Illinois vs Northwestern
Land of Lincoln Trophy · Memorial Stadium and Ryan Field
86/100 Illinois
Mixed · 123rd of 167
Mixed · 123rd of 167
87/100 Northwestern
Mixed · 97th of 167
Mixed · 97th of 167
About even: the two stadiums are within 2 points of each other.
Where each sits
Weather score out of 100 on one line. The shaded band is where the middle half of all 167 stadiums fall.
- 80859095Rank of 167
- IllinoisMemorial Stadium86 · 123rd
- NorthwesternRyan Field87 · 97th
Month by month
Weather score by month and kickoff time. Lighter is milder, darker is rougher.
IdealComfortableMixedRoughHarsh
| Illinois | Northwestern | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noon | 3:30 | 7:30 | Noon | 3:30 | 7:30 | |
| All | 87 | 84 | 86 | 89 | 87 | 87 |
| Sept. | 83 | 86 | 99 | 90 | 90 | 97 |
| Oct. | 91 | 92 | 90 | 93 | 91 | 90 |
| Nov. | 86 | 77 | 72 | 84 | 80 | 74 |
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.