Weekly Weather Report + Hurricane Florence News

Wadup fam, as promised here is this weeks weekly weather report, I'm going to keep it brief so I can discuss the elephant in the room (Hurricane Florence) as well as the possibilities of where it will land, what to watch for, and how little sleep ill be getting in the next week as I track this mofo.

me by the time hurricane season is over

For starters this weekend. Theres a pretty strong cold front thats going to be blowing into the area bringing with it a fair amount of rain. I do disagree slightly with the NWS in thinking that the rain will start in the morning and last all day but I could totally see it happening (its kind of semantics) but I definitely see it being an issue for kickoff and the rest of the game. Its gonna be sloppy and could be as much as a quarter of an inch of rain over the course of the day. Expect heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout, its not gonna be particularly pretty. But I reiterate Fuente knows how to coach around the elements so I dont think we're going to see a disaster to another in state rival on a gross and rainy day on short travel. A certain part of that memory still lives in the back of my mind though

Final forecast

Kickoff temperature 78
Cloudy
Showers/thunderstorms pretty likely
Light wind
all around mud bowl
hopefully lots of drinking and tailgating

Bring your umbrellas for this one folks, I think the rain will persist in the area throughout Sunday as well. and if you're taking the random lot parking make sure you bring a tank to get out of the inevitable mud pit

Live look at the post game parking lots

Ok now for the hurricane stuff, so I've seen a ton of questions regarding when is it gonna hit...where is it gonna hit...how will this impact me? I dont want to go running down the middle of norfolk ringing a bell yet telling everyone to get the flippidy fudge out of town because frankly...if im wrong ill look like an idiot. The models are still super far out and as I've mentioned here before theres a TON of variables that can influence these things

Example: oh hey look there was a breakage in the clouds that we didnt see coming, more sunlight got through in eastern virginia which in some way shape or form effected the ridge which will stear the hurricane east.

Anyone who actually knows weather terms knows I basically just pulled a bunch random meteorlogical terms out of my ass and put it on paper, but my point is lots of things are connected and these things can easily change. Wind speeds are constantly changing, wind directions are constantly changing, temperatures can greatly influence things, pressure....I could go on for hours, this is basically describing chaos theory. (Ya know the one about butterflies flapping their wings)

little known fact randy marsh destroyed half of Indonesia doing this by creating a bunch of hurricanes... /s

IF, and thats a "VT wins the next 30 nattys" level if, nothing changes in the forecast and the Euro is the only one you trust/believe it will absolutely wreak havoc on the eastern coast of NC and the 757. The Euro thinks it could drop as many as 6" in the VA beach area, but again the Euro can tend to overreact when its a ways out

Next Thursday evening

However this completely ignores other models, typically they follow some sort of trend so you can kind of take the "mean model path" and infer that combined all of the models and all of their strengths and weaknesses kind of even out.

This still spells trouble for the east coast but really could be trouble for either Jersey or VA beach. Basically what I'm saying is if you live in the mid atlantic or higher on the east coast be alert, I'll post plenty of updates probably starting saturday and running until thursday before landfall. A lot of things will become much more clear at that point. IF the euro is right I wouldn't be shocked to see ECU come up to da burg a few days early for practice before the storm hits, but I highly doubt it will be another hurricane game. Be patient with me folks I promise I'll give details when I get information, if you have any questions dont hesitate to ask. I love informing the public and talking science and answering questions.

GO HOKIES!!!!