Tropical Storm Joaquin could affect Michigan game on Saturday
Tropical Storm Joaquin has formed in the Atlantic and forecasts call for lots of rain beginning tomorrow through the entire weekend along the Eastern Seaboard. Some predicitions call for heavy rain and high winds Saturday when Joaquin could be blowing just east of the DC area.
Obviously, this could have an effect on our game. For those of us traveling to College Park for the game (like me), keep an eye on things throughout the rest of the week.
With heavy rains, we can just pound the ball with our stable of RBs, right?
September 29th, 2015 at 9:31 AM ^
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September 29th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
if multiple overtime games where we struggle to 200 yards of offense make you comfortable I guess there is nothing to worry about. Seriously though, I was thinking the same thing until I saw Stanford paste USC(transitive property limitations applying) and then I began to think there may be something to this Northwestern outfit.
September 29th, 2015 at 10:13 AM ^
I don't get the NW hype. Ball State lost by less than a TD at NW, and moved the ball at times. I was NOT impressed by the NW offense in the least, and the defense isn't scary good either, IMO. Unless they win the TO battle by at least 2, we will roll NW.
September 29th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
September 29th, 2015 at 8:59 AM ^
September 29th, 2015 at 9:01 AM ^
If lightning.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:15 AM ^
I'm going to the game, so please AMHG, don't do it.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:21 AM ^
I'll see you there. I'll be the one wearing the rainsuit and garbage bags.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:01 AM ^
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September 29th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
September 29th, 2015 at 9:02 AM ^
Does anyone else hate the fact that Weather.com has turned into the TMZ of weather reporting? I am trying to look at a map or the 10 day forecast and all i see is "Woman Arrested After Photo Goes Viral", "What $200,000 Can Get You in Every State", "Raccoon Knocking For Food", "Huge Bear Hides Under Porch"...
September 29th, 2015 at 9:06 AM ^
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September 29th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^
September 29th, 2015 at 1:18 PM ^
Intellicast has all the neat toys.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:30 AM ^
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September 29th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
...which is sadly owned by the weather channel now
But yes, wunderground is way better for the time being
September 29th, 2015 at 10:07 AM ^
Been owned by them for ~3 years now. Pretty much allowed to run as an entirely seperate entity. They run an entirely different website, create their own apps, etc. In fact, they largely have a completely different feature set. Don't even know if they are running off the same data (wunderground actually provides a lot of the weather content for various media companies as well).
September 29th, 2015 at 10:16 AM ^
Forcast.io is another excellent weather aggregate service. Highly recommended along with WU.
September 29th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
Everyone who was watching the weather channel 20 years ago or checking weather.com 10 years ago now has an app on their phone. I have to imagine their audience has completely dropped out in the last 10 years
But them trying to clickbait me makes it even worse as I now just use Weather Underground for everything
September 29th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
wunderground does pretty all right overall. They generally rank in the ~100ish range of visited websites. ~47 million monthly vistors. And its the second most visited weather website in the world. Would have to assume that weather.com is the most so they are probably doing all right.
Plus at least wunderground was designed to have fairly low operating costs. The whole idea behind it was to use the publically available data and forcasts and present it in a useful way. Over time they've added some additional algorithims on top of it, but costs shouldn't be that much of an issue.
Part of the problem with weather.com is likely that its part of the weather channel side of the house and as you point out, that's been having some issues.
September 29th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ^
Why would a Michigan grad or supporter use anything else but wunderground.com? Its basically the commercial spin off of the weather underground project at UM (or at least it was until bought by the weather company). Even though its owned by the same company as weather.com, its like 10x better.
September 29th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^
Am I a bad fan for not knowing this?!!!
September 29th, 2015 at 10:08 AM ^
I'd recommend Weather Underground if you hate the TMZ stuff and want excellent, customizable radar. You can often get 1 year ad-free too, which also applies to the mobile app.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:02 AM ^
I don't care about the rain unless it causes a cancellation, postponement or delay. I'm flying in for the AM and have to leave Sunday AM for my first UM game in like 6 years. I will brave the rain. It had better not be fucking cancelled or I wasted about $500 and a ton of excitment.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^
look closely at the projected path my friend. If it holds up along witht he conditions predicted I don't know how much flying anybody is going to be doing along the east coast. Not trying to get your Tuesday off to a bad start but I was a little stunned when I looked at the storm models as they relate to the scheduled kick.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:06 AM ^
Recently, I had to travel to SW Florida during what was being predicted as Tropical Storm Erika. We were prepared for the worst case scenario (stuck in Florida for several days, I'll let you decide if that would have been good or bad), but the storm ended up dissipating and we got some rain, but nothing that ever delayed travel or the event we were there for.
6 weeks later - I'm planning on making the trip to MD this weekend. Hoping for a repeat of the storm dissipating to watch our boys open the B1G season with a W.
GO BLUE!
September 29th, 2015 at 9:09 AM ^
Regarding potential rainy weather for the game:
- The good news is that I'm making a long weekend of it in the DC Metro area so going to the game is not the only thing I'll be doing.
- The bad news is that I really don't give a shit about all that other stuff.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
Me too. We got White House and Supreme Court tickets. Should be a good weekend.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
We were going to do the White House until we discovered it's like a three week process. So now I think we're going to do the Capitol, a few museums, and probably wander around the Mall.
But really all I care about is the game. Priorities!!
September 29th, 2015 at 3:15 PM ^
It's hit or miss - requested WH tix from both my Senator and Congressman six months ago. The Senator was only able to procure Supreme Court tix for us but the Congressman came through with WH tix. The only catch was they are for 7:30AM on Friday which meant that we had to add another vacation day to get us there on time. Small price to pay though.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:11 AM ^
There are going to be so many of us at this game(!)
September 29th, 2015 at 9:11 AM ^
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September 29th, 2015 at 9:13 AM ^
September 29th, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^
visability issues with their Ninja uniforms.
and we will still kick their asses.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
Well, the game starts at 8 pm so it looks like it will be right on time...
EDIT: Nevermind, apparently I can't read good, and I should probably try to learn to do other stuff good, too. My bad.
RE-EDIT: OK, I'm not crazy. The Michigan Insider just tweeted this same pic, except it said the storm would be over the DC area at 8 PM on Saturday. See here: https://twitter.com/michiganinsider/status/648844273710931968
September 29th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
No disrespect to Michigan Insider, but it's an older projection. See here for the date of release:
September 29th, 2015 at 11:12 AM ^
That's correct. Going to keep this link bookmarked for the rest of the week and check in on what the National Hurricane Center currently projects:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/083335.shtml?5-daynl…
Right now it's looking like we may get lucky.
EDIT: Lastest trends looking better and better.
September 29th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
A noon start will avoid the worst of the winds, if not the rain (and keep the drivers off the road in the evening).
September 29th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
Cool, thanks for the clarification and the correct link!
September 29th, 2015 at 9:43 AM ^
If this forecast track and timing holds, we should be OK for the game. The latest NHC forecast indicates College Park, MD in the 5-10% probability of tropical storm force winds. It could still be very breezy and rainy, but the eye will hopefully stay safely out of range. Nonetheless, this forecast will dominate our collective attention until Saturday.
Another option is to move kickoff time to early afternoon if the forecast looks horrendous. But that solution might be too logical.
September 29th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
The edge of the probability cone still comes very close to that area, so I wouldn't bank on that just yet. If the storm center gets that close, conditions will be horrendous.
I don't know how far in advance they want to make the decision on whether to move the game time. Obviously, if they can wait another couple of days the predictions will be a lot better. They'll probably want to plan such that people will have time to get home before anything hits if it's going to affect the area at all.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
Will destroy T.S. Joaquin. If it rains Saturday, it's because Harbaugh WANTS it to rain.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
September 29th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
go watch the highlight video of Michigan at Northwestern 1998 in light of this news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Qq9bCVs3s
September 29th, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^
I don't have to watch a highlight video of that game. I was there and I have never been so wet before or after in my life. It was a torrential downpour from before the game started until after it ended and it never let up. Ever since I heard I am road tripping to a tropical storm the thought of that game is the thing that keeps coming into my head. At least this time I will be leaving my wife at home.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
WTF for? We've played in worse conditions.
September 29th, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
He and some friends drove from Ann Arbor to Columbus on Friday night and spent the evening drinking beer with Buckeye faithful and going back and forth singing each side's fight song.
Come Saturday, he said they weren't even taking tickets at the stadium. As he and hie friends were walking up the gate, one of the ushers remarked, "Enter if you dare." 60+ years later he still vividly remembers walking in and seeing a mostly empty stadium completely covered in snow. Just a bizarre scene.
September 29th, 2015 at 9:36 AM ^