{"id":308698,"date":"2025-08-22T13:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/308698\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:39:16","slug":"sunny-skies-forecast-for-bengals-vs-colts-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/308698\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny skies forecast for Bengals vs. Colts game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755722179_89_85719252007-081825-bengals-commanders-58.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor&#8217;s press conference Aug. 20<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor gives team updates on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Indianapolis Colts game.<\/p>\n<p>Let the tailgating begin! Mostly dry, warm weather is forecast for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/08\/20\/bengals-injury-updates-defensive-strategy-nfl-preseason-finale\/85747948007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/08\/20\/bengals-injury-updates-defensive-strategy-nfl-preseason-finale\/85747948007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; <\/a>home preseason game against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seasonably warm conditions and a dry airmass are expected on Friday, Aug. 22, and will persist through the weekend,\u00a0according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?lat=39.1090849&amp;lon=-84.5116516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Weather Service office in Wilmington<\/a>. Cloudy skies are also forecast for Friday, with highs in the low 80s along I-70 and upper 80s along the Ohio River.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds should scatter by Friday evening, but if thick overcast skies continue longer than expected, then temperatures may struggle to get out of the 70s.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Aug. 23, will be the warmest day of the weekend, which is perfect for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/schedule\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals vs. Colts<\/a> matchup at Paycor Stadium. Highs will reach the upper 80s and possibly low 90s along the Ohio River and mid-80s near the I-70 corridor.<\/p>\n<p>However, some scattered showers and storms may occur in the afternoon, particularly in north-central Kentucky and southern Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>A cooler, drier weather pattern is forecast to move through the area Saturday night, with dewpoints dropping through the day on Sunday, Aug. 24. While a shower cannot be ruled out, mostly clear skies and low atmospheric moisture will be likely Sunday through next week.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures will be mild during the day and much cooler at night during this period.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati 7-day detailed forecast<\/p>\n<p>Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Light north wind.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night: Mostly clear, with a low of around 65. Calm wind.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low of around 65. Light west wind.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night: Mostly clear, with a low of around 57.<\/p>\n<p>Monday: Sunny, with a high near 78.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night: Mostly clear, with a low of around 53.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 76.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night: Mostly clear, with a low of around 52.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 78.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night:\u00a0Mostly clear, with a low of around 52.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday:\u00a0Sunny, with a high near 82.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?lon=-84.52508937384367&amp;lat=39.09325397812245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Weather Service, Wilmington<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor&#8217;s press conference Aug. 20 Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor gives team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,2005,7,2004,392,2126,248,35431,6,15660,693,2132,2125,1952,1199],"class_list":{"0":"post-308698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-colts","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-indianapolis","15":"tag-indianapolis-colts","16":"tag-know","17":"tag-national","18":"tag-national-weather-service","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-service","21":"tag-ttp","22":"tag-ttp-what-we-know","23":"tag-we","24":"tag-weather","25":"tag-what"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115072700583292242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}