Tom
the new accum.py did not seem to make any difference as far as I could tell.
Andrew



On Saturday, 5 May 2018 07:03:59 UTC+3, Andrew Milner wrote:
>
> I am almost inclined to agree Gary.  I had come to the same conclusions 
> until Tom said there may be a problem with the accumulators and from the 
> original posting it seemed that current was able to provide a gust 
> direction by some means or another. IF there is an implied gustdir==winddir 
> which enables this then weewx should at least be consistent.  However, I 
> came to the conclusion that as the station does not appear to ever output 
> gust dir then the current situation is correct as long as gust direction is 
> NEVER available in any form, anywhere, by any tag for a (standard) FO 
> weather station.
>
> On Saturday, 5 May 2018 06:51:34 UTC+3, gjr80 wrote:
>>
>> Just playing a little devils advocate here; but are we bordering on 
>> inventing data? The FO stations provide windSpeed, windDir and windGust per 
>> loop packet. It would appear that windSpeed is some sort of average over 
>> the period and windGust is presumably the max wind speed seen over the loop 
>> period. It appears now that we are setting windGustDir to windDir, but is 
>> that necessarily correct, we are not stretching it a little are we?
>>
>> I also don't see any inconsistency between the Standard skin pages in 
>> terms on wind/speed/dir. You need to compare apples with apples not apples 
>> with oranges. index.html shows the current conditions (windSpeed/windDir 
>> based) in the top left pane and day max values (wind.max/wind.maxdir based) 
>> in the lower left pane. week.html shows the week max values 
>> (wind.max/wind.maxdir based) in the top left pane and month max values 
>> (wind.max/wind.maxdir based) in the lower left pane. The FO problem is with 
>> windGustDir/wind.maxdir so anywhere wind.maxdir is used will show N/A. So 
>> given that limitation the Standard skin pages are completely consistent.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>

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