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Weather alerts totally off base

smithfx
over 4 years ago

Not sure how the weather alerts are being captured but they are way off base. This morning I received at least four wind and gale warnings. Here is the problem, wind is less than 20 km and sky is cloudless.

According to online documentation, weather is handled by the Garmin Connect app. However, nothing is mentioned regarding where the weather is coming from. These warnings happen consistently during my rides ever since I got the 1030+. You cannot see within the Garmin Connect app where it is pulling the weather from. For all I know, it still thinks it is an Kansas and I am getting the Kansas weather warnings.

Anyone else notice all this fun stuff?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Those warnings disappeared for a few days after Garmin recovered from the lock out. It's back now in full force sorry to say. You can turn off the weather alert in the connect app, but it immediately springs back to life the next time you use your Garmin device.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    It's a known issue by Garmin. I have told them multiple times, as have many others judging by the forums on this topic. BUT the more people that complain about it, the faster it'll get fixed. I can't believe they didn't address it on this latest update on the Edge units!

  • 0 over 4 years ago
    smithfx said:
    You cannot see within the Garmin Connect app where it is pulling the weather from.

    But your Edge shows where he picks up weather data.

    On the picture below (taken some moments ago) you can read a line beneath „Wetter“ (weather):
    “Niederösterreich / Lugplatz Vos“ which is a small „nearby“ airport.

    Of course you need a satfix so your Edge knows where he is.



  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to JVanderveen85

    It is downright comical. It happened this morning on my ride and the wind was less that 10 kph. With each update (both on the device and Garmin Connect) they break existing functionality.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to mcinner1

    I don't see this on my device although I suspect I need to turn it on as a display screen. I don't need the weather app unless it can show me radar (which is more accurate in showing possible rain events). In that case, I can stop and look at the weather app on my phone. But still, this should be displayed on the Garmin Connect app.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to smithfx

    Believe me, count your blessings that it doesn't rear it's ugly head on your Garmin over and over and over of times. You don't need your garmin to tell you when it's windy, except when it's tailwind. When that happens you're just fast....

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Does your Garmin Connect app have GPS permissions enabled on your phone?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to rmsmith1126

    It was set to while using app, so basically yes. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to steve

    Yes it does and that is truly a bug. And now, the stupid device is telling me every tine on turn it on that there are strong winds and gale warning. That is a bug too. I'll be one of the developers left on some debug code somewhere to cause that message to be displayed.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    It's very annoying having this all the time on the ride and coming back it's start alerting for weather which is not remotely close to me. This happening in all Garmin Edge devises. I have 820 and now 1030 plus and they all showing this bug, 1030 plus even more so. I contacted Garmin regarding this issue over a year ago, but nothing been fixed so far. IMO it's ridiculous by Garmin.