Weather forecast for Dolphins’ Week 2 showdown with Bills

Tomorrow will be the very first Miami Dolphins home game of 2020, Dolphins fans! The Dolphins weren’t exactly able to get things off on the right foot last Sunday, seeing their season opener flop with an 11-point effort on offense against the New England Patriots. But in Week 2, the Dolphins welcome the Buffalo Bills to town and the Dolphins will try once again to get into the win column. The good news for Miami? Not only were there be fans in attendance at the game, Miami’s location offers them one of the stiffest home field advantages in all of football. And it will be in full effect for Sunday’s 1 PM EST kickoff.

Here is the current forecast for Miami’s Week 2 contest against their AFC East rivals, the Buffalo Bills.

Location: Hard Rock Stadium — Miami Gardens, Florida

• High temperature: 90 degrees

  • Feels like: 102 degrees

• Percent rain: 50%

• Humidity: 65%

• Wind: 10 mph

With all that South Florida heat, it sure feels like a great day for the Buffalo Bills to be wearing colors and for the Dolphins to be in all-white — which is exactly how Miami chose to tackle their uniform situation as the home team. Between the design of Hard Rock Stadium to keep the opposing team in the sun through most of the game and Miami’s experience working in the humidity versus the much more mild temperatures in Buffalo, there is a significant home field advantage to be had here for Miami. The high temperature this past week in Buffalo? 72 degrees. It only exceeded 70 on two days this past week.

So now it falls onto the Dolphins to keep this game close, let the humidity do its work and late in the game, Miami’s experience and conditioning in the heat can serve as a potential deciding factor. Miami will have to execute, but the avenue for success is there.