The weather is favorable as East Carolina hosts Gardner-Webb tonight at 6 p.m. for the Pirates’ first home football game of the season. The forecast is calling for 79 degrees at kickoff with 67 percent humidity, a zero percent chance of precipitation and wind out of the west-southwest at three miles per hour. By game’s end, the temperature will drop to 74 degrees and humidity will increase to 82 percent. The chance of precipitation will remain at zero percent as the wind shifts to the south-southeast at two miles per hour.
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