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An hourly meteogram for the end of every stage, not one forecast for the whole trip.

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A forecast for "Scotland" is useless when your week crosses four valleys and a coast. Weather gives each day its own hourly chart, for the point where that stage actually ends β€” which is where you will be standing when the rain arrives.

It already knows where you will be

Most planners make you type coordinates. Trip Tracker takes them from the end of the day's GPX track, because that is the overnight stop, and caches the result on the day so it is only worked out once.

Days without a track can have coordinates set by hand, and any day's point can be overridden if you would rather forecast for a summit than a bunkhouse.

  • Derived from your GPX β€” no coordinates to look up.
  • Per day, so a week-long trip gets a week of different forecasts.
  • Editable when a track is missing or the wrong point is picked.
Weather β€” day picker
Day 3
17 Aug
Day 4
18 Aug
Day 5
19 Aug
Day 6
20 Aug
57.574, -5.081 (from GPX) Β· Achnasheen

A meteogram, not an emoji

A sun icon and one temperature tells you nothing about whether to start at six or wait until nine. The chart stacks the things that change that decision across 48 hours: temperature with feels-like and dew point, precipitation with probability, wind with gusts and direction, and cloud cover split into low, mid and high.

Night hours are shaded, days are separated, and the summary above gives the range, total rainfall, peak gust and daylight hours for the stage itself.

  • 48 hours at a time, pageable through 16 days.
  • Temperature, feels-like and dew point on one axis.
  • Rain in mm plus probability, so drizzle and a downpour look different.
  • Wind and gusts with direction arrows every three hours.
  • Cloud in three layers β€” high cloud and hill fog are not the same problem.
  • Sunrise and sunset, which is what really limits a long day.
Weather β€” Day 4, Achnasheen
12–14Β°Temp
7.5 mmRain
32Max gust
05:52Sunrise
Shaded columns are night Β· rain arrives 15:00

Pick the model you trust

Forecast models disagree, especially in mountains, and most people who ride in bad weather have a favourite. Switch between ECMWF, the UK Met Office, GFS and ICON, or let the service pick the best available for that location.

Disagreement between two models is itself information. If ECMWF and the Met Office differ about Thursday, Thursday is uncertain β€” worth knowing before you commit to a 90 km day.

  • Five sources, switchable per trip.
  • Cached for three hours, so paging between days is instant.
  • Last good forecast is kept and labelled with its age if the network drops.

Good to know

  • Forecasts come from Open-Meteo and need a connection the first time for each point and model. After that a cached copy is shown, labelled with its age.
  • The point used is where the stage ends. A day that climbs 1,000 m to a pass and descends will not show the weather at the top.
  • Only days with a GPX track get coordinates automatically; the rest need them set by hand.
  • Wind is forecast at 10 m in open ground β€” valleys and forest will differ considerably.

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