NFL Weather Report: Week 1 (2024)

FAQs

What weather will cancel a NFL game? ›

The NFL will delay, postpone, or even relocate games for certain types of weather events. But not for cold. According to the NFL, there is no threshold minimum temperature below which games won't be played.

High temperature will be in the upper-50s. HIGH impact. This will be a wet game. Expect rain throughout the majority of the game with it being heavy at times, currently looking at a 70% chance of rain during game time.

The coldest game in league history remains minus-13 for the 1967 NFL championship, when the Packers beat the Cowboys at Lambeau Field in a game that came to be known as the Ice Bowl. The wind chill that day was minus-48 degrees.

Update: Rain will move on throughout the game, but still wet and winds are going to be breezier than first thought, with sustained winds 15-20 mph and gusts a bit higher. The high for the day is 51, with a low of 41. There is an 83% chance of rain with 12 mph winds.

Adverse weather conditions, such as hurricanes, severe storms, or heavy snowfall, can force games to be postponed or rescheduled. These changes can be challenging for teams, players, and fans who have made travel plans and purchased tickets in advance.

While canceling games was extremely common prior to this date, since that year, the NFL has only twice canceled regular season games, in both cases for labor disputes between the league and the National Football League Players Association. ... Two preseason games in 2017 and 2021 were canceled for weather.

The NFL in a statement cited “public safety concerns in light of the ongoing weather emergency in western New York” for moving that game from Sunday to Monday. The decision was made “in consultation with” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, the NFL said.

There are no rain delays in the NFL. Games are not cancelled or postponed for fog, or snow. Lightening is the only weather event that will cause a delay.

Soldier Field, home to the Chicago Bears, has a seating capacity of 61,500, making it the smallest stadium in NFL. Designed in 1919 and completed in the 1920s, the Field serves as a memorial to Americans soldiers who died in past wars.

Super Bowl VI in New Orleans is the coldest Super Bowl in history. Played at Tulane Stadium on Jan. 16, 1972, the game had kickoff temperature of 39 degrees.

How cold was the Ice Bowl in 1967? ›

By 9 AM Sunday, December 31, 1967, the temperature plummeted to minus 16°F with wind chill values falling to 38 below zero. During the game, actual temperatures ranged from -12°F to -14°F with wind chills (based on the new wind chill index) ranging from 33 to 37 below zero, making it the coldest game in NFL history.

And after pregame warmups on Sunday, the decision was made: Hill will be inactive for the Dolphins' game against the New York Jets.

The Short Answer: A seven-day forecast can accurately predict the weather about 80 percent of the time and a five-day forecast can accurately predict the weather approximately 90 percent of the time. However, a 10-day—or longer—forecast is only right about half the time.

“If weather dictates, heated benches must be available to both teams and activated two hours prior to kickoff,” according to the league's rules. However, there is nothing in NFL guidelines which suggests that, if the weather drops below a certain point, the game should be postponed.

NFL's cold-weather game day protocol

Snow and ice must be removed from stadiums before each game, according to the NFL's game operations policy manual. “This applies to the field, stands/seats, aisles, pedestrian ramps, walkways, parking lots, etc. This also applies to the sidelines,” the manual says.

Gridiron football almost always plays through even the heaviest of rain or snow, only canceling, relocating or delaying a game in the event that conditions are so severe as to be unsafe for spectators to attend (most commonly in the event of a lightning storm or hurricane, though usually the latter gives enough time to ...

(WDAF) — Inclement weather across the United States has had a major effect on multiple Wild Card games in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers-Buffalo Bills matchup was postponed to Monday at 3:30 p.m. CT due to major snowstorm in Buffalo, New York, that included extreme wind gusts.