where does that come from Tom? In the daily wind table I have a field called max_dir but I do not see a field called gustdir - that is only in the archive table.
On Sunday, 6 May 2018 04:51:59 UTC+3, Thomas Keffer wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
