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