At 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, the Buffalo Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers will take the field at Orchard Park in Buffalo, New York, for a playoff football game at the same time that a massive blizzard is set to hit the region.
In Iowa, snow has petrified pretty much the entire state three days before voters are set to weigh in on their choice for the Republican nominee for president in the long-anticipated first-in-the-nation caucuses. And while there isn’t supposed to be much snowfall on caucus day, the weather promises to be bitterly cold, with sub-zero temperatures in much of the state.
Both of these events are staples of American culture. Playoff football in Buffalo and the first presidential nominating contest of an election year that starts a sprint to Election Day in November.
There is always speculation about how extreme weather will affect a major event. And certainly one…
