I've never ever seen a storm alert from my Suunto watch until today when we are in a heatwave and there is not a single cloud on the sky
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There were a few thunderstorms recently and my watch has never warned about that. Today is the middle of a record breaking heat wave and absolutely not a chance of storm, and the hot weather will continue for at least the next two days. The weather is very stable. However, when I returned home from the mountains, the watch has triggered a storm alert.
This all is very counter-intuitive and I am not impressed by this function! Not sure if I should trust it.
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@sky-runner On my Race S it triggers occasionally, but I agree that it needs an overhaul.
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I had storm alert on different watches of different brands. Occasionally had a storm alert, never when a storm was approaching.
Just something to turn off. There are better ways to be alerted for severe weather.
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It worked well on my old 9 Baro, not so well since then. Never popped up on my Race 2.
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Maybe Suunto actually paid attention on the barometer implementation in the 9 baro.
The barometer is also used to count stairs. Staircount is an easy metric to check. I don’t climb that much stairs a day. On my last 3 watches that could count stairs, it was always wrong. If I compared stairscount with my wife’s Apple watch after a hike in the mountains there is a huge difference (and there is no way the tell which is worse). I’m not impressed by the quality of the barometer in watches.
I used to do hang gliding and the barometer is the single most important instrument for flying thermals. The complete device is build around the barometer. On watches, is seems more like they are cramped into it, just to be able to add it to the feature list.
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