Rockies’ fans, make sure to grab your winter gloves along with your baseball gloves when heading to Coors Field on Friday because the home opener is going to be a cold one.
Despite a cruel tease of warmer days Wednesday and Thursday, with highs hovering in the mid-60s, a cold front is expected to blast through Denver Thursday night into Friday. The incoming storm is bringing with it high temperatures in the mid- to upper-30s on Friday, freezing rain and maybe even snow.
“It may be that annoying rain mixed with snow we get this time of year,” said Kyle Fredin, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.
While, of course, Colorado weather is tough to pin down days in advance, Fredin said if the weather is going to change, it’s going to get colder, not warmer.
The Atlanta Braves will have to brave the frigid temperatures alongside their Colorado opponents who, let’s be honest, should be used to this spring snow by now.
“It’s pretty typical for this time of year,” Fredin said. “We can snow easily all the way through mid-May, and April is one of our good moisture-producing months.”
First-pitch is scheduled for 2:10 p.m., but don’t count on afternoon sun peeking through to warm things up. Skies over Coors Field should be mostly cloudy, much like a ballgame beer might look once flurries of snow fall into the cup.
