Wild Card Weekend - Wild Card Weather

[PBF81]

1 minute ago, GottaRun said:

TMRW (Tomorrow app) shows 6" snow Saturday and 5" Sunday with 22mph wind Sunday.  Not ideal but hopefully they can clear the Saturday snow from the stands and field so all we are dealing with is Sunday's weather.

 

Are there worse forecasts out there?

 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/orchard-park/14127/daily-weather-forecast/2128285?day=3

 

 

[BrettFavre]

2 minutes ago, GottaRun said:

TMRW (Tomorrow app) shows 6" snow Saturday and 5" Sunday with 22mph wind Sunday.  Not ideal but hopefully they can clear the Saturday snow from the stands and field so all we are dealing with is Sunday's weather.

 

Are there worse forecasts out there?

As many others have said, you shouldn't be trusting any sources that aren't NOAA/NWS or 2/4/7 when it comes to lake effect.

 

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.773700000000076&lon=-78.78695999999997

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

5 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:

Play the game.  Josh can still throw the ball.

I gotta agree…belichicks face when Josh started throwing darts into the wind in that infamous wind game was priceless.  The result of that one was an absolute fluke and people take it like it’s gospel.

 

we’ve won all of the high wind games I can think of but that one 

Edited January 12 by Generic_Bills_Fan

[Gregg]

[SoCal Deek]

57 minutes ago, WEATHER DOT COM said:

 

That report has been shot down, however that was prior to the forecast that came out this morning.

 

IMO, it would make the game a home game for the Steelers and the Bills would lose their home field advantage.

 

Steelers fans will be able to travel safely to Cleveland without a worry about the storm.

 

Bills fans would need to drive through the storm to get to Cleveland.

With all due respect I really don’t think that’s the issue. I believe the consideration is that of general public safety, not home field advantage. 

[WEATHER DOT COM]

1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:

With all due respect I really don’t think that’s the issue. I believe the consideration is that of general public safety, not home field advantage. 

 

Not sure I implied differently. 

 

IMO, it would make the game a home game for the Steelers and the Bills would lose their home field advantage.

 

With all due respect, if you followed this thread I've been giving caution to the general public about this weather event since... the very first post. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

6 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

With all due respect I really don’t think that’s the issue. I believe the consideration is that of general public safety, not home field advantage. 

They can consider multiple things at the same time lol and given the clock has pretty much run out on moving it and still having the game at 1 Sunday, its likely they prefer a reschedule over moving it if the weather gets too bad 

[VaMilBill]

17 minutes ago, GottaRun said:

TMRW (Tomorrow app) shows 6" snow Saturday and 5" Sunday with 22mph wind Sunday.  Not ideal but hopefully they can clear the Saturday snow from the stands and field so all we are dealing with is Sunday's weather.

 

Are there worse forecasts out there?

Is that 6” throughout the day or later in the day happening?

[SoCal Deek]

6 minutes ago, WEATHER DOT COM said:

 

Not sure I implied differently. 

 

IMO, it would make the game a home game for the Steelers and the Bills would lose their home field advantage.

 

With all due respect, if you followed this thread I've been giving caution to the general public about this weather event since... the very first post. 

No personal attack implied. 

[nucci]

from NWS Orchard Park for Sunday

 

Snow before 8am, then a chance of snow showers between 8am and 11am, then snow after 11am. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow before 8am, then areas of blowing snow after 11am. High near 24. Windy, with a southwest wind 26 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

[SoCal Deek]

If I’m the Buffalo Bills I’d rather play the Steelers on a neutral site, preferably indoors, when my roster is clearly stronger than Pittsburgh’s as opposed to having something as fickle as weather serve to level the playing field. 

[Big Turk]

24 minutes ago, BrettFavre said:

Enjoy your weather posts, not a shot at you.

 

It feels like WNY is losing its generational winter coping abilities since we don't get consistent snow anymore. And now a funny thing is happening where people think every storm is going to be a 5 footer. We used to get a foot or two all the time. Carpool if you don't have a snow vehicle, drive slow, don't spin your tires, pack some supplies and a shovel in case. It's not the end of the world.

 

There will likely be 8-12 inches of fluffy lake effect snow in the stadium. Brush it off, trudge through it, toss a snowball at your buddy, bask in the glory of weather that only happens in a handful of places in the world. 

 

If you lived thru last year's winter and were south of Williamsville, you would get it.

 

Last year almost broke me and I grew up here and have lived here my whole life outside of a 12 year period in my college years and the 8 years after. 35+ years.

 

In the snow belt areas.

 

It's simply changing. The heavier storms are becoming more frequent due to the lakes often being at record warm temperatures now and the amount of moisture that can be sucked up and then dumped is directly proportional to the difference between the air and water temperature, which is becoming higher and higher over time.

 

I'd much rather get 7 feet over 4 weeks than have 7 feet in 2 days and then nothing for the other 3 weeks and 5 days. That's the main difference 

Edited January 12 by Big Turk

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

27 minutes ago, SCBills said:

This is killing my excitement for the game.

 

Just hoping we find a way and move on.

 

Fight so hard for 18 weeks to get to a point where we’re potentially looking at, not a football game, but a test of which side can handle blizzard conditions better. 

It's not right. There's way too much that goes into this for a playoff game and a team's season to be decided by the weather.

[Buffalo Bills Fan]

4 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

If you lived thru last year's winter and were south of Williamsville, you would get it.

 

Last year almost broke me and I grew up here and have lived here my whole life outside of a 12 year period in my college years and the 8 years after. 35+ years.

 

In the snow belt areas.

 

It's simply changing. The heavier storms are becoming more frequent due to the lakes often being at record warm temperatures now and the amount of moisture that can be sucked up and then dumped is directly proportional to the difference between the air and water temperature, which is becoming higher and higher over time.

 

I'd much rather get 7 feet over 4 weeks than have 7 feet in 2 days and then nothing for the other 3 weeks and 5 days. That's the main difference 

Agree with you. Rather have first 7 feet of snow 4 weeks something like that. Rather than hit all at once. Hitting big at once is awful.

[Mojo44]

I don’t know if it’s been said upthread, but in the unlikely event the game is moved to Cleveland it’s advantage Bills despite the loss of home field. If the weather is decent there then the bills can fully release Josh the Kraken! I don’t think it will happen but I would be fine with it. In a way I wish it would happen. The bills are the better team. I think the forecast in Buffalo helps Pittsburgh a lot more than us.

[zow2]

4 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:

It's not right. There's way too much that goes into this for a playoff game and a team's season to be decided by the weather.

 

Were supposed to have an advantage in "our" weather and in our stadium.   Run the ball better, scramble better, play D better, punt better and win the turnover margin.

[BillsFanSD]

Why do you guys root for a northern team if you're just going to b-- and moan every time we have to play a game in winter weather?  Root for the Jaguars if you don't like it -- they need the extra fans more than we do.

Edited January 12 by BillsFanSD

[Bills!Win!]

When does the NFL have to make a decision on when the game is going to be played or if it’s moved? 

[The Frankish Reich]

13 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

If I’m the Buffalo Bills I’d rather play the Steelers on a neutral site, preferably indoors, when my roster is clearly stronger than Pittsburgh’s as opposed to having something as fickle as weather serve to level the playing field. 

Right. The Bills probably beat the Steelers 8 out of 10 times in a dome.

In a snowstorm? Maybe 5 or 6 out of 10. It increases randomness, which plays to the benefit of the lesser team.

Maybe we should've played Kyle Allen last week in Miami ....

[Bill from NYC]

12 minutes ago, nucci said:

from NWS Orchard Park for Sunday

 

Snow before 8am, then a chance of snow showers between 8am and 11am, then snow after 11am. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow before 8am, then areas of blowing snow after 11am. High near 24. Windy, with a southwest wind 26 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

That sounds rough.

 

Years ago I was at RWS when Bledsoe was the qb and we were playing Arizona.  It wasn't snowing but the winds were insane. He tossed a little screen and the wind blew the football backwards.

45 mph is rough but winds like this would give Josh a decided edge against really any other passer in the world imo.