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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
