35-40 mph constant winds, gusts of 55 mph for tomorrow's game

PATSNUTme · Dec 27, 2008

Here's is the NWS forecast for Orchard Park where the stadium is located.

Sunday: Rain showers likely before noon, then a slight chance of snow showers after 4pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 39 by 5pm. Windy, with a southwest wind 23 to 26 mph increasing to between 34 and 37 mph. Winds could gust as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

BionicPatriot · Dec 27, 2008

Love it, lets pound the rock. We need weather conditions to help us out.

Brady'sButtBoy · Dec 28, 2008

As of 8am - South wind 36mph gusting to 46mph, and it will only get worse as the front passes around noon (also, temps will crash 20 degrees in less than two hours). There is a possibility the wind will ease a bit late in the game.

BPF · Dec 28, 2008

Here's the weather.com update and hour-by-hour breakdown: Hour by Hour Weather Forecast for Buffalo, NY - weather.com

Looks like WSW wind direction ranging from 34-40 mph.

Johnny Mac · Dec 28, 2008

The goal posts were bent a good 15-20 degrees off center.

BPF · Dec 28, 2008

Johnny Mac said:
The goal posts were bent a good 15-20 degrees off center.

I think you're referring to this:
Welcome to windy Buffalo - Reiss' Pieces - Boston.com

It is extremely windy here, with gusts of nearly 40 miles per hour at this time. The goal posts in the stadium are both tilted to their side at this time, and a bit earlier, the white benches that players sit on were lifted off the ground.

BPF · Dec 28, 2008

Wow!!

ProFootballTalk.com - BENT GOALPOSTS WON’T KEEP BILLS-PATS GAME FROM GOING FORWARD

Moments ago, ESPN televised images of goalposts in Buffalo that had noticeably twisted due to high winds in Western New York.

But Adam Schefter of NFL Network reports that the game will go on.

“There’s no reason to delay kickoff,”NFL spokesman Pete Abitante told Schefter. “It doesn’t seem like anything to get too worked up about.”

Apparently, the game will go on after the goalposts are fixed. But if the winds persist, the goalposts could be bent again.

Bent goalposts would be the least of the problems for the teams, however; if the wind is strong enough to blow the goalposts out of whack, the game itself could end up being something that would make Woody Hayes proud.

35-40 mph constant winds, gusts of 55 mph for tomorrow's game

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