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Virginia Tech Forecast:

“Let’s bring home some turkeys for Thanksgiving”

            Chief D-7 Meteorologist Bob Wevodau

Well the Terps are back.   The shocking win over FSU has sent the message to the conference that Maryland may be down, but we are not out.  We will have to see what happens in the UVA game.  If we use the FSU game as a spring board for the rest of the season, which we usually do with one big game every year, we can beat UVA, if we suffer a let down in Charlottesville, well we will be fighting for our very bowl lives in Blacksburg.  Va Tech won’t have so much on the line for this, they will most likely have their 6^th win of the year and be jockeying for which bowl they will get in to.  But let there be no doubt that they won’t be ready for us on Thursday night in front of a national audience.  Enough of this stuff, lets move on to the forecast.

The average high for November 18^th in Blacksburg, VA is 54F° (gulp).   The low is about 30F° can you believe this?!  Though the Denton 7 boys will be heading south to Blacksburg, we will actually be climbing over 2,000 feet up (2,132 feet is the elevation of the Blacksburg Airport, 70 is the elevation of the College Park airport).  A rough estimate is that you lose .5 a degree for every 100 feet of elevation so you can see why we might be a little chilly down there.   The record high for the date is a not very impressive 72F° (1953, why does that date ring a bell………. NATIONAL CHAMPS) and the record low is an unbelievable 14F° (1997).       

The almanac is a little vague on this date.  It calls for cold air with a chance of snow showers.  Now since that forecast is from the North Carolina Stateline to Maine, that is really a lot of ground to cover.  I am going to assume the snow showers are more for New England and we will be mostly cold with some overcast conditions.  I don’t have the guts to predict snowfall for this one, but based on the Blacksburg averages I guess you could say it isn’t entirely out of the question, but I am not going to be that bold.  I think we will see mostly average weather conditions for this one, perhaps a little cooler than normal.  Whatever the case the nighttime start will make it feel winter like.  So here is my forecast:

The forecast for the November 18, 2004 “Hokie Pokie” game is for a chilly partly cloudy night.  I think our temperatures are going to be slightly below normal and we are going to see some clouds and overcast, but no precipitation.  The winds should be relatively calm, at least I hope so or else the wind chill is going to be killer.   The morning temps should be in the upper 20’s to lower 30’s and the afternoon should warm up to the low 50’s.  This won’t do us much good because kickoff will be after sunset.  I think game time temperatures will be right around the mid 40’s.  Pretty chilly, but what else would you expect for a November night game.  Hopefully there will be plenty of Terps fans huddled around to keep us warm.  So in summary, no rain, no wind, and  no warmth. 

The game time sunrise for Blacksburg is for 7:04 am.  And the sunset is scheduled for 5:09 pm.  That will give us about 2 and half hours for the day to cool off before we see the kickoff.  It should be a great opportunity to sport your Terrapins winter gear for the first time this year.  Breaking through the clouds periodically you will see a Waxing Crescent moon in the sky.  It should be about 44% full.    

Look here for further updates, as we get closer to game day.

The X Factor- 

·        1873 - A severe storm raged from Georgia to Nova Scotia causing great losses to fishing fleets along the coast. In Maine, the barometric pressure reached 28.49 inches at Portland. (David Ludlum) Imagine Das Boot kicking in that one!

·        1986 - The first of two successive snowstorms struck the northeastern U.S. The storm produced up to 20 inches of snow in southern New Hampshire. Two days       later a second storm produced up to 30 inches of snow in northern Maine. (Storm Data). 

·        1987 - It was a windy day across parts of the nation. Gale force winds whipped the Great Lakes Region. Winds gusting to 80 mph in western New York State damaged buildings and flipped over flatbed trailers at Churchville Imagine playing flip cup in that mess. In Montana, high winds in the Upper Yellowstone Valley gusted to 64 mph at Livingston. Strong Santa Ana winds buffeted the mountains and valleys of southern California. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

WOW with all of the bad weather that has happened on this day in history, (usually I have to scrounge to find stuff, this time I had to leave out less important stuff), maybe I should rethink my forecast.