How do I check the weather on my cycling route with AI?
Updated
With the livedot connector in ChatGPT or Claude, ask for a tour’s route, or name a race. Within 10 days of the start you get Windline’s live forecast, timed to when riders reach each stretch; further out, 10 years of weather on that date, labelled as history.
Ask it
Add the livedot connector first: it takes a minute. See using Windline in ChatGPT and Claude.
Then name the ride or race:
- “What’s the ProLend 2027 Durban Tour route, and what will the weather be?”
- “Weather for the Gravel Burn?”
- “Is there a headwind on day 3 of the Durban tour?”
- “Show me tour.windline.tech/your-tour, with the weather.”
You get the answer in words, and a map of the route coloured by the wind, with the rating for each day.
Forecast or history
The answer depends on how far away the start is, and it always says which one you’re reading.
| When | What you get | Labelled |
|---|---|---|
| Within 10 days | Windline’s live forecast from Apple Weather, timed to when riders reach each stretch. | “Forecast from Apple Weather, timed to the course” |
| More than 10 days out | What the route has had on this date over 10 years of weather records (Copernicus ERA5, 2015–2024). | “Based on 10 years of weather on this date … not a forecast” |
A tour that’s partly inside the 10 days gets both: the forecast for the near days, history for the rest. From 10 days out the forecast takes over by itself, just as on the event page. See when the forecast opens.
What’s in the answer
The same numbers as the event page, because they come from the same engine:
- The rating for each day, Good, Fair or Tough, and with a forecast, the reason, such as “Headwind out to km 40”. See Good, Fair and Tough.
- The temperature at the start and the finish.
- The wind on the road: where it’s a headwind, a tailwind or side-on.
- Rain: the amount and where it starts, or for history, how many days in 10 had rain.
- The timing it used: the organiser’s pace and stops for a tour, or a steady 25 km/h (16 mph) for a race.
The forecast is timed like Windline’s own: each stretch at the hour riders get there. See how the forecast is timed.
Which routes it can read
The connector reads only what’s public on livedot:
- Published Windline tours, by their name, their address (tour.windline.tech/…) or the organiser’s or club’s name;
- races on an organiser’s or club’s page that start in the next 14 days;
- events with a livedot weather preview, such as the Nedbank Gravel Burn;
- the demo races, any day.
Drafts, private rides and regular rides aren’t public there, so it can’t read them. For those, and for your own pace, open the ride in Windline: the event page shows every day at your pace, and Fly the route shows the wind on every stretch.
Good to know
- The answer uses the event’s pace, not yours. To see the weather at your own speed, set your pace on the event page.
- If several events match, the assistant asks which one you mean.
- Ask in miles and °F, or km and °C, and the answer follows.