The Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints are usually the kind of teams you expect to worry less about weather than most. They play in domes.
They’re built for controlled conditions. But Sunday’s game at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans may not stay that simple.
An area in the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico has been named Invest 92L, and it’s beginning to draw attention as the next possible weather problem in the Gulf. Over the next couple of days, it is being forecast to organize into at least a tropical depression and move into the Gulf.
If it develops enough, it could become Tropical Storm - or even Hurricane - Isaias. The exact track is still uncertain, but the early signs point toward the Gulf Coast.
That’s where things get interesting for the Vikings and Saints.
The 12Z model runs this morning, shown in the “spaghetti models” from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, have the system sitting right off the coast or fairly close to it by the 96-hour mark, which is early Saturday morning. It’s not expected to have enough time to grow into a major hurricane, but it could still be strong enough to create problems.
That could matter for a team trying to land at Louis Armstrong International Airport, and if the system slows down and doesn’t reach the area until later in the day, the situation could get even more complicated. In that case, the weather could potentially affect the game itself.
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