Colin and Philip Are you both using the Belchertown skin?
-tk On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 4:35 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmmm yes mine is way out too. 40.5% actual versus 34% shown on my website > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, 11:26 Thomas Keffer, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can't help you with the first of your two questions. >> >> Regarding the second, when I look at my own skin >> <http://www.threefools.org/weewx/>, it shows 41% for today. Are you sure >> you're not looking at an old, perhaps cached, version? >> >> -tk >> >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 2:45 PM Philip Kutzenco <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I've noticed that some information from the DarkSky API as well as >>> calculated moon phase don't seem to be correct or consistent with other >>> sources of data on WeeWX. Here's what I have seen: >>> >>> *DarkSky API* - I display a minimal 8 day forecast on the Belchertown >>> Skin. When I pull down the values using the SPI directly with my lat and >>> long, the values pulled down match what the skin shows. However, If I go to >>> DarkSky.net using the same location, the values (like min & max temp, >>> weather icon, precip probability etc.) are usually very different. I'm >>> pretty tuned into the weather right now as I live in Western North Carolina >>> and will be impacted by the remains of Florence over the next several days. >>> What's going on with the DarkSky API? >>> >>> *Moon phase* - WeeWX shows the moon phase for today to be a waxing >>> crescent - 24% (I think that means 24% visible or illuminated). When I do >>> the calculation using python's ephem module - >>> *print(ephem.Moon(datetime.date.today()).moon_phase)* - the answer I >>> get for moon phase is 31.19%. I thought that WeeWX used ephem for that >>> calculation. On timeanddate.com today's moon phase is 39.5%. At >>> http://aa.usno.navy.mil, 37% of the moon is illuminated today. Why such >>> a variation? >>> >>> These two items are vexing me. Can someone help explain these anomalies? >>> >>> Phil >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > -- > 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.
