Latest on Snow Chances for Detroit Tigers Home Opener

• Get Patch’s daily newsletter and real-time news alerts.

METRO DETROIT, MI – On some years, shorts and T-shirts have been suitable for the Detroit Tigers home opener.

This year, you might want to wear your winter coat — and maybe even your snow boots — when the Tigers take on the New York Yankees at 1:08 p.m. Friday at Comerica Park.

Some weather forecasts call for a 40 percent chance of snow showers when the opening pitch is thrown out Friday, and raw, 42-degree temperatures and a brisk west-northwest wind gusting up to 18 mph.

Meh.

WWJ AccuWeather Meteorologist Dean Devore offered a ray of, if not sunshine, hope for baseball fans.

Though snow may measurable Friday night, it probably won’t start until after the game.

“We’re looking at periods of snow (Friday) night — that’s when the coldest air and that upper level feature comes across,” Devore said. “Maybe a coating of an inch or two and slippery conditions.”

Suburbs to the west and north of Detroit could see a little more, Devore said.

The rest of the Tigers’ home stand against the Yankees doesn’t any better, the National Weather Service said. the Saturday's game starts at 1:08 p.m. and Sunday's starts at 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s chilly forecast calls for a high near 34 and a brisk north-northwest wind with gusts as high as 26 mph. The chance for snow showers is 26 percent.

It warms up some on Sunday, with a high near 41, but there’s still a 50 percent chance of rain and snow showers, the weather service said.

The coldest Tigers home opener was in 1997 when it was 36 degrees — along with a 25 mph wind that put the wind chill in mid-20s, MLive.com reported.