Rain for Chicago coming in buckets…

[PlainsUte]

Still quite a bit of uncertainity about Saturday night in DeKalb; if you’re flying in on Friday, be prepared for delays at ORD and MDW as heavy rains will be in the area Friday into Friday night, moving in from the southwest.  Rates as high as an inch-per-hour are expected Friday afternoon and evening ahead of the remains of Tropical Storm Gordon.  The center will be moving through on Saturday into Sunday – how wet it will be all depends how far south of a track it takes as it recurves from its current track moving SE to NW, towards an eastward moving track by the weekend, and how much drier air gets entrained by Saturday.  Definitely pack the ponchos, though.

Huskie Field has Field Turf, which is a modern grass turf with lots of sand beneath for drainage, hopefully it can take the onslaught without flooding the field or especially the surrounding facilities.  If I were in charge of facilities, I’d have some pumps and drying equipment standing by.

[KiYi-Ute]

[PlainsUte]

[Distantute]

P**sed off about this.  Flying in to Chicago Friday morning with son and was love king forward to showing him Chicago and then heading to dekalb for the game.  Worried now that the game may not even be played.

[PlainsUte]

To give you an idea of the uncertainity, one numerical forecast model, which just updated with this morning’s observations, has the bulk of the rain in a line from St Lous to Champaign-Urbana and south of there, with hardly any in the Chicago area.  So you can hope that one has the best track.

[therealu]

What does the lightning situation look like? Are we potentially looking at game delays or just a s**t ton of rain?

[PlainsUte]

Good question, but not something that can be answered 4 days in advance.  I can take a shot Thursday morning.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

Hard to say this far out, but Iowa State’s game got postponed this week due to lightening so its very possible.

[Ute Bc]

Had a friend attempt to fly to Chicago yesterday.  Flight was delayed 4 hours because of flooding on the runway in Chicago…

[GameForAnyFuss]

Flight delayed 4 hours? That’s a good day for Chicago! 

[RedUte]

Flying in Thursday. Spending time with my brother and folks for a couple days and then heading to the game. My brother and I are flying in from Seattle so hoping the rain passes. Was back in August and it rained like a mother.