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weather.football turns weather into a number every football fan can read. This is what's live, and what's next.
25+Seasons scored
32NFL stadiums
289Player profiles
50+Pages & tools
🏈 Version 1.0JULY 2026 · FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE
The foundation is live
Everything you need to answer one question — how much will the weather shape the game? — for any NFL or college matchup, past or upcoming. The scoring engine is validated against decades of outcomes; the live game-day board activates at 2026 kickoff.
🎯 The core index
- The Weather Football Index (WFI) — a transparent 0–100 score from wind, precipitation, cold, heat and roof type. Full methodology & formula →
- Independent validation — across every outdoor NFL game since 1999, scoring falls from 43.8 points/game in calm weather to 30.0 at high impact. The index never sees the score. See the proof →
- The Index Family — branded sub-indices (Field Goal Shank, Run It, Snow Bowl, Swamp Monster) with historical leaderboards. Explore the family →
📡 Live tools
- Game Forecast — the live WFI at every stadium, hourly from weather.city NBM. Open the forecaster →
- What-If Simulator — drag temperature, wind & snow and watch the index and projected scoring move; compare two scenarios. Try it →
- Interactive Stadium Map — all 32 venues by climate, weather faced, or resilience, with an animated wind overlay. Open the map →
- Friday Night Lights — type any city, state or ZIP for a high-school football weather read. Find a game →
- Global search — jump to any team, player, stadium or tool from the homepage and index.
📊 Historical analysis
- The weekly board — browse & filter every game (2021–2025) by WFI, division, weather type and the Vegas total. Browse the board →
- Seasons browser — year-by-year, color-coded weather impact for every game. Go season by season →
- Weather Replay — relive football's most brutal games with box scores and conditions. Watch it unfold →
- The Weather Edge — how the betting market under-prices weather. See the edge →
- Human Markets — a prospective study of weather vs Kalshi & Polymarket. The markets angle →
🔎 Teams, players & coaches
- Stadium Weather Impact — every venue's climate and the warm-vs-cold acclimation gap. Climate mismatch →
- NFL team profiles — all 32 ranked by Weather Football Resilience. Team board →
- Player profiles — calm/windy/cold splits, game-by-game logs with filters, career weather tax, and CSV export. Search a player →
- The Hoodie Index — coaches ranked by adverse-weather record, with downloadable weather scouting notes. The coaches →
- The kicking game — field-goal accuracy and distance in wind, cold and snow. Kicking in weather →
- College football — conference splits, out-of-conference games and the CFP dome question. The college hub →
🧭 Discoverability & polish
- SEO landing pages — a dedicated page for every stadium plus topic guides (cold-weather games, wind & field goals, windiest games).
- Dark mode — a theme toggle in the nav, site-wide.
- Mobile & accessibility — responsive layouts, scrollable tables, skeleton loading states, ARIA labels and keyboard navigation.
- Persistent navigation — categorized menu, breadcrumbs and search on every page.
🔭 What's next
On the roadmap
- The live weekly board lights up at 2026 kickoff — every NFL and college game scored from the forecast.
- Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis folds precipitation into the historical record, lifting the all-time ceiling beyond today's temperature-and-wind scores.
- Current-week index leaderboards — live "this week's top Snow Bowl / Field Goal Shank candidates."
- Deeper college coverage — per-venue backfill and a college weekly board.
- Richer scouting reports — team- and matchup-level weather intelligence.
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Not affiliated with the NFL or NCAA. Historical data from nflverse & cfbfastR; forecasts from weather.city.