Weather Report UNC homecoming and all that stuff

WELP, that was a fun week! I dunno about you guys, but beating GT THAT way was pretty satisfying (and on national television no less)!

I'm just giddy, but I digress for we have a team on our hands that can be a tricky opponent. UNC was one of the coastal favorites headed into the season (1 of 4 depending on who you talked to). There is definitely some talent on this team, and I wouldn't sleep on them despite them not looking so hot thus far. They may be especially motivated this week, because they were flat out embarrassed by a directional team in their state. It'd be like us losing to UVA - it just shouldn't happen, and I can imagine we'd be pretty pissed afterwards. That's why I'm worried UNC is going to come out swinging. Hopefully we do too for homecoming!

Now I'm here to do my thing, and I have some new tools to play with! I now have a legitimate forecasting and modeling tool called "Eurowx" (it was on sale) which means hopefully my reports can be more accurate and easier to make for the future! This couldn't have come at a better time because...well I can't get to many radars due to the whole government shutdown-abject-failure-thing (sorry to bring this convo to a football blog). Luckily, I've got these models and these mathematical programs are usually pretty accurate at predicting pressure flows and should be able to use them to generally predict anything beyond 4 day storm tracks. What does this all mean? well I can confidently say that this weekend is going to be CLEAR SKIES and cool fall football weather!!!

Earlier in the week, it looked as though that pesky Canadian Fall cold front was gonna bite us in the butt pretty hard around Saturday, but then some winds began pushing the front northward knocking its path away from us, and further northwards. Now if you had asked me as recently as a day or two ago, I would have almost guaranteed you that it was gonna rain but now it looks as though a high pressure system is heading southward and acting like a shield to that bad weather and rain! so all the rain and crappy weather is heading north.

I do have some goodish badish/news (depending on what kind of person you are). It's gonna be kinda chilly come Saturday afternoon - the fall has finally arrived! Now the goodish part of this news is since it's a noon kickoff (yay ACC) we will have the lovely opportunity to enjoy the high temperatures of the day! So around kickoff, I would expect temperatures to be in the mid to low 60s with a low of around 55. There's also more good news! Due to the high pressure system flowing in (I feel like a freaking broken record with this stuff seriously guys we've lucked out aside from the Marshall game), it should be another sunny or mostly sunny day in Blacksburg for gameday!

And it should be another ugly day in Hooville, because they're about to lose to ball state (I looked online and Ball is definitely not a state) so UVA's bowl chances will be looking rather slim... With 2 losses already, a pending loss to Ball St, 3 games against currently ranked teams (UMD, Clemson and the Canes), as well as an incoming tail-kicking courtesy of Foster and company to end the season, the Hoos might want to start practicing this little number for bowl season:

Seeing as the weather is kind of generic this weekend again (guess what, it's still nice), and the government shutdown has rendered any fun radar charts unavailable, I wanted to dive into some more obscure topics. If you're easily bored, skip down a paragraph.

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis was this crazy guy with an even crazier name. He was a man of science, who was terrific at staring at things

I mean just look at those eyes....kinda frightening

Apparently, when he wasn't trying to bore his eyes into other people, he sometimes liked to stare at water wheels instead. I can't blame him - can you imagine a more fun time?

Anyway, from his countless hours spent staring at spinning things, the man realized that things operate and move differently if they're being rotated in a circle. Since by at this point people had discovered we didn't live on a linear flat plane, Coriolis determined the same held true for the Earth. In other words, because the Earth is spherical and rotates, the winds on the northern hemisphere do not move the same way as the ones in the South...well they do but not on a map. You see, a map is flat and doesn't accurately portray the movements the winds make. So on a map, it appears as if winds in the South flow the opposite directions as the ones in the North (from East to West in the South, and from West to East in the North). There are also a few other variations, but we'll keep it simple for now. All of you who have heard the toilets in Australia flush backwards...well not quite they flush correctly, but the air moves backwards. So yeah Coriolis was a smart dude and loved him some water wheels. As for what impact this will have on our game... none what so ever.

Welp - back to the football field and how this all plays out:

I do believe that this lack of harmful and bad weather will not play into either teams advantage, both teams once again should be able to play without mother nature messing with us too much. I expect this to come down to execution and talent, which I believe gives us the slight edge. Up to this point we have executed to a near perfection on D and our offense looked very good last week as well. If we can execute that well every week, we're going to be very tough to beat. In addition, this little mini half extra week will give us more time to prepare for a UNC offense that made Bud change his defensive scheme and look a little silly last year (how much of that had to do with Giovani Bernard we don't know). Anywho, Bud will have these boys ready to play, and I'm sure and he feels like he has something to prove after the way last year went down. We need good corner play and our Linebackers have to bring their A-game as well, but I think we're more than capable of slowing this offense down this year. I believe our O will continue to grind games out and hopefully finally get that mojo going on the ground game without putting LTs life in danger every play. Fact of the matter is on a beautiful fall day in Blacksburg I'm feeling like this is going to be another tight affair.

VT - 23
UNC - 17
High - 80 degrees
Low - 55 Degrees
Winds - 5 MPH from the west to the east
Relatively clear skies
Relatively low humidity

PS shoutout to the Womens soccer team, they play tomorrow evening against Clemson, key game in ACC play and our women are ROLLING right now, just came off some really impressive play in a road trip in ACC play (top soccer conference) so go hokies and good luck to my friends and fellow hokies on the field go show em some love if possible!