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OUTDOOR SPORTS · LIGHTNING ALERTS FOR OUTDOOR SPORTS

Suspend on evidence, not on a judgement call

Every suspension is a judgement call someone has to defend afterwards. Flash makes it a measurement.

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An empty ballfield infield with the tarp rolled up, under floodlights
Lightning predicted · suspend playIllustrative example · not live weather

Skye · ask in plain language

Ask the question your crew actually asks.

Pick your industry. Skye, Flash Weather's AI weather agent, answers from the same 1×1 km forecast, refreshed as often as every two minutes, then acts in the tools you already run.

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Your decision

  • Go / No-go
  • Reschedule
  • Alert the crew
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Questions crews ask

Illustrative example · not live weather

5 dayWBGT outlook, hour by hour, on your own fields

The Flash heat risk gauge reading 84 WBGT in the Caution band

Current heat risk · 84 WBGT, Caution

Make the heat call in the office, not on the sideline

WBGT hour by hour and five days out. A handheld reading tells you this minute. Flash forecasts the band you will be in at 4 PM, at 5 PM, and on Thursday, modeled on your own fields so the number is not borrowed from an airport across town. Work-to-rest ratios, water breaks and start times get planned before anyone dresses out.

See Heat and WBGT

Heat one week, frost the next. Both called the day before.

Two weather calls run all season. One is whether the heat is safe for the athletes standing on the field. The other is whether the field itself survives the morning. Both tend to get made on a reading taken at the wrong moment, or on a regional number from an airport miles away.

  • The hot half

    Forecast the band, not the reading

    WBGT hour by hour and five days out, so work-to-rest ratios, water breaks and start times are set before anyone dresses out.

  • The cold half

    Keep traffic off the field until the frost has gone

    Frost probability by day, banded from none to high, with a burnoff time: the hour the surface is safe to use. Traffic on a frosted surface crushes the crown of the plant, and the damage does not show until the thaw.

  • Both halves

    Modeled on your own fields

    Prediction, not detection: Flash forecasts before conditions arrive, at 1 km, on a 2-minute cycle, which is the difference between planning the morning and reacting to it.

A burnoff time, not just a low temperature

A closer look at the week strip. Saturday is flagged high at 80 percent, and the frost clears at 9 AM. You know the hour the surface is safe to use, so field access is set in the office rather than on the sideline.

  • High
  • Medium

Shaded frost is tracked separately, because the corner that sits in shadow clears last.

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE · NOT LIVE WEATHER

A closer look: Saturday at 80 percent frost probability, flagged high, with the burnoff times for the week

In the field

What do the people running the sites say?

The people making the call are outside, with a sky like this over them.

  • Flash Weather quote card: Nick Williams, Big 12 Director of Competitions, beside the Big 12 Conference mark

    “Flash Weather AI has completely transformed how we’ve operated events this year, from the spot-on lightning prediction and return-to-play guidance, to pinpoint timing from the Flash forecasts while looking at incoming precipitation and severe weather. The stress of adjusting event schedules on the fly is now a thing of the past. There’s been simply no contest to Flash AI’s real-time insights since adding it to our event workflows.”

    Events & outdoor sportsNick WilliamsDirector of Competitions · Big 12 Conference

Who brings Flash into outdoor sports, and why

The titles that make the call, the problem they describe on the first conversation, and where they gather.

Who buys

  • Athletic Director
  • Athletic Trainer
  • Conference staff, at the league level

The problem on the first call

  • Lightning go/no-go calls, and the time lost to the 30-minute rule.
  • Athlete heat safety: WBGT by playing surface.

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Questions athletic directors and athletic trainers ask

Yes. The WBGT outlook runs hour by hour and five days out on your own fields, so the band for a 4 PM practice on Thursday is on the screen today, not on a handheld at 3:55.

Yes. Frost probability is forecast by day and banded from none to high, with a burnoff time for the hour the surface is safe to use, and shaded frost tracked separately.

It gives the rule a forecast to work from: rather than counting after a flash, play is suspended before the first strike is possible.

The Big 12 Conference, where Flash is the official weather safety provider, and the NAIA, which named Flash its Official Weather Monitoring & Alert System.

Flash is designed for real-time decision-making during active operations. Whether it’s a game, job site, or event, you can monitor conditions, receive alerts, and make immediate calls on delays, pauses, or safety protocols.

Flash helps improve safety by giving you earlier visibility into dangerous conditions. Instead of reacting to weather after it arrives, you can anticipate risks like lightning and extreme heat and take action sooner to protect people, operations, and assets.

Lightning refreshes every 2 minutes and hail every 5 minutes, so you are always working with the most current and actionable information available.

Flash provides real-time and predictive alerts, including lightning detection and proximity alerts, first strike and all-clear notifications, lightning probability forecasts (1-hour and 5-hour), and heat risk and environmental condition alerts. These alerts are designed to help you act before conditions become dangerous.

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See your own sites on the map before the next storm.

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