Weather at the barn

Where it comes from

1barn asks for the weather at the barn's saved address, so the barn needs one: Settings → Barn profile → Barn address. Until there is one, the owner (and a manager who can change settings) sees “Add the barn's address to see its weather here” on the dashboard; everyone else sees nothing.

Only the barn's coordinates leave 1barn, rounded to about a kilometer. No barn name, address, person or horse goes with them. The forecast, the current conditions and the alerts come from Google Weather; the card says so at its foot, with when it was updated.

Everyone at the barn sees the weather: staff, managers and the owner, boarders and families, and vendors, on every dashboard view, on every plan.

On the dashboard

The Weather card shows the temperature now, with what it feels like beside it when that's 3° or more different, the day's high and low, the conditions and the wind. Below it, the next seven days are a strip: tap a day to see it. Today and tomorrow read round by round, the same lines as Care; later days read day and night.

A small amber dot on a day means a weather alert covers part of it. If Google isn't answering, the card keeps the last reading for up to an hour, says when it's from in amber, and keeps trying on its own.

Weather alerts

When a warning, watch or advisory is in force for the barn's area, an amber banner leads the dashboard: “Freeze warning tonight · 10 PM – 9 AM Sun”, with who issued it. Details shows the alert as it was issued: its time span, its text, the area, how serious and how likely, and a link to read the full warning. 1barn adds nothing to it. The banner goes away when the alert ends.

On each care round

On Horses → Care, each round's column has its weather under its name: the temperature at the round's usual time (feels-like too when it's 3° or more apart), the chance of rain or snow over the round (“dry” under 10%, and the amount once it's 0.01 in or more), and the strongest wind (gusts once they reach 25 mph). The Night check adds the overnight low. A round that's over is dimmed, and an alert that overlaps a round tags it.

The rounds are Morning (5–11 AM, at 7), Noon (11 AM–2 PM, at noon), Evening (3–7 PM, at 5) and the Night check (8 PM–midnight, at 9). On a phone, one Weather by round card sits above the horses. Tomorrow reads the same way; a day further out gets one forecast line; a past day says what the barn had that day. Printing keeps the lines.

A heads-up before your shift

About an hour before a shift, the person working it gets a push when the shift's weather is notably different: the feels-like temperature at the start is 15°F or more from yesterday's at the same hour, the sustained wind is over 15 mph, or a weather warning or advisory overlaps the shift. One push per shift at most, with every reason in it: “Your 5:00 PM shift: Feels like 22°, 19° colder than yesterday · NW wind 18 mph, gusts 30 · Freeze warning from 10 PM”.

It's on to begin with. The owner, or a manager who can change settings, sets the two numbers or turns it off for the barn under Settings → Notifications. Each person can turn theirs off under My profile → Notifications → Weather before my shifts. A shift that's cancelled, or made or published within its last hour, gets none.

The barn's weather history

The first night a barn has an address, 1barn fills in five years of its days from NASA POWER: each day's high and low, rain, snow, wind and humidity. From then on it keeps each new day. Ask 1barn can sum any stretch: “How much rain did we get in September?”, “How many days below freezing did we have last winter?”, “Which days last month had storms or warnings?”.

NASA POWER's numbers are estimates for the area around the barn (about a 50 km grid), not a gauge at the barn, and its snow is the water it melts to, not its depth. The last few days are Google's readings at the barn's point until NASA has them, a few days later. Alerts kept on a day are the National Weather Service's titles. Before the first day held, there's no history, and Ask says so rather than calling it zero.

Asking about it

Ask 1barn answers from the same forecast and history, and names where the numbers came from. Ask about blankets or keeping horses in and it gives the forecast and the horse's own care lines; the decision stays yours.

Units

Temperatures are in °F, rain and snow in inches, wind in mph with its direction.