{"id":659159,"date":"2026-04-02T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659159\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:58:21","slug":"warm-springlike-temperatures-for-detroit-tigers-opening-day-at-comerica-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659159\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm, springlike temperatures for Detroit Tigers Opening Day at Comerica Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time to grab a hot dog, and a cool beverage, and enjoy the crack of the bat at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n<p>Opening Day in Detroit is always eventful, whether it&#8217;s cold or not.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we&#8217;re heading for warmth with wind and even some sunshine breaking through the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Our forecast is for 69 degrees at 1:10 p.m. with winds out of the west-southwest at 15-20 mph and partly to mostly cloudy skies.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t always the case.<\/p>\n<p>When looking at weather data for opening day in the city, the closest climate location is Detroit City Airport, but not all data for a day syncs up perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at the past 10 years of Opening Days, we found that clouds are common along with wind (over 15 mph), but temperatures vary.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tigers-opening-day-forecast-history.png#.png\" alt=\"tigers-opening-day-forecast-history.png \" height=\"392\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                NEXT Weather\/CBS Detroit<\/p>\n<p>The one year that stands out, of course, is 2020, when the COVID pandemic pushed opening day back to the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>Without that outlier year, temperatures range from the low 30s all the way to the upper 50s, with this year likely being the warmest in a decade at first pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s almost time to grab a hot dog, and a cool beverage, and enjoy the crack of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,7214,147,53,2583,4,594,51507],"class_list":{"0":"post-659159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-comerica-park","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-detroittigers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-tigers","15":"tag-weather-forecast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116336179838999133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}