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Originally Posted by po-boy
Weird that it ranks Miami worse than Chicago, and Tampa worse than Philly. If you asked me where I'd rather go see a game October through January, Florida will be way higher than those cold cities...
Me too, these can have virtually identical weather day to day
Today
Right Now
Philadelphia 70 Sunny, High 70, Low 59 (chance of participation 70%)
Eat Rutherford 70 Sunny, High 70, Low 59 (chance of participation 70%)
33.9 Philly
33.1 Baltimore/Washington
31.8 New York
I mean, on the grand scale here, that's not a whole lot of difference...but it's curious to me how the city in the middle (geographically) is the high one. You'd think it would be the average between the two.
September-January weather stats for each of these locations (I'm using wikipedia, btw, so I'm using NYC rather than NJ and DC rather than MD)...
Average high/low September
-Baltimore 80.9/63.7
-Washington 79.3/61.8
-Philadelphia 76.7/60.9
-New York 74.7/60.3
Average high/low October
-Baltimore 69.7/51.6
-Washington 68.0/49.6
-Philadelphia 65.7/48.7
-New York 63.5/49.6
Average high/low November
-Baltimore 58.7/42.1
-Washington 57.3/40.0
-Philadelphia 54.8/35.9
-New York 53.1/41.0
Average high/low December
-Baltimore 48.5/33.5
-Washington 47.0/32.0
-Philadelphia 44.2/30.6
-New York 42.9/31.6
Average high/low January (though Washington should be excluded, since they almost never play in January)
-Baltimore 44.1/29.4
-Washington 42.5/27.3
-Philadelphia 39.0/25.5
-New York 38.0/26.2
Average precipitation (total for period)
-New York 20.52
-Baltimore 17.08
-Philadelphia 16.62
-Washington 16.30
Average snowfall (total for period)
-New York 11.3
-Baltimore 10.3
-Philadelphia 8.8
-Washington 8.0
Again, this is using wikipedia...so some of the stats were taken at airports, others downtown (Philly & Washington @ the airport, NYC and Baltimore DT). This might affect certain things, like Philly having a greater variance between highs and lows...as NYC experiences the nighttime heat island effect.
Other than that, though, I fail to see how NYC is the clear winner in this category. Colder highs than the other cities, and more snow and rain.
Weird that it ranks Miami worse than Chicago, and Tampa worse than Philly. If you asked me where I'd rather go see a game October through January, Florida will be way higher than those cold cities...
Chicago's not really bad for most of the NFL season. The start of the season sees highs around 80 with diminished humidity. October has temps from 60 to 70 as highs, November from 45 to 60, and December from 35 to 45 degrees on average. Of course averages smaverages really. It could be 60's in December and 90's in October, and in the past it's even gotten below freezing by Halloween.
The average date for the city to get 1" or more of snowfall is December 2nd, which is already about 75% of the way through the football season. Even then, it normally only snows 1" or more a few days per month.
To be fair to Buffalo though, their stadium isn't even in Buffalo. It is in Orchard Park...And Giant stadium is in Jersey...And I'm a fan of the Jersey Giants....Although I hate Eli,....Just thought I'd add that..
I was surprised to see Chicago so far from the worst. It's FRIGID in Chicago in the winter. I'm surprised KC and Miami have worse weather (though in terms of heat, Miami can be brutal). Chicago's even colder than New England. The rest is about what I would expect.
I went to a game in SF last November. Not bad. "brisk" but not frigid. Sit through a December game at Gillette when it's 24 degrees and windy and then tell me Candlestick is rough. Frankly, if I'm playing football, 50 degrees and a breeze is ideal. 24 degrees and wind and it hurts to breathe.
For the record, I've been to some snow games. Not as bad as everyone would think. The worst is when you get back in the car and the snow melts and you're soaking wet. I'd take a snow game over no snow and the same cold temperatures most times. Unless you're talking blizzard conditions. I'd imagine that would be brutal.
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I was surprised to see Chicago so far from the worst. It's FRIGID in Chicago in the winter. I'm surprised KC and Miami have worse weather (though in terms of heat, Miami can be brutal). Chicago's even colder than New England. The rest is about what I would expect.
I went to a game in SF last November. Not bad. "brisk" but not frigid. Sit through a December game at Gillette when it's 24 degrees and windy and then tell me Candlestick is rough. Frankly, if I'm playing football, 50 degrees and a breeze is ideal. 24 degrees and wind and it hurts to breathe.
For the record, I've been to some snow games. Not as bad as everyone would think. The worst is when you get back in the car and the snow melts and you're soaking wet. I'd take a snow game over no snow and the same cold temperatures most times. Unless you're talking blizzard conditions. I'd imagine that would be brutal.
chicago is only a few degrees colder on average in january. 4 degrees to be exact if going by averages. Compound that with the higher snowfall and slightly windier conditions in Boston, I could see why places like New England would be ranked worse than Chicago. Its really a toss up though. On any given season they are probably very similar.
chicago is only a few degrees colder on average in january. 4 degrees to be exact if going by averages. Compound that with the higher snowfall and slightly windier conditions in Boston, I could see why places like New England would be ranked worse than Chicago. Its really a toss up though. On any given season they are probably very similar.
This is true. Boston's wind is borderline unbearable on some days in the winter. Gillette is out in the sticks too (away from the water) where it's generally a little bit colder than Boston proper.
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