Vince,

Now Vince, I could have said Google 'outTempDay' and take the 1st 
result....  :)

Seriously, are you running weeWX-WD or some derivative by chance? outTempDay 
(along with outTempNight ) is a field added to loop packets and archive 
records by weeWX-WD for the purposes of calculating (month, year, all time) 
max/min day time and night time temperatures. If the time is between 6am 
and 6pm then outTempDay = outTemp and outTempNight = None and if the time 
is between 6pm and 6am then outTempDay = None and outTempNight = outTemp . 
WeeWX may be doing something to omit outTempNight since (in the case you 
cited) it will be None, or it may be there if you look again.

I thought weeWX-WD was well behaved (well behaved in this regard anyway) 
and should have converted outTempDay and outTempNight to the appropriate 
units before adding it to the packet/record, trust me it is not some sort 
of metric conspiracy. Mind you, that functionality goes back to 2014 so who 
knows, but I am almost certain that code has always respected the 
packet/record units.

In any case you have your hint on where to look.

Gary

On Saturday, 27 January 2018 10:02:34 UTC+10, vince wrote:
>
> I'm fiddling with the weewx-mqtt extension Matthew wrote to export weewx 
> data to MQTT topics and notice a 'outTempDay' item in there with a value of 
> 4.8333 here, but I can't figure out what that means or where it comes from.
>
> Weather here is miserable at about 40.8 F which is pretty close to that 
> value 'if' it is degrees C, but that might be a coincidence.   It might be 
> the high or current temperature for the day, but that seems odd since I'm 
> running weewx in US units.
>
> Ideas ?
>
>

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