weekly weather report....snow in OCTOBER?!

I write to you all this evening after a long battle with physics with only the foo fighters to comfort me in the wee hours of the morning. Let me go ahead and tell you the new cd is sounding really good and my man crush on Dave Grohl continues to know no ends... sorry if that's creepy, don't worry the lady ok'd it because she loves Zac Brown Band and apparently the Foo Fighters and Zac Brown Band are best friends?

handsome, one of the last hopes of rock, and roll AND HE HATES NICKELBACK!

Regardless this article isnt here simply to love on the foo fighters, no its here to update you all before you get on the road for the drive down to our favorite place to do the one thing that allows us to shut everything else out and get rowdy for a weekend with our friends. Even if our team isnt having a season were used to seeing as far as fans go, we have to remember even in the darkest hours that this is the Virginia Tech hokies, and theyre still our team and its just a game. I for one will scream my head off until the very end, but I still have a great time tailgating with friends, and watching some incredible athletes play a sport we all love. Without them we wouldnt be able to analyze this game as much as we do, and watch it with such vigor. I havent missed a game in 7 years for this very reason, and I dont plan on starting soon (please god give me a decent grad school near da burg).

Enough ranting about football and the hokies and lets talk about the one factor no one else really discusses much on here! Earlier this week I mentioned it might snow this weekendyeah I wasnt kidding

sorry ladies, but you're gonna need a lot of alcohol to make short skirts work on this Halloween

with the low pressure system on top of Michigan blowing southeast and riding the cold front down expect temperatures to drop drastically here. As I mentioned numerous times before, cold air fronts create a source of lift which of course means rain. However since theres less warm air around (among other factors) you get less violent lift and potential energy in the air to create thunderstorms (thats one of the many reasons you dont hear thunder to much over the winter). This is a double edged sword however, as this means that we could more ice crystals in the clouds that can attach to water droplets, and this of course is how snow forms. As the water droplets are constantly pushed back up into the cloud they gather more and more ice crystals until they become snowflakes.

god I love snowflakes

now thanks to that Canadian air again blowing on down....damn Canadians... They're alllllllmost as bad as UVA

Blame Canada! They're not even a real country anyway

That air coupled with this cold front coming down expect this to happen to us. Starting with rain out in front of the cold front (its not quite cold enough yet because the polar Jetstream hasnt dropped far enough south) however as the cold air front passes over us and continues to drop temperatures expect the rain to gradually turn into snow and a disgusting mix. LUCKILY for those of you trying to drive home Saturday, temperatures on the ground should be a little too high. Temperature in the ground changes reallllly slow on certain surfaces, im sure theres a few engineers who can vouch for me here on this. Regardless, this should create what I like to call pretty snow. Pretty snow isnt much harm on drivers and the roads, but still falls on the grass and trees, and its not heavy enough to really create to much damage. Just enough to glaze everything over with that pretty snow look. This all should start hitting us starting Friday night with rainfall around 7 or 8 Friday night with a light drizzle progressively picking up until it peaks Saturday morning/early afternoon. The Euro is counting .37 (give or take a little) with .3 of precipitation hitting at 12z Saturday, aka 7 AM. After that it slows down but should be coming down at a steady drizzle around until it turns into basically a mist Saturday night. That isnt the only downside with temperatures dropping to a chilly 30 degrees Saturday night. The high on Saturday is going to be a cold 44 degrees, which will make for a pretty rough kickoff, think Marshall game last year with less rain and more coldbut still with rain. Also I just realized a lot of the models are pointing at some rough sustained winds around 8 to 14 knots 2 hours before and 2 hours after the game. This equates to roughly 9.2 to 16.1 MPH typically blowing in from the northwest. This could create some interesting kicking situations with a cold ball, wet ground and wet ball, and wind blowing. Im gonna go ahead and say any advantage either team holds in the air and in the special teams are going to be completely negatedthis is going to be an ugly bruising black and blue football game.

How this plays out on the field

Im going to straight up say it. I dont like the way we match up with Boston College. They play a physical bruising style of offense that our defense has struggled with as of late. The rain is going to make the game depend on our struggling offensive line whichisnt exactly music to my ears. That coupled with the fact that weve been working on our vertical passing game for a week where mother nature just does not seem to want to cooperate with us once again and Im a little scared. Its going to be very difficult to catch the ball let alone get in and out of cuts. We need to see something from our offense this week though. Some kind of pulse, anything and maybe BC will come out flat after travelling south in cold and terrible weather, for an early kickoff. If thats the case we certainly have the talent to compete in this game.

I dont have to much to get into with regards to science this week and I apologize for that, Im currently typing this at 1:45 AM and want to get to bed here soon, and also wanted to get this out before some of you made your travels. I would HIGHLY recommend bringing gloves, hats, scarves, coats, jackets, wool socks, boots.the worksthis could very easily be coldest game of the season and the wind and precipitation arent going to make it anymore pleasant. Our team needs us though so even if Im the only fan in the entire stadium ill be there the whole game. This team needs to turn it around, and it needs the support of that awesome fan base we need to brag about. So get behind your team and go out there and GET LOUD HOKIES!!!!!!!

We need this kind of crowd

Final predictions (yeesh that whole no score predictions thing is not working out to hot for me)

Hokies 20
BC 21 (sorry folks)
High 44
Low 30
100% chance of precip (specifically somewhere between .5 to 1)
very little snow accumulation (none on roads, theyll have that stuff salted down)
lots of cloud cover
good amount of wind

Sorry about the cold Halloween weather ladies... dress warm!

LETS GO SUPPORT OUR TEAM GUYS THROUGH THICK AND THIN! GO HOKIES!!!!

GO HOKIES TURN THE TIDE!