Mid-American football weather by stadium
What a typical Saturday feels like at every Mid-American home stadium, all season and month by month. Weather score: 0 to 100, higher is better. Ideal is 100, Comfortable 90 to 99, Mixed 75 to 89, Rough 50 to 74, Harsh under 50.
Where Mid-American stadiums sit
One dot per stadium, by typical Weather score. The shaded band is where the middle half of all 167 stadiums fall; a dot to its right is milder than most.
- 80859095Rank of 167
- Ohio90 · 58th
- Miami (OH)89 · 67th
- Akron89 · 72nd
- Kent State89 · 73rd
- Toledo89 · 75th
- Massachusetts89 · 76th
- Central Michigan88 · 85th
- Ball State88 · 87th
- Bowling Green87 · 97th
- Buffalo87 · 106th
- Western Michigan87 · 111th
- Eastern Michigan86 · 119th
Mid-American, stadium by stadium
Weather score (out of 100) at each team’s home stadium. Lighter is milder, darker is rougher. Stadiums within about 2 points are effectively tied.
IdealComfortableMixedRoughHarsh
| Team | All | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OhioPeden Stadium | 90 | 90 | 93 | 86 |
| Miami (OH)Yager Stadium | 89 | 90 | 94 | 85 |
| AkronInfoCision Stadium | 89 | 92 | 94 | 82 |
| Kent StateDix Stadium | 89 | 94 | 93 | 80 |
| ToledoGlass Bowl | 89 | 93 | 93 | 81 |
| MassachusettsWarren McGuirk Alumni Stadium | 89 | 94 | 93 | 80 |
| Central MichiganKelly/Shorts Stadium | 88 | 95 | 93 | 78 |
| Ball StateScheumann Stadium | 88 | 89 | 93 | 82 |
| Bowling GreenDoyt L. Perry Stadium | 87 | 92 | 92 | 80 |
| BuffaloUB Stadium | 87 | 95 | 92 | 76 |
| Western MichiganWaldo Stadium | 87 | 92 | 91 | 78 |
| Eastern MichiganRynearson Stadium | 86 | 93 | 90 | 76 |
Biggest change through the fall: Buffalo, from 95 in September to 76 in November.
How these scores are made
- The score is the Weather score, out of 100, for the 200 minutes starting at kickoff. It is averaged over every regular-season Saturday from Aug 29 to Dec 6, 2018 to 2025, and over noon, 3:30 and 7:30 starts.
- Readings come from an airport weather station near each stadium, not from the stands. Shade, delays, smoke and indoor roofs are not in it. A few stadiums use an airport farther than the nearest one, because the nearest has too little history; their cards say how far.
- The comfortable stretch of 60 to 75°F is our choice. Moving it changes the order, mostly among the hot places.
- Stadiums near the same airport share a score. Ranks come with a range, because the eight-season average carries about a point of year-to-year noise; a single season can swing 2 to 3 points.
- An airport reading can run warmer or cooler than the stands, and most for a stadium by a lake or the coast. Some airports missed a few kickoff times to outages, and those are left out, not filled in.
- A few airports have a rain gauge that does not report rain. Where a working gauge sits within 25 km, the rain comes from it; where none does, the score has no rain term. The card says which.
- It describes what these Saturdays were. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about home advantage. Indoor stadiums are not scored.
Weather observations: National Weather Service, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University. Weather score version 2.2.