe Ondre, who knows, I can't tell. Either way, whoever was wearing was not a WR.
Go Blue
September 6th, 2012 at 5:54 PM ^
I noticed that too, but then immediately wondered if whoever was going to get #47 would already be wearing it as a practice jersey before it's announced??
Of course, I can think of no other explanation.
September 6th, 2012 at 6:15 PM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 5:31 PM ^
Is this just your gut feeling or is there some sort of source you got this from?
September 6th, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail2/USMI0028
I certainly hope the weather channel is right! High of 68, but mostly sunny all day.
September 6th, 2012 at 6:13 PM ^
Meteorology.....where you can be wrong and never get fired. One site says 80% chance of rain and the other says 20%? That's not even close!!
September 6th, 2012 at 6:09 PM ^
time. Here is the hourly chart (relevant portion is in the bottom right):
September 6th, 2012 at 8:01 PM ^
My cornhole boards are dry weather only. It can downpour anytime after 3. Leave my tailgate alone!
September 6th, 2012 at 5:32 PM ^
Must have short term memory loss if you can't recall the rainfall that came down during the western game last year. Stadium evacuation, lightning, thunder in the form of Kovacs sacking their QB (BOOM), etc.
September 6th, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
Yes, but:
The temperature on the field at kickoff was over 137°F.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/090311aag.html
I was referring more about the temperature and windchill of 58.
September 6th, 2012 at 10:44 PM ^
In 2010, the opener (UConn) wasn't all that hot. It featured some autumn-like weather, IIRC.
September 7th, 2012 at 1:32 AM ^
I was just going to mention the 2010 UConn game. I remember it was cloudy and temps were in the high 50's/low60's. I did not actually mind because there have been some home openers where the weather has been crazy hot. I would not mind if we had these temps again but I could do without the rain.
September 6th, 2012 at 5:41 PM ^
I believe the OP was employing a technique I have learned about in my English language textbooks, whereby he says one thing, but means another. He does this in order to manufacture a comedic tone and elicit a jovial response from his reader. I can commiserate with you comrade, as it is a difficult concept for we foreigners to master.
edit: guess not
September 6th, 2012 at 11:10 PM ^
home and taking a cool shower. We had the heat on in the van on the way home.
September 6th, 2012 at 11:11 PM ^
alll I remember is that we were covering and the game got cut short... worst outcome ever.
love,
jdon
September 6th, 2012 at 6:13 PM ^
Can't catch a break with these home openers. Got rained out last year and looks like rained out this year.
September 6th, 2012 at 10:41 PM ^
Football games aren't "rained out." It takes a lightning storm for a football game to be postponed/cancelled.
September 6th, 2012 at 6:02 PM ^
Thanks for the update.
September 6th, 2012 at 6:18 PM ^
This type of weather sure favors a run-first team with a creative, deceptive running game. Good thing we're not playing the Air Force Acade....errrrr.....OMG! DOOM!
September 6th, 2012 at 6:29 PM ^
500 mb chart has the low pressure trough past Ann Arbor by 2 pm.
Lift / RH chart has most of the deep saturation east as well with low-level clouds and spotty showers over lower Michigan.
And the cold front / low pressure system at the surface is situated over the Appalachians by kickoff.
Back-side cold air advection and breezy winds out of the NW will be the story with temperatures in the mid to upper 60's. Spotty showers will be possible, but it won't be a washout by any means. The field will most likely be pretty wet from overnight / morning rain. Clouds could thin and begin to break up by the end of the game.
September 6th, 2012 at 7:52 PM ^
Bravo. One quibble though... home opener, and you had to mention the Appalachians?
September 6th, 2012 at 6:27 PM ^
September 6th, 2012 at 6:33 PM ^
Just play football...If Michigan can't handle Air Force under any conditions then their season is done anyways
September 6th, 2012 at 6:42 PM ^
Saturday's forecast, from a temperature standpoint, will actually be below average for an opening game at Michigan Stadium, for the past 20 seasons, the average high on the day of the first home game has been 79, and the average low has been 55. The coldest one in the described timeframe (probably not the coldest ever) was 1992, when it only managed to get to 63 that day, and the warmest was actually last year.
September 6th, 2012 at 6:51 PM ^
games down here when heavy rain is predicted. Something about tearing up the field too much.
No wonder the South lost the Civil War...
September 6th, 2012 at 6:56 PM ^
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September 6th, 2012 at 7:04 PM ^
I want to read MGoWeather's diary on the field conditions before I buy a ticket off a scalper.
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September 6th, 2012 at 10:58 PM ^
Well besides the T-Storm. But raining n muck sounds just like Michigan football. Fitz Toussaint/T-Rawls weather. O-line will step up and Defense MUST stop the run.
September 6th, 2012 at 11:36 PM ^
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=322&map.y=248&site=grr&z…
its still saying 50% chance of precip through gametime
September 7th, 2012 at 11:58 AM ^
Well its still 102 in Dallas. Be happy you guys got to go home after the massacre.