I had a feeling I was missing something! 

Perfect, thanks Tom!

On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 8:54:48 AM UTC-4, Tom Keffer wrote:
>
> Would the $unit 
> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#_________Tag_$unit_______> tag 
> work for you?
>
> -tk
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 7:31 PM Pat O'Brien <p...@obrienphoto.net 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Google Groups seems to be having a hard time tonight. Sorry if this is 
>> the 3rd post. This is my 3rd attempt at asking the question...
>>
>>
>> I know I can get the observation for windSpeed pretty easily using 
>> $current.windSpeed.formatted, but I'm also looking for the unit label 
>> isolated on it's own. 
>>
>> This will change based on the locale, so I wanted to see if there was a 
>> Cheetah tag for this? Or do I have to do something like the below in a 
>> search list extension?
>>
>>
>>         target_unit_nickname = self.generator.config_dict['StdConvert'][
>> 'target_unit']
>>         target_unit = weewx.units.unit_constants[target_unit_nickname.
>> upper()]
>>         converter = weewx.units.StdUnitConverters[target_unit]
>>         speed = converter.group_unit_dict["group_speed"]
>>         windSpeedUnitLabel = self.generator.skin_dict["Units"]["Labels"][
>> speed]
>>
>>
>> I'm OK with the SLE, but wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking a 
>> built-in tag for this information. 
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>

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