Know by 5 AM if your crews can work.

You do. Hard Hat Weather is guidance built from Weather Service forecasts and the limits you set. Forecasts can be wrong, so your crew leaders always have the final say on site, and official warnings come first.

A weather app shows the same forecast to everyone. We check each of your job sites hour by hour against your trade's limits, then send one clear call with the hours that work, before your crews leave.

The next workday after you sign up. Your calls come by text if you agree to texts, by email if you don't. Your 7-day trial starts with your first call, not the day you sign up.

Anywhere the National Weather Service forecasts in the United States. We're based in La Porte County, Indiana, and we're enrolling our first crews in Northwest Indiana now.

By 5:00 AM local time: about 90 minutes before your crews start, but never before 4:30 AM. Want a different time? Reply to any of our emails.

You, and anyone else you choose, like your foremen or your office. To add someone by email, reply with their email address and we'll add them. To add a phone, use your welcome email's short join code: each person texts JOIN and that code to our Hard Hat Weather number from their own phone. Anyone can reply STOP at any time.

Yes. Every limit, from the rain chance to the wind gusts, can be set per job site. If your shingles are rated for colder weather, or your lift for more wind, reply to any of our emails with your numbers and the calls follow them.

Your first 7 days include everything. After that, the Free plan keeps one job site's morning call and Weather Service warnings coming by email, for $0, for as long as you want. Crew ($19 a month) adds up to 5 people, up to 5 job sites, heads-ups when the call changes during the day, the week ahead every Sunday, same-day weather records on delay days, and a monthly weather log. Company ($39 a month) covers every job site and phone you have.

If our morning call for a job site says GO, and the nearest National Weather Service reporting station records rain or snow there for 2 or more of your work hours, without a heads-up from us first, we take a week off your next bill. It's checked automatically each night in your weather log, so you don't have to ask. It applies to Crew and Company plans, up to one month's price in any month.

For each workday and job site: the call we sent, and what the nearest National Weather Service reporting station recorded, including the day's rain, the work hours with rain or snow, thunder, and the strongest wind and gusts. It comes by email on the 1st with a spreadsheet you can keep for your records or attach to a delay claim. On the 8th, a second email puts the month next to the 30-year normal at the nearest NOAA station: how many days had 0.10 inch or more of rain or melted snow, stayed at freezing or colder, or brought an inch of snow, against the normal for that month. Many contracts, like the AIA A201, grant weather time only when the weather was abnormal for the period, and that's the data they ask for.

On a day our call kept your crew away (STOP or DELAY), or a GO day that got rained on anyway, you get an email that evening with the call we made and what the nearest Weather Service station measured during your work hours: rain, wet hours, wind, and temperature. Forward it to your customer or general contractor, or keep it with the job file for a delay claim. It ends with a short notice of the weather delay, written for you to forward to the owner or general contractor, since many contracts want written notice within a few days. (It's a starting point, not legal advice.)

Yes. Pick Snow removal when you sign up, and instead of a morning work call you get a snow & ice call around 6 PM whenever snow or ice is in the forecast: PLOW, SALT, or WATCH for each lot, with the expected snow from the National Weather Service and when it falls, plus a 3 AM update if it gets worse. Landscapers who plow in winter can have both: just ask. Quiet nights, no message.

Yes. Field Day Weather is our farm version: calls for spraying (with the dicamba label's rules built in), hay, and field work, frost calls the evening before, heat and cold stress calls for livestock, and spray records by text.

Yes. Anyone who'd rather read their texts in Spanish texts ESPANOL to our number, and their morning calls, heads-ups, and warnings come in Spanish from then on. ENGLISH switches back. You can also pick Spanish for your own phone when you sign up. Emails stay in English.

Yes. Your welcome email has a private calendar link (and on Crew and Company, so does your Sunday email). Add it to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook, and each job site's call for the next 7 days shows up there, updating as the forecast changes. The morning call each workday still has the final say.

Reply to any of our emails with the address. Add up to 3 job sites when you sign up, and more any time after, up to your plan’s limit.

We'll tell you. Your monthly weather log puts every call next to what the weather station actually recorded, misses included.

No. We use your details only to run your alerts. We never sell or share phone numbers or text consent for anyone's marketing. See our privacy policy.

Tell us any time, and we'll stop your alerts and billing. There's no contract and no cancellation fee. Anyone can stop texts to their own phone by replying STOP.