Weather for PSU: tailgates mild/dry, game likely to have some showers and be windy with front

[RU848789]

Wish we could get a friggin' blizzard, but it's actually looking decent, although there is a small chance of an afternoon or evening shower. Looks like afternoon temps in the low 60s (normal high/low is 54/35F on 11/19) with partly cloudy skies for the most part. At this point, any showers that do hit should be short-lived and light (if they hit at all - still a week out). Temps will be in the 50s for the game.

http://www.weather.gov/phi/

 

[Rutgers8086]

Thanks. Coming up for the game.

 

[bac2therac]

Showers of any intensity will kill attendence...this isnt 2 years ago...should it rain its the perfect excuse

 

[mikebal9]

For the first time since we got tickets in 2005, I am considering staying in the lot and skipping the game. We have 11 tickets and nobody wants to watch the game. Hopefully the weather is good for a nice extended tailgate .

 

[Leonard23]

Weather better be good & no rain with wrestling & an all day tailgate with breakfast, lunch and dinner. We need to win the tailgate.

 

[mikebal9]

You're right. I'm not a fan. We'll watch the game at a bar. So terrible.

 

[GSGS]

Showers of any intensity will kill attendence...this isnt 2 years ago...should it rain its the perfect excuse

No it won't, because the PSU fans will show up.

My "weather" forecast for the game is a downpour of Pedophile Supporters followed by a few scattered Scarlet Knight fans. :-(

 

[RU at the shore]

Who needs rain to skip this one ?

 

[jerseylion109]

Penn state is going to take over the stadium

 

[RutgersROB]

For the first time since we got tickets in 2005, I am considering staying in the lot and skipping the game. We have 11 tickets and nobody wants to watch the game. Hopefully the weather is good for a nice extended tailgate .

I would actually like to do the exact opposite since i dont have tickets... I cant afford to pay an arm and a leg for tickets but planning on tailgating my ass off

 

[bac2therac]

there will be 15K PSU to 30K RU fans with nice weather....15K PSU fans to 20K RU fans if it rains

 

[goru1869]

My wife , son and I are going to watch the 10th ranked R.U. wrestling team and then tailgait with some new friends after the match. What football game are people talking about?

 

[MGSA99]

For the first time since we got tickets in 2005, I am considering staying in the lot and skipping the game. We have 11 tickets and nobody wants to watch the game. Hopefully the weather is good for a nice extended tailgate .

Tickets are still $75 on stubhub for get in price. Sell them now before the rain forecast devalues your tickets.

 

[RUsince52]

I predict it will be DARK, very DARK.

 

[Machiavelli23]

Showers of any intensity will kill attendence...this isnt 2 years ago...should it rain its the perfect excuse

It won't kill their attendance but will certainly kill ours

 

[Machiavelli23]

Penn state is going to take over the stadium

Very sad but very very true

 

[jason21psu]

Penn state is going to take over the stadium

I went to the OSU UMD game and that was a stadium takeover. By my observations it was 60-65% OSU fans. The metro in and out of College Park was even a much higher ratio. They were O, H, I, O-ing throughout the stadium at the end. I'll be at the game next week and will give a comparison but I don't think we takeover HPSS the way OSU took over Capital One Field, Maryland Stadium or whatever they actually call their stadium.

 

[RUBound]

This will be by far the highest concentration of visitor fans at Highpoint ever - PSU fans in NJ will come out in full force - especially with a top 8 team and RU fans interest waning. RU fans are cashing in, or giving tix to friends and colleagues (due a lot of ties to PSU in NJ).

 

[BoogieKnight]

Penn state is going to take over the stadium

Who cares when RU has no chance to win the game? A home field advantage isn't going to make any difference anyway.

 

[bac2therac]

I keep seeing late day rain in the forecast so the OP seems too optimistic

 

[RU848789]

I keep seeing late day rain in the forecast so the OP seems too optimistic

What are you talking about? I mentioned the chance of showers in the afternoon/evening.

 

[ArminRU]

F Penn State. Pack the stadium.

 

[bac2therac]

You said its looking decent..its way too early to tell for sure...there is rain chance that could be pushed back or moved forward and we have learned things change this far out.

 

[ScarletDave]

Penn State will be #7 or #8 in the nation - their fanbase in this area will be jumping for tickets. Our attendance for Indiana was 37,300. That leaves room for almost 15,000. Will PSU have that many? Will RU fans that skipped out on the Hoosier game come to this one because it's a big game, and at night instead of a nooner? Those are the things to look at. I could see PSU having close to 10,000, which is just under 20%. I don't know what is considered a "takeover" given that 3,000 seats are allotted anyway to visitors, but that would still be enough people to make a difference.

 

[RU848789]

You said its looking decent..its way too early to tell for sure...there is rain chance that could be pushed back or moved forward and we have learned things change this far out.

Since you seem to have trouble with basic reading comprehension, I said it was, "looking decent, although there is a small chance of an afternoon or evening shower." I think it's pretty obvious that I meant it was going to be ok, for the most part, i.e., decent, except for those brief stretches when we might have a shower or two. And of course, it's way too early to tell for sure - I had multiple caveats in my post.

Anyway, most of the current (12Z) models show a completely dry tailgate and game, but not all, so it's still more likely than not that we have no rain, but way too early to count on that. NWS is carrying a 30% chance of showers for the evening, after a dry day. We'll see.

 

[RU848789]

Models almost unanimous in keeping things dry through the tailgates, with partly sunny skies in the early afternoon to mostly cloudy skies by the late afternoon to early evening; temps should top out in the low 60s, dropping to the mid-50s by kickoff and to around 50F by the end of the game.

The big question is whether the game, itself, remains dry or not and the jury is still out on that, although most of the models show it remaining dry; however, the NWS is going with 40-50% chance of showers (light and intermittent, not major rain) starting in the early evening.

Given that we're still 5 days out, it's too early to call if the showers will hold off until after the game or not and it's also still possible the showers could come earlier, interfering with tailgates, although that's looking like a low probability. On the plus side, it's not supposed to be windy at all.

Would be great to at least have a nice day for tailgating, since the tailgate is likely the only thing we'll win on Saturday.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

A storm of biblical proportions might give us our only chance to not get obliterated .

 

[RU848789]

A storm of biblical proportions might give us our only chance to not get obliterated .

That's why I was hoping for a blizzard. However, they stomped us last year in the rain, so not sure weather will matter.

 

[mildone]

That's why I was hoping for a blizzard. However, they stomped us last year in the rain, so not sure weather will matter.

Don't make me conjure up the memory of WVU in the snow.

 

[RU848789]

Don't make me conjure up the memory of WVU in the snow.

Don't look now, but the rain may change to wet snow in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, well to the N/W of I-95 - and there could be some wet snowflakes by dawn even in our area. Could be a light accumulation in the Poconos and far NW NJ and the Hudson Valley, but no accumulation near us, as temps will be well above 32F.

 

[Degaz-RU]

Praying that the rain holds off until after the game. Last thing I want is to lose the game AND to sit in a chilly rain the process.

 

[RUsince52]

Don't make me conjure up the memory of WVU in the snow.

That's not funny because the damage was way beyond the field. My backyard looked like a logging operation gone bad. Lost power, but unfortunately was able to get the game. Count my lucky stars, no damage to the house.

 

[mildone]

That's not funny because the damage was way beyond the field. My backyard looked like a logging operation gone bad. Lost power, but unfortunately was able to get the game. Count my lucky stars, no damage to the house.

I remember my youngest was with us at that game, in middle-school at the time, I think.

At the end of the first quarter, he complained that his feet were cold. At halftime, he was complaining that his feet really hurt. At the end of the third quarter, he had stopped complaining and seemed perfectly happy. When I asked him about it, he said he couldn't feel them at all anymore.

Oops.

So we left the game and waited for the rest of the crew in the car with the radio on and the heater going full blast. It was an unpleasant wait given the way the game went.

 

[RUsince52]

I remember my youngest was with us at that game, in middle-school at the time, I think.

At the end of the first quarter, he complained that his feet were cold. At halftime, he was complaining that his feet really hurt. At the end of the third quarter, he had stopped complaining and seemed perfectly happy. When I asked him about it, he said he couldn't feel them at all anymore.

Oops.

So we left the game and waited for the rest of the crew in the car with the radio on and the heater going full blast. It was an unpleasant wait given the way the game went.

It was weird watching on TV with snow in Oct. Had to miserable just sitting in that weather. I probably would have had to stay near NB for the night. The worse part was later when you knew what was suppose to happen weather wise and just kept watching and waiting. Glad to hear you survived the outing and frostbite.

 

[RU4Real]

We tailgated hard for that game. When it was all over, the tent was destroyed under the weight of all that heavy snow. It was an easy decision to abandon it in the parking lot.

 

[Caliknight]

Don't make me conjure up the memory of WVU in the snow.

Plowing the field was the dumbest thing ever:

 

[RU4Real]

Plowing the field was the dumbest thing ever:

You just saw it coming... You knew bad things were going to happen as soon as they did it.

Never plow the field.

 

[RU848789]

You just saw it coming... You knew bad things were going to happen as soon as they did it.

Never plow the field.

I think almost everyone of our crew (about 2/3 of whom showed up), except mildone and his son, had left by halftime, and I recall screaming at the plow driver from the 2nd level, as if it would change anything, lol. I just kept wondering why you would ever make the field better for Tavon Austin, who proceeded to destroy us that 2nd half.

 

[mildone]

Plowing the field was the dumbest thing ever:

Yup. We were gonna finally beat them too. Still pissed me off when I think about it.

 

[mildone]

I think almost everyone of our crew (about 2/3 of whom showed up), except mildone and his son, had left by halftime, and I recall screaming at the plow driver from the 2nd level, as if it would change anything, lol. I just kept wondering why you would ever make the field better for Tavon Austin, who proceeded to destroy us that 2nd half.

It was a very low moment in RU football history. The day we plowed the field.