On Monday night, Buffalo will be right on the edge of the snow bands. A change of just a few degrees of direction can mean a whole lot of snow in one town and nearly nothing a few miles away. Lake moisture is essentially scooped up and dumped downwind as snowfall.īecause these snow bands tend to be small in diameter, wind direction is key with lake-effect snowfall. This causes immediate and dramatic cloud formation over the lakes (almost like a summertime thunderstorm). The cold, Canadian air will be flowing readily over the relatively milder lake waters. Conditions on Monday night will be quite favorable for lake-effect snow band production. This time of year, before the lakes are frozen over, is primetime for lake-effect snow. Buffalo sits on the eastern shore of Lake Erie.

It will feel like 15-20 degrees for most of the game. By game time, temperatures will be in the low 30s with winds gusting 20-40 mph. Temperatures drop sharply in the evening. The forecast includes heavy rainfall during the day Monday in Buffalo before it ends in the afternoon. And, it will also likely be the worst weather either team has played in thus far. The Patriots will be playing the Buffalo Bills in what is undoubtedly the biggest game of the year, to this point, for both teams. That brings me to the big Monday Night Football game. Tom Brady has been replaced by Mac Jones, who, until recently, has spent the majority of his life playing football in Florida or Alabama.Īdam Vinatieri and Stephen Gostkowski have been replaced by Nick Folk, a native of California who played his college career in Arizona. Is that because they are better prepared than other teams? Or is it that they are more used to the winter weather? Either way, it sure seems as though the worse the weather, the better the Patriots play. It seems that all my memories of the Patriots playing in the snow, wind, or bitter cold are of them absolutely destroying the opponent. I’m sure if you asked him he would say something like, “It is what it is.” And to a certain extent, he’s right.īut, I would say that if anything, the weather has been a major factor in the Patriots success in the past few decades.

BOSTON (CBS) - Whether Bill Belichick admits it or not, weather plays a HUGE role in football this time of year.

Snow on the bluff nights ;yrics