During the recent club World Cup in the US, a number of competitions were delayed or even postponed, and they threatened to blow Manchester United here during the pre-season tour.
Ruben Amorim and his players avoided a fierce storm after the training in Chicago on Thursday, but more wild again in the eastern US forced United of the O'Hare International Airport from the city to New York to New York to be postponed two hours on Friday evening.
United arrived in White Plains just before 10 p.m. and went to their hotel in New Jersey prior to the opening tour match on Saturday against West Ham in the Metlife Stadium.
Amorim and the team were at least able to rest in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Chicago while waiting for the flight to be planned again and left shortly after arrival at the airport.
Reporters who covered the Tour were not so lucky and some only arrived in New York in the early hours of Saturday because of the storms, while others were diverted around the weather system as far to the south as Nashville, which added more than an hour to their journey.
The prediction for Saturday is at least sunny and dry, which means that there should be no problems when United De Hammers meets in the Premier League Summer Series immediately after Bournemouth is applied to Everton at the same location.
COE's pitch for American investors
The United team may only spend 24 hours in the New York/New Jersey area, but the club has not prevented that to make a chance to surprise potential investors in the rebuilding of £ 2 billion Old Trafford.
While the team was preparing to fly from Chicago to the Big Apple, Lord Coe and Club managers attended a conference organized by the British consulate general in Rockefeller Plaza on Friday afternoon called The Placemaking: Investing in Sports Real Estate in the United Kingdom.
Although United is sure to guarantee public financing for the broader regeneration of the Old Trafford area, private investments will be needed to finance the new stadium with 100,000 seats itself.
Lord Coe, who led the Task Force Stadium and is now chairman of the mayor development that is set up to stimulate the project, and United Chief Operating Officer Collette Roche spoke to an audience of Wall Street Investment Banks and American Financiers.
United has been inspired by a number of American sports projects in their planning for what Sir Jim Ratcliffe presents as the 'Wembley of the North' – not least the beautiful Sofi Stadium in LA and Chicago Bears' Park Development.
United Chiefs will meet the Bears next week as soon as the team returns to Chicago prior to their second match against Bournemouth on Soldier Field.
Date set for Carrington reopening
Old Trafford is not the only reconstruction project among the minority property of Ratcliffe. The Carrington training complex of the club has undergone a redevelopment of £ 50 million and will officially reopen its doors during an opening ceremony on 8 August.
The upgrade took a year to complete and is aimed at offering a more elite environment for training and recovery. It has ended earlier and will be opened for 11 days before United starts the new season of Arsenal.
The first team continued to train in the women's and academy facility-as they did for a large part of last season and set up a gym on the covered pitches, but they will soon return to their redeveloped headquarters.
Insiders tell confidentially that the women and youth teams will also benefit from the improvements that have been made to their base while the men have been in situ.
Focus on cameraduo
Job security has been scarce since Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos took over the daily running of United, with no fewer than 450 fired.
So it was refreshing to see that camera operators Noel Grice and Keith Rhewee work for 25 years for the club on Friday, while Captain Bruno Fernandes spent some time after the training in Soldier Field to congratulate them on their performance.
The couple started in the same week a quarter of a century ago in 2000 and still goes strong on the club's tour.