Weather is one of the things people with vertigo most often say affects them, especially changes in air pressure. VertigoMe watches the weather where you are and can turn unusual days into triggers that feed your risk score.
The weather VertigoMe tracks
In Data and Notifications, the Environment section has a switch for each of these:
- Location (needed for all the others)
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Humidity
- Wind
- UV index
- Thunderstorms
- Pollen
- Air quality
The weather triggers
Under the gear icon, Manage Items, Triggers, the Environment category holds the automatic weather triggers. Each has its own threshold and an Auto-detect switch. The defaults are:
- Pressure low below 990 hPa, Pressure high above 1030 hPa.
- Temperature low below 5°C, Temperature high above 35°C.
- Humidity low below 20%, Humidity high above 80%.
- Pollen high, plus tree, grass and weed pollen.
- Air quality poor, Ozone high and Coarse dust high.
- Altitude high and Altitude change high, for travel.
A trigger fires on a day that crosses its threshold, or on a day far from your own last two weeks. Checks run every hour as new data arrives.
Why air pressure gets the attention
Falling pressure usually means unsettled weather is on the way. Some people with Meniere's disease or vestibular migraine notice more symptoms around these changes. Research on this is still limited and not everyone is affected.
Besides the triggers above, VertigoMe shows a Barometric pressure alert on Home when today's pressure is 10 hPa or more below yesterday's. See "The barometric pressure alert on Home".
Where the weather comes from
VertigoMe uses your phone's location to look up the weather for your area from Open-Meteo, a weather data service. If location is off, weather cannot be fetched and these triggers will not fire.
Where to see it
- Tap the Monitor tab.
- Tap the Environment card. Temperature, pressure and humidity show by default.
- Premium users also see the 7-Day Forecast here.
If weather turns up often in your Top contributors card on Home, or in Insights, it may be a real factor for you.
This is general information only.
