Weather causing floor climbed count going crazy?

[ShaunyB]

Hi

My Blaze counted me as having climbed 188 floors on Wednesday and 35 on Friday. I haven't and it's not because I've walked up any hills, mountains, the area I live in a flat as a pancake. I did notice on both days, the weather was very windy. Could this be causing the erronous counting? I'm guessing the altimeter uses a barometer and the winds where caused by a low atmospheric pressure system passing?

[Kmransom123 · Accepted solution]

You are absolutely correct @ShaunyB.  That is exactly why you saw the increase in floors. 

[ShaunyB]

Thanks, somethings for Fitbit to look at then. It makes the floor climb badges completely irrelevent, I can just sit on the sofa on a stormy day and climb Everest 🙂

[Rich_Laue]

One of the problems is physics, like a car driving down a road a strong wind will produce a vacuum on the leeward, or down wind, side of an object. This can include while standing in a house, also i found that as a storm or hurricane approaches the barometet may fall quick enough to register floors. Im not sure how much magic Fitbit can do to weed out these false floors, but the developers have had some awsome surprises in the past.

[ShaunyB]

I agree that it will be difficult but surely they can implement some kind of common sense check, i.e. I didn't climb 35 floors in 20 seconds? 😉