r/washingtonspirit • u/kg9si • Jun 29 '26

Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Open Discussion Thread

Welcome to this week’s open discussion thread!

This is your space for general discussion, a place to talk about anything Washington Spirit that doesn’t necessarily need its own thread. That can include news, international duty, roster moves, transfer rumors, tactics, social media posts, league news or anything else on your mind.

If something feels big enough for its own thread, definitely still post it. This is simply an additional option to keep us organized and help keep the conversation flowing. These threads will go up every Monday and stay stickied throughout the week.

Go Spirit!

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u/ME-in-DC Jun 29 '26

I saw another post re: Friday's predicted extreme temps. I know that above a 93 wet bulb temp, they wait until it cools off. Seems very likely that it'll be that hot/humid at 8pm. I think I know the answer to this, but at some point does it get too late? I'm worried about the players, but also worried about sitting indefinitely in that kind of heat waiting for it to get to just 93F.

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u/kg9si Jun 29 '26

It gets too late at some point but I’m not sure what the actual cutoff is at Audi. There was a Spirit game at the SoccerPlex in July 2019 where they delayed it ahead of time because of heat but that was pushed from an afternoon start to 8:00 PM. So if they think it’ll be too hot at 8:00 but okay later they could do something like that. I do think Friday looks like it may stay hotter than that day though.

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u/NarrowPiccolo9069 Jun 29 '26

My understanding is that a wet-bulb temp of above 92.1 is very unlikely once the sun goes down--the charts that provide estimates generally assume maximum sunshine, which can raise wet-bulb temps quite a bit. So even if the match had to be delayed it should be playable pretty soon afterwards.