Very cool feature!
Can the temperature overlay on the map use the device temperature instead of the forecasted one? Is there an option for this?
And is there a way to disable the weather for indoor rides?
Tx. Weather should only be done for outdoor rides. Do you have an indoor ride with weather?
I will see if I can add device temp as an option.
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Got confused on the indoor ride, sorry!
Looking forward to the device temperature, thanks! 
Awesome and quick, thanks!
This is awesome! I’ve loved having it auto-populate on my Strava activity notes. Makes me wonder if other metrics can be added to Strava notes, like custom metrics calculated in Intervals? Kinda like what ActivityFix does. Sorry a bit of a tangent from the topic but just an idea.
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I am a bit disappointed as I have as a coach just realized, that in order for me to check out this feature the athlete has to be a supporter as well. I think it should be a way for coaches, who are supporters, to get access to all the features in order to analyze the activity completely.
If weather was enabled for everyone I would have to signup for a much more expensive package with the weather data provider and Intervals.icu servers would be under heavier load and so on. So that is one of the reasons why it is a premium feature. It is a similar story with the upcoming routes feature.
Also I need to persuade more people to become supporters somehow. Intervals.icu offers a great deal for free and I don’t want to take any of that away.
What I am going to do at some point is make it possible for people to “sponsor” other athlete’s. Then you could pay for your athletes and recover that into the fees that pay you.
Thanks for supporting Intervals.icu!
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Could someone explain what the yaw angle means?
I understand ‚wind direction’ and ‚bearing‘. ‚A Wind‘ is the difference from both. But what is yaw angle?
And @david would it be possible to have ‚A Wind‘ as an accessible interval field for custom fields? And would it also be possible to get access to the weather streams (especially the ‚A Wind’ stream) for custom stream? I didn’t find them under Server side data model for scripts
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I have updated the docs. The new streams are: heat_strain_index, weather_temp, feels_like, wind_speed, wind_gust, wind_deg, bearing, apparent_wind_deg, yaw, secondary_power.
I think this is a good explanation of yaw angle: “It’s the result of the force of the natural wind combining with the force of the headwind that you’re creating for yourself by riding forwards.”
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This is a nice feature, very useful - especially the wind data!
One minor niggle: From the numerical values, it appears that the yaw angle is computed directly from the OpenMeteo wind speed. AFAIK, that is the wind at 10 m above ground, which is substantially more than what we would experience on a bike. In open areas, the speed at 1 m above ground is about 40% of the speed at 10 m. In typical suburban areas, more like 30%.
A possible improvement could be to apply the log-law for wind speed using the local roughness length from the global wind atlas.
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Awesome addition! I am wondering what I missed to get this to show on the calendar page. In the screenshot, I added it on Tuesday, but I can’t get it to add on the subsequent days. What am I missing?
Are you referring to the weather summary info on the Wed activity?
Yes. That was the first day I read the announcement, but after setting the defaults, it was not added after that. It was added to Strava for Thursday and Saturday.
When did you turn it on? When you enable “Add to Strava” the weather summary info is added for the activity you are looking at but not others. New activities coming in should get weather summary info added to Strava.
I turned it on after the Tuesday workout in the above screenshot. Strava is working correctly. I was wondering how/why the info got added to the Wednesday workout but did not get added to the following activities?
According to the Intervals.icu logs the activities on the 6th and 3rd both had weather summary added to them on Strava but only the one on the 3rd actually reflects that. I don’t know why. Please turn it on again so we can see what happens to future activities.
I also use this feature and it is working perfectly for me.
@david: the strava weather update is awsome, thanks a lot, but apparently you did not take into account the possibility that multiple apps might update the description. Now the intervals.icu and wandrer.earth updates are messed up:
Would it be possible to add a new-line char, or some other means of delimiters after the intervals.icu update-text?
or maybe to make the whole strava-update text-template editable/customizable by the user?
The problem is that Intervals.icu doesn’t have any control over when the updates are done and in what order. So sometimes Intervals.icu will get the Strava webhook first and apply its updates, then Wandrer. It might be the other way round.
Intervals.icu gets the description from Strava, applies its changes and writes it back. Wandrer does the same. So depending on the timing one service might wipe out changes from another.
I will add an extra newline to the Intervals.icu weather update which will help for the “Intervals.icu first case”.
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