{"id":4211,"date":"2013-11-23T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2013-11-24T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T06:08:32","slug":"ice-station-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/ice-station-cyclone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Station Cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 12 hours, the National Weather Service has downgraded the expected temperature at kickoff in Ames <em>again<\/em>, to single digits. The previous record low kickoff temperature was 17\u00b0. This means that 2013 will have both the coldest <strong>and<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/espn.go.com\/ncf\/recap?id=332430066\">hottest games<\/a> in Jack Trice Stadium history. (The hottest in Ames was in 1955.)<\/p>\n<p>Des Moines will likely tie its mark for the second-coldest high temperature for Nov. 23; the airport recorded a high of 20\u00b0 about 2 AM, which was also the high in 1970. (Record: 13\u00b0 in 1898).<\/p>\n<p>Today is also the coldest game in Hawkeye home football history. The Iowa-Michigan kickoff was 17\u00b0 with a 21-mph wind; the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/2013\/11\/22\/record-cold-possible-for-hawkeyes-football-game-saturday\/\">previous coldest game was 23\u00b0 in 1926<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The coaches&#8217; interviews at halftime could be one word: &#8220;Brr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Officially 8\u00b0 at kickoff and 1\u00b0 at the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>ISU&#8217;s 34-0 win against Kansas is the Cyclones&#8217; first conference shutout since 2001 Baylor. For a second, you have to go all the way back to a 24-0 blanking of a pre-Snyder Kansas State in 1978, when Earle Bruce was coach and Dexter Green was in the backfield. This game is also the second shutout win in the Paul Rhoads era (2010 UNI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 12 hours, the National Weather Service has downgraded the expected temperature at kickoff in Ames again, to single digits. The previous record low kickoff temperature was 17\u00b0. This means that 2013 will have both the coldest and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/ice-station-cyclone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}