Yes I am On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, 11:40 Thomas Keffer, <tkef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Colin and Philip > > Are you both using the Belchertown skin? > > -tk > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 4:35 PM Colin Larsen <colin.lar...@gmail.com> > 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, <tkef...@gmail.com> 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 <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. >>> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.