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As the "monsoon season" continues for Iowa, I thought I'd start a thread to discuss Saturday. Looks like there is a chance that SE Iowa could be seeing impacts from Tropical Storm Gordon Saturday evening.

Link to current NWS forecast for Iowa City.

4 PM kick means the game will run until roughly 8 PM. What happens if we get a repeat of this last Saturday with continual thunderstorms? Would we play on Sunday or scrap Iowa so we can focus soley on OU? ;)
 

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Looks like a lot of the heavy stuff, including thunder and lightning, will be during the week. Saturday looks to be rainy, but no lightning.
 
Forecast discussion from NWS Quad Cities:

Saturday through next Monday...All eyes will be on the eventual
track of the remnants of the tropical system Gordon this period and a
classic P.R.E. flooding scenario, with still plenty of medium range
model variance out there with the latest runs. This model discrepancy
will probably continue for the next several days, but trends will
have to be assessed. As for the current solutions, the 00z run ECMWF
is the most troubling with a direct hit on the CWA from Saturday
into Sunday, before pulling off acrs the heart of the GRT LKS by
Sunday night. The Euro as a result, produces widespread 2 to 5+
inches of rain acrs much of the CWA, although over at least a 36
hour period. With soaked grounds and thus plenty of run-off, these
ECMWF rains would still produce serious aggravation to ongoing river
flooding and new flash-flooding. On the other hand for Compare,
the 00z GFS just clips the south to southeast half of the CWA with 1-
3 inches of rain from late Friday night through Sat evening before
pulling away. Interestingly, a quick look at the latest GEM(which
with earlier runs was the most bullish with a direct hit and serious
flooding consequences), now shunts the brunt of the system to the
southeast of the area Friday night through Saturday night. Stay
tuned, many more model swings and a bumpy ride ahead. ..12..​
 
isutrevman said:
Considering the weather experts didn't know it was going to rain during the game as of Saturday morning, I wouldn't put much stock into predictions 4-5 days out.
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Definitely. I was just thinking of how many armchair quarterbacks were (misguidedly) killing Pollard for not (a) moving the gametime up (b) or rescheduling for Sunday and wondering if that plays into the narrative for this game.

ISU's week 1 cancellation could give Barta some heartburn considering the active weather pattern we seem to be stuck in and the possibility of getting leftovers from Gordon hitting us at gametime.
 
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They'll have a better handling of the chances the closer it gets. That being said, the NWS has been spot on for the past week of weather in eastern Iowa.

If Gordon tracks like they think it's going to, it will be a lot of rain, little to any truly severe weather, and windy to some extent. The best hope is some system pushes the remnants farther east or suppresses it farther south ahead of game time.
 
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bagdropper said:
They'll have a better handling of the chances the closer it gets. That being said, the NWS has been spot on for the past week of weather in eastern Iowa.

If Gordon tracks like they think it's going to, it will be a lot of rain, little to any truly severe weather, and windy to some extent. The best hope is some system pushes the remnants farther east or suppresses it farther south ahead of game time.
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Kinda blows my mind that football in the state of Iowa could be affected by a hurricane.
 
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