{"id":6007,"date":"2016-02-07T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2016-02-07T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T22:03:04","slug":"super-bowl-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/super-bowl-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the Super Bowl festivities today, here are some statistics on the weather extremes of past Super Bowl events, compiled by William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center.<\/p>\n

SUPER BOWL EXTREMES<\/strong><\/h1>\n

17 of the past 50 Bowls have been played outdoors<\/strong>, leaving it up to Mother Nature to add the element of surprise.<\/p>\n

18 of 49 bowls have had \u00a0trace or more of rain at the stadium<\/strong>, or nearby airport where official measurements are taken.<\/p>\n

2 Super Bowls had snow on game day<\/strong> (1982, 2006), while the 2000 game in Atlanta, Georgia played during an ongoing ice storm.<\/p>\n

WARMEST GAME TEMPERATURE<\/strong>
\n82\u00b0 \u00a0| 2003 | Buccaneers (48) and Raiders (21) | San Diego, CA |<\/p>\n

COLDEST (DOME GAME) HIGH TEMPERATURE<\/strong>
\n16\u00b0 \u00a0| 1982 | 49ers (26) and Bengals (21) | Pontiac, MI<\/p>\n

COLDEST (NON DOME GAME) HIGH TEMPERATURE<\/strong>
\n43\u00b0 \u00a0| 1972 | Cowboys (24) and Dolphins (3) | New Orleans, LA<\/p>\n

WETTEST SUPER BOWL<\/strong>
\n.92″ \u00a0| 2007 | Colts (29) and Bears (17) | Miami, FL<\/p>\n

SNOWIEST SUPER BOWL<\/strong>
\n1.1″ \u00a0| 2006 | Steelers (21) and Seahawks (10) | Pontiac, MI<\/p>\n

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A thick layer of fog covers the field during the NFC Divisional Playoff, a 20-12 Chicago Bears victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on December 31, 1988, at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. 1988 NFC Divisional Playoff Game – Philadelphia Eagles vs Chicago Bears – December 31, 1988 (AP Photo\/NFL Photos) via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of the Super Bowl festivities today, here are some statistics on the weather extremes of past Super Bowl events, compiled by William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center. SUPER BOWL EXTREMES 17 of the past 50 Bowls have been played outdoors, leaving it up to Mother Nature to add the element of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}