CLEVELAND, Ohio – Super 51 kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, where the New England Patriots face off against the Atlanta Falcons. And the game will have some pretty balmy weather.
Sunday’s high is 77 degrees; the low is still warm, at 66 degrees. There’s a slight, 30 percent, chance of showers, but they dip to below 20 percent after 6 p.m., right in time for the game. It’ll be quite humid, with an average 70 percent humidity, and dew points in the 60s. Winds will reach 15 mph from the south in the afternoon.
During game time, the high temperature will be about 69 degrees, 6.3 degrees above the average Super Bowl high temperature, with a low of 65 (depending on the length of the game), 21.6 degrees warmer than the average.
Super Bowl 51 temperature comparison to average.Kelly Reardon, cleveland.com
Conditions are looking dry, humid, and mostly cloudy during the game.
Check out the forecast:
6:30 p.m.
Temperature: 69 degrees
Chances of precipitation: 20 percent
Humidity: 78 percent
Winds: 10 mph, from the south
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8:00 p.m.
Temperature: 66 degrees
Chances of precipitation: 15 percent
Humidity: 85 percent
Winds: 10 mph, from the south
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9:30 p.m.
Temperature: 65 degrees
Chances of precipitation: 15 percent
Humidity: 90 percent
Winds: 10 mph, from the south
Sunday evening hourly temperature forecast.Kelly Reardon, cleveland.com
Most notable Super Bowl weather:
The coldest non-domed Super Bowl was in New Orleans, Louisiana, between the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins in 1972, when temperatures ranged from 43 to 24 degrees.
The coldest domed Super Bowl was between the San Francisco 49ers and the Cincinnati Bengals in 1982 in Pontiac, California, with temperatures ranging from 16 to 5 degrees.
The warmest Super Bowl of all time was in 2003, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers faced the Oakland Raiders in San Diego, California, and high temperatures reached 82 degrees.
The snowiest Super Bowl was in 2006, between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks in Detroit, Michigan, when 1.1 inches of snow accumulated on the field.
The wettest Super Bowl of all time was in Miami, Florida, in 2007 when the Indianapolis Colts played the Chicago Bears, and 0.92 inches of rain fell on the game.
Fun Super Bowl weather statistics:
- 17 of 50 played indoors (34 percent)
- 19 of 50 had a trace or more of rain (38 percent)
- 2 had snow on game day (1982, 2006)
- 1 played during an ice storm (2000)
- Outside games with high wind gust (1980, 1984, 1989,2007, 2016)
Previous Super Bowl weather, 1967 – 2016 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
Super Bowl weather, 1967-2016.NOAA Southern Region Headquarters Super Bowl weather, 1967-2016.NOAA Southern Region Headquarters
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Kelly Reardon is cleveland.com’s meteorologist. Please follow me on Facebook and Twitter @kreardon0818.
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