Blizzard in Buffalo? Brutal weather expected as playoff football games kick off

Accuweather ^ | Jan 11, 2024 12:03 PM CST | By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and staff writer

[unread]

"Give yourself an abundance of time to get from home to the stadium, and expect very slow-moving traffic as well as near zero visibility underneath the strongest lake-effect bands"

And remember to charge your electric car battery before you start out.. :)

[trebb]

Yep - current forecast is for cold (15 degrees in AM) and up to 2.1 inches - hardly a blizzard for that area in January....

[Made In The USA]

From personal experience at that stadium, you learn how to dress warm, and when 80,000 fans are celebrating a big play.... it’s easy to forget the weather.

Go Bills / Go Cowboys, some great games this weekend.

[twister881]

Yes, yes, the weather — but the most urgent question is will Taylor Swift be at the Chiefs game?
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[dfwgator]

Dang that Global Warming.

[Red Badger]

Yes, dressed like a demented Eskimo!.........................

[Red Badger]

There will be ‘Global Warming’ in the end.

God said so...................The Earth will melt with fervent heat!..........

According to 2 Peter 3:10, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, and both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

[Red Badger]

True, and I’m glad.

I bet NBC won’t get anywhere’s near the $110 Million they paid the NFL for this ONE GAME.

This will be the last time they do that................

[Red Badger]

I want a pineapple plantation................in Minnesota!............

[discostu]

Woohoo. Since my Steelers are clearly drastically weaker at QB I’m pro weather that negates good QBing. Also snow games are just fun... on TV.

[38special]

In the age of domed stadiums, why these northern teams don’t build one is perplexing.

[bravo whiskey]

This might be a reason to watch the game.

[Red Badger]

Yes, and we were taught in school, in the 60's for me, that because of the Earth's slightly elliptical orbit, the Earth is actually closest to the Sun at the Winter Solstice when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun.

But due to the 'Precession of the Poles' and some other minor factors, like Earth wobbling on its axis, eventually, after 26000 years or so, the Northern Hemisphere will be tilted towards the Sun when the Earth is closest to it, and away from the Sun when it's furthest from it.

Then the Ice Age will be here ... again, as it has for multiple times in Earth's geologic history.

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“Earth’s orbit”?

I suppose you even believe that the Earth isn’t flat.

[Red Badger]

The Earth isn’t flat, but the Universe is..................

[trebb]

Yep - I grew up in Rochester - during Jan and Feb, I carried a snowmobile outfit in the car because my girlfriend lived out in the sticks - and with some of the country roads, getting stranded was a real possibility.

[Made In The USA]

That’s where I’m originally from as well. Always packed supplies in the trunk in the winter, a good lake effect blast could turn a car ride into an adventure.

[MayflowerMadam]

I grew up a few miles south of Buffalo on Lake Erie. The lake effect snow. So dangerous.

Later, I moved to Alaska. That was like a day at the beach compared to NY.

[IndyTiger]

Some congressmen are already talking about reviewing the antitrust exemption the league has if more games, especially playoff games, are sent to streaming only.

[discostu]

They could try but they’d fail. Their anti-trust exemption is part of the Sports Broadcasting Act. And that came AFTER a Supreme Court ruling that ruled that because of the collective nature of sports they are allowed to make horizontal agreements pooling broadcasting rights. If they tried to remove it from 1 sport for 1 method of broadcast the NFL would take them to court and win.