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Weather Widget - Wind Information incorrect

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

The weather widget mostly displays completely wrong wind information.

I know the watch gets the weather information from the phone via Connect and that Connect gets the data from some weather provider, but if all the following is true:

  • My Android phone has the latest Garmin Connect
  • Location services are turned on completely on my phone
  • The app has all possible privileges
  • The watch is on the latest version
  • The watch is connected to the phone
  • The watch is synced

Then why is the information still incorrect? The only explanation I can come up with is that Connect uses a service that cannot provide the correct information.

The problem might not be with the watch, but it is with Garmin or where they get the data from and it is for Garmin to fix it or get their data provider to fix it.

I have tracked the weather information over the last month. Most of the time the watch was COMPLETELY wrong as far as wind direction is concerned.

Sources used:

NZ MetService:https://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/auckland/north-shore#!/two-day

Windfinder:https://www.windfinder.com/tide/long_bay

Google Weather App on my phone

Red is where the watch was completely wrong
Orange where there was an acceptable difference, keeping the variations between forecasters into account.
Green where it was mostly correct
Grey not one source of information matched.

Out of 29 observations, 18 was red(incorrect), 6 orange(acceptable),4 was green (correct) and one grey(in-determined)

It is as tough the watch randomly displays some wind information.



Surely Garmin cannot just ignore this?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21
    Odie21 said:
    Read this topic (specifically a post from Robert.kirr in response to vaggos13 from 7 months ago)

    You mean his claim that WMO weather stations are used? Yes, it may be true for his phone, but as I have shown in my previous post, it will differ from one phone to another. In my case definitely different stations are used, and it will differ on many other phones too.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    It wasn’t about “what” was used but that the GCM application uses information from weather stations and not that if weather applications on your phone.

    Android may be manipulated but iOS can’t, so generalized information is best for this.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21
    Odie21 said:
    It wasn’t about “what” was used but that the GCM application uses information from weather stations

    From where should the weather data come from when not from weather stations? I do no think that anyone think that the phone itself measures the weather data. The data always come from a weather station, but the exact provider differs strongly from one phone to another, and depends on its OS and configuration. I cannot tell whether the above mentioned weather provider is what is used on iPhones, but I do know it is not generally used on Androids. May perhaps be used on certain brands, but definitely not generally.