Home Opener Weather

Submitted by BornInAA on

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.

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TWSWBC

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. 

 

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Grahambino

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.

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Ty Butterfield

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.

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denardogasm

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

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corundum

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.

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LSAClassOf2000

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. 

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WMUgoblue

September 6th, 2012 at 7:04 PM ^

I will happily take the temp at 67 instead of the usual 85-90+ on opening Saturday. From what I've read it's only going to rain in the early morning, should be fine around kickoff.

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joeysos33

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.

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