Weather Takes Charge of 137th British Open

[Steve]

I saw some highlights of the first round of The British Open golf championship yesterday. The weather looked brutal for July. Highs were only in the 50's F. There was extreme wind, and of course some English rain. The event was at Royal Berkdale in Merseyside, England. Nineteen players with scores over 80. There were some big names in that group also. I love when the elements demonstrate our insignificance and challange our best atheletes during sports. Or even when weather influences other big events.

I guess where I'm going with this is for people to think of some events where weather significantly affected the outcome of something important.

A couple examples I thought of were:

The Ice Bowl (American Football playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers in sub-zero F temperatures)

I remember a Philadelphia Eagles American football game when I was a kid that was so foggy, you couldn't see across the field, but they kept playing.

A couple historical examples are that Nepolean and Nazi Germany were both thwarted by the Russian winter as much or more than by the army.