Leave the umbrella at home but wear a jacket.
According to the National Weather Service at White Lake Township, Opening Day for the Tigers will be partly cloudy with a high of 50 degrees and winds out of the northeast at 15 mph.
“It will be a little on the cool side,” meteorologist Matt Mosteiko said. “There’s no chance of rain. Our hourly temperature prediction for the time of the first pitch is 48 degrees.”
And that’s a welcome change from opening day in 2011; a wet, cold, rainy, gray, miserable mess that high of high of only 38 degrees and wind gusts of up to 23 mph.
“Friday will have sunny skies and a high of 56 degrees,” Mosteiko said. “There’s no chance of rain, and it will be a little breezy but not as bad as today.”
Weather fact: On April 5, 1982, a snowstorm hit southeast Michigan in the evening hours and continued into the sixth.
The storm left Detroit with 7.4 inches of snow, Flint with 7.1 inches, and Saginaw with 4.0 inches.
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