Can an app replace an on site weather station?

For lightning, heat, UV, and severe weather alerts at the fields you monitor, often yes, and without hardware. What an app cannot do is measure WBGT at your field or sound a horn there. Sports Safe estimates WBGT from weather data, so where your state requires an approved instrument for the reading of record, pair the app with a handheld WBGT meter.

Does Sports Safe work with a handheld WBGT meter?

Yes. On the Organization plan, coaches log meter readings in the app's compliance log, each one timestamped and locked once saved. Sports Safe can also learn a correction for each field from those readings, and a correction only ever makes the field's reading more cautious.

How much does it cost compared with buying hardware?

There is nothing to buy or install. The Team plan is $24.99 a month or $249 a year for 5 monitored fields at a time, and the Organization plan is $99.99 a month or $999 a year for 10, with compliance tools.

Weather safety for every field, without the hardware

Sports Safe watches lightning, heat, UV, and severe weather at each field you monitor and alerts your staff when conditions change. There is no station to buy, mount, or maintain, and your coverage goes wherever your teams play.

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App based monitoring and an on site station, side by side

A station watches the spot where it stands. Sports Safe watches each field you monitor, wherever it is.

Equipment
Sports Safe: None. Runs on the phones your staff already carry, plus a web dashboard.
On site station: A station to buy, mount, power, and keep maintained.
Fields covered
Sports Safe: Any field you add by pin, GPS, or address, across town or across the country. Monitor 5 at a time on Team or 10 on Organization, and add more for $3 a month each.
On site station: The site where the station is installed.
Away games and tournaments
Sports Safe: Monitor wherever you are standing for 3 hours on any paid plan.
On site station: Stays at the site where it is installed.
Lightning
Sports Safe: Strike by strike distance to each field, your own clear the field radius from 6 to 15 miles, and an all clear only after 30 quiet minutes.
On site station: Depends on the system and its lightning data.
Heat
Sports Safe: Estimated WBGT and heat index for each field, checked against your state's heat chart where Sports Safe has one.
On site station: Measured WBGT at the station's location, if it has a WBGT sensor.
How alerts arrive
Sports Safe: Push alerts to the phones of the account owner and every admin covering that field, each choosing their own alerts. On iPhone, clear the field alerts can sound even on silent.
On site station: Often an outdoor horn or strobe at the site, plus notifications.
Getting started
Sports Safe: Up and running in minutes: add your fields and turn on monitoring. Pay monthly with no long term contract, and cancel anytime.
On site station: Purchase, installation, and setup at each site.

Sports Safe compared with an on site weather station
Topic	Sports Safe	On site weather station
Equipment	None. Runs on the phones your staff already carry, plus a web dashboard.	A station to buy, mount, power, and keep maintained.
Fields covered	Any field you add by pin, GPS, or address, across town or across the country. Monitor 5 at a time on Team or 10 on Organization, and add more for $3 a month each.	The site where the station is installed.
Away games and tournaments	Monitor wherever you are standing for 3 hours on any paid plan.	Stays at the site where it is installed.
Lightning	Strike by strike distance to each field, your own clear the field radius from 6 to 15 miles, and an all clear only after 30 quiet minutes.	Depends on the system and its lightning data.
Heat	Estimated WBGT and heat index for each field, checked against your state's heat chart where Sports Safe has one.	Measured WBGT at the station's location, if it has a WBGT sensor.
How alerts arrive	Push alerts to the phones of the account owner and every admin covering that field, each choosing their own alerts. On iPhone, clear the field alerts can sound even on silent.	Often an outdoor horn or strobe at the site, plus notifications.
Getting started	Up and running in minutes: add your fields and turn on monitoring. Pay monthly with no long term contract, and cancel anytime.	Purchase, installation, and setup at each site.

When you need a measured reading

Sports Safe estimates WBGT for each field from current weather. It is not a WBGT meter. Some state associations require readings from an approved instrument for the reading of record, and an app estimate does not meet that requirement.

A handheld WBGT meter does. Use Sports Safe to watch every field and alert your staff, and take the official reading with the meter when your policy calls for one.

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The app and the meter, together

On the Organization plan, coaches log meter readings in the compliance log. Each entry is timestamped and locked once saved, and the full history exports as a CSV.

Sports Safe can learn a correction for each field from those readings, so the field's estimate tracks your own conditions. A correction only ever makes a reading more cautious, never less.

Common questions

Can an app replace an on site weather station?: For lightning, heat, UV, and severe weather alerts at the fields you monitor, often yes, and without hardware. What an app cannot do is measure WBGT at your field or sound a horn there. Sports Safe estimates WBGT from weather data, so where your state requires an approved instrument for the reading of record, pair the app with a handheld WBGT meter.
Does Sports Safe work with a handheld WBGT meter?: Yes. On the Organization plan, coaches log meter readings in the app's compliance log, each one timestamped and locked once saved. Sports Safe can also learn a correction for each field from those readings, and a correction only ever makes the field's reading more cautious.
How much does it cost compared with buying hardware?: There is nothing to buy or install. The Team plan is $24.99 a month or $249 a year for 5 monitored fields at a time, and the Organization plan is $99.99 a month or $999 a year for 10, with compliance tools.

Start with the fields you have today

Add your fields, set your lightning radius, and turn on monitoring in minutes. Pay monthly with no long term contract, and cancel anytime.

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Sports Safe is a monitoring aid that supports the person making the call. It does not replace official warnings, on site judgment, or your emergency action plan.