Weather

Stride adds weather to outdoor activities recorded with GPS, matched to where you were and when. Zwift and ROUVY rides have none, since they happen indoors. Weather helps you see when the conditions made a session harder or easier.

Weather on activities#

Open an activity's Weather tab. At the top you see the air temperature, wind, how much of the time you rode into a headwind, humidity and time in rain. The Conditions table lists air temperature, feels-like temperature, wind speed and gusts, precipitation, humidity, cloud cover and air pressure, with their averages, and each is charted along the activity below. Switch the charts between Time and Distance, and between Smoothed and Cells.

Weather is matched to the actual time of each part of your ride, so an early start or a ride that runs past midnight shows the right conditions.

Wind#

The Wind section splits your time into headwind, crosswind and tailwind. Two charts show where the wind came from:

• Against your route: relative to your direction of travel.
• By compass: by compass direction.

This explains a lot on out-and-back or loop routes, where the same effort can produce very different speeds.

Performance context#

Weather helps you separate what came from you and what came from the environment. A slow average speed on a windy day does not necessarily mean a bad session, and a fast time with a strong tailwind is not quite the achievement it first appears.

When reviewing activities, look for:

• Headwind sections where speed dropped but power stayed steady.
• Temperature effects on heart rate (heat pushes heart rate higher for the same effort).

Rain warnings#

If you have a planned outdoor session with a course attached in the next two weeks, Stride checks the forecast every morning. If rain appears that was not forecast before, you get a Weather Alert notification. Turn these off with Weather Warnings in Settings > Notifications.

Route forecasts need a course, and courses are being rebuilt, so for now this works only with courses already in Stride.

Tips#

• Compare the same route ridden on different days to see how the wind affected your time and effort.
• Check the temperature forecast before long sessions to plan hydration and clothing.