Very wrong current temperature

The weather widget is telling me it’s currently 23C. However the forecast for today shows max 18 and in 5 minutes (7pm) it’s predicted to be 13C.

It’s set to phone location, not somewhere fixed.

openweathermap says it’s 12C. This feels about right. Similar to the Garmin forecast - but miles off the current temp (“as of 18:42”)

Any ideas if there’s anything that can be done about this? I have OWM widget and some 3rd party clock but I’d prefer to use a Garmin stock face with a reasonably accurate “now” temperature field.

Fenix 7 sapphire solar running 8.37 but had the same experience on previous firmware.

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6135587 over 2 years ago in reply to C.sco +1

I have similar problems on multiple locations in the Netherlands. Your argument doesn’t hold: Apple isn’t in the forecasting business, Google isn’t, Amazon isn’t, yet all of them can tell me the current…

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0 C.sco over 2 years ago

The watch only repeats what the local weather station is reporting. Sometimes that data is wrong, for any number of reasons including maybe their temp sensor malfunctioning, someone set their hot coffee mug on it, or maybe it is getting blasted by direct sunlight when it isn't normally supposed to be, which may be the case at whatever weather station is nearest to you. Garmin doesn't have the resources to independently verify/validate/correct all of the data that comes from all of the weather stations, they aren't in the weather forecasting business.

0 6135587 over 2 years ago in reply to C.sco

I have similar problems on multiple locations in the Netherlands. Your argument doesn’t hold: Apple isn’t in the forecasting business, Google isn’t, Amazon isn’t, yet all of them can tell me the current temperature and weather conditions without fail.

i think there is a bug somewhere, because I see more users reporting this problem.

0 2572376 over 2 years ago

I never leave my watch connected to anything.

But enabled watch to connect to phone.

brought up weather glance and it was showing the correct local temp.

Doesnt rule out a bug, but shows it does actually work for some people.

0 ss29640 over 2 years ago

I noticed this same issue this morning (23JUN2022). The temp when starting my run was 77F, but the watch was reporting 64F.

0 RonHi over 2 years ago

I think this link may be a valuable contribution to this discussion: support.garmin.com/.../