Field reporting on rain days, contract notice and delay claims for the people running US commercial job sites.
Nine articles, published September 3, 2026
Written for superintendents, project engineers and schedulers who have to prove a lost day months after the water dried. Every piece is built from the contract language, the station record and the daily report, in that order.
practical guide
A weather delay claim is read by someone who was never on the site. Here is the order the sections go in, what each one has to prove, and the exhibits that stop a reviewer from asking again.
regulation and compliance
Three standard contract families set the clock on a weather day, and each counts the days differently. Here is what A201, ConsensusDocs 200 and the federal default clause require in writing.
comparison
An owner's reviewer will accept one source and argue with another. Airport ASOS readings, an on site tipping bucket gauge and NOAA archived records compared on accuracy, distance and defensibility.
mistakes to avoid
Reviewers strike weather days for reasons that have nothing to do with the rain. These are the eight logging habits that hand an owner's scheduler a clean reason to reject the day.
checklist
By the time the crew is sent home, half the evidence is already gone. Work through this list before you leave the gate, so the day is fully recorded while the water is still standing.
numbers and benchmarks
Owners argue that a wet April was normal and already inside your schedule. This walks through building a defensible monthly weather day table from NOAA climate normals before the contract is signed.
case study
A fourteen month patient tower in central Florida logged every qualifying day from notice to proceed. Here is how the record was built, what the owner challenged, and why three days were struck.
trends and outlook
Weather clauses used to say adverse weather and leave it there. Newer owner agreements name a station, publish a monthly day table and set an electronic notice route. Here is how to price that.
field report
The rain stopped at midnight and the site still could not take a scraper at seven. This is what two dry out days looked like on a site package, and how each hour was recorded for the claim.