The value for $day.windDir.max will, indeed, be the highest cardinal value seen for the day, and always has been. Kind of a useless statistic.
You want $day.wind.gustdir -tk On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Andrew Milner <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom > With the start of a new day I am now able to say that all gustdir fields > appear to be being populated. > > The only issue I now find is that there seems to be no correlation between > daily gust speed and daily gust direction in that it seems max for daily > gustdir is the highest cardinal direction - which will probably settle at > 359 by the end of the day, and the time will be then maxtime will be the > time at which 359 was seen, whilst gustspeed maxtime will be the time of > the gust - so the result of day.windgust.max from day.winddir.max at > day.windgust.maxtime will not be what one expects in that direction will > usually just be some random high direction close to 359 …. Unless there is > some other way to get the direction of the max gust. > > Andrew > > > On Sunday, 6 May 2018 03:45:15 UTC+3, Greg from Oz wrote: >> >> Watching my wind direction weather vane it spins around a lot so the >> direction would be pot luck whether it was a gust or just a breeze, so I >> think any number/direction is better than nothing. >> >> >> On Sunday, 29 April 2018 19:32:49 UTC+10, Greg from Oz wrote: >>> >>> My web page displays the wind direction and is using this value >>> $current.windDir.formatted >>> >>> The week web page is using this: $week.wind.max from $week.wind.gustdir >>> ($week.wind.gustDir.ordinal_compass) at $week.wind.maxtime >>> >>> This is what is displayed on the current conditions webpage; >>> Wind 6 km/h from 217° (SW) >>> >>> This is what is being displayed on the week webpage: >>> High Wind 23 km/h from N/A (N/A) at 11:47:27 (Friday)So my question is >>> why doesn't the directions show up on any other webpages? >>> Also where is the data for these values stored? >>> Are they calculated somewhere? >>> >>> I noticed this direction data was missing after I installed the android >>> weewx app (which is great BTW) and it showed my missing data. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
