Brian Manzullo

Detroit Free Press

Update: A check of the Friday forecast on weather.com Tuesday night shows the high is now 44 degrees.

We warned late last week that it could snow during this Friday's Detroit Tigers home opener.

Well, we have good news: The snow is mostly out of the forecast for now. The bad news is you're still going to need to bundle up.

Friday's forecast now calls for a high of 37 degrees with cloudy skies and 8-mph winds as the Tigers play the New York Yankees at 1:10 p.m. at Comerica Park. The chance of precipitation is 20% with "a few flurries or snow showers possible."

The low that night is 24 degrees with a 60% chance of snow showers and winds at 10-20 mph to the north.

If the weather at first pitch remains 37 degrees, Friday would be the coldest Tigers Opening Day since 2002, which was recorded at 37 degrees at start time (the Tigers lost 10-1 to the Cleveland Indians).

But if it's any colder than that - say, 36 degrees - it would be as cold, if not colder than the 2000 Opening Day game against the Seattle Mariners, the first-ever game at Comerica Park (the Tigers won 5-2). And that may be likley, according to the hour-by-hour Detroit forecast as of this morning, which states it will be 34 degrees by 2 p.m.

The last Tigers home opener to start at 34 degrees? 1996, at Tiger Stadium.

So we could be looking at the coldest Opening Day game in Comerica Park history. If that's the case, bring it on, right, Michigan?

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