SanAngeloState

Blizzard to dump 12 inches or so and will be ongoing sunday afternoon to monday morning over providence.

AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Blizzard Looms for Philadelphia, New York City, Boston

It would be funny for them to get back and unable to get out of the airport due to too much snow.

Maybe spend Monday there too and come back Monday night, late.

They better win or it will be a long weekend!

convertedpatsfan

I don't care if it snows for every single Pats game the rest of the way. In fact, I hope it does.

CheeseMonkeys

Football+Snow=

SanAngeloState

No, there is no snow in Buffalo, or very little.

There will be snow on the way back possibly making it so they have to spend a whole extra day in a Ramada Inn in Buffalo NY. Not fun for the guys.

Or risk crashing the plane in a driving blizzard.

Gwedd

Actually, flying in the snow, and even with certain wind conditions isn't the problem. The big problem with blizzards is visibility during the approach to the runway. All airports have a minimum distance for visibility, the distance at which the pilot must be able to visually see the runway. When you go below those minimums, they force you to divert, or climb and hold if they think conditions will improve shortly. You can take off with virtually no visibility, and also fly, and most of your approach to the field can be done on instruments. However, there is a line that you can't cross. I only had to divert a half dozen times when I was in the Navy, and in all but one or two of those times the cause was weather below minimums. the other two were icing and extreme crosswinds.

PATSNUTme

I guess that I don't have the same sense of humor that you do.

You think it would be funny for the NE Patriots team, who spent part or most of Xmas away from their families traveling to Buffalo, to be stranded at the airport?

SanAngeloState

Not funny ha ha. Well it would be a good bonding experience anyway. Maybe they'll land in Albany and take a bus to providence.

Albany might be out too though.

They might be there til Tuesday. Which is kind of funny cause that's the name of a group from the 1980s.

upstater1

They'll drive home, it's only a 7 hour drive, plus they won't have hotel rooms in Buffalo. Tens of thousands are coming in for the World Junior Hockey Championships. There are no hotel rooms whasoever available anywhere.

ctpatsfan77

On a quasi-related note, any guesses on how Mr. Comeback (Vick) does in the snow and wind?

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Nikolai

A seven hour drive in good weather, of course. Massachusetts, especially areas east of I-495, is going to be terrible.

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