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Ride index

Is it a good day to ride? We read the forecast for your barn every half hour and score the next 24 hours for heat index, cold, footing and wind.

ride_index · LexingtonLIVE
100Great
Air
40°F
Feels like
37°F
Best time
17:00–19:00
Air quality · nearest station
AQI 23 · Good (PM2.5, EPA AirNow)

For a fit adult horse in work. Set your barn's town

Next 24 hours

12:00 AM11:00 PM
12:00 AM40°F100
03:00 AM38°F100
06:00 AM36°F100
09:00 AM33°F100
12:00 PM32°F100
03:00 PM33°F100
06:00 PM41°F100
09:00 PM44°F100

Weather data: MET Norway · updated 12:01 AM

Ride index by region

How the score works

We start at 100 and take points off for humid heat (the heat index: air °F plus humidity %; light work only above 150, none above 180), bitter cold, rain and the footing it leaves, wind and strong UV. A horse copes with cold far better than with humid heat; the score is for a fit adult in regular work.

The thirty-minute rule

A horse that is still blowing hard thirty minutes after work was worked too hard for the day; a horse that stops sweating in the heat is an emergency. Hose, scrape, repeat, and call your vet. Old horses, fat ponies and anything with a heavy coat in spring feel the heat first.