Just to clear up obtaining heatindex and windchill from Davis hardware. Irrespective of any other settings, the only way you will get hardware provided heatindex and windchill from a Davis station is if you have WeeWX use the LOOP2 packet data from the console/logger. This is because heatindex and windchill are not included in the ARCHIVE record and LOOP packet provided by the console/logger. To use LOOP2 data the user must make a change to weewx.conf, a default install will use LOOP packet and ARCHIVE record data from the console/logger and not LOOP2 data.
Based upon what you have posted so far my guess is the WeeWX is not receiving heatindex/windchill data from the console/logger and hence WeeWX is calculating both. Gary On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 07:44:41 UTC+10 Peter Fletcher wrote: > A further note, from Davis's documentation on their wind chill > calculations: > "The formula below was adopted by both Environment Canada and the U.S. > National Weather Service to ensure a uniform wind chill standard in North > America. The formula is supposed to more closely emulate the response of > the human body when exposed to conditions of wind and cold than the previous > formula did: > 35.74 + 0.6215T - 35.75 * (V^0.16 ) + 0.4275T * (V^0.16 ) > This relationship takes into account the fact that wind speeds are > measured "officially" at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground, but the > human is typically only 5 to 6 feet (2 meters) above the ground..... This > newer version of the formula addresses the fact that the latest National > Weather Service (NWS) formula was not designed for use above 40°F. The > result of the straight NWS implementation was little or no chilling > effect at mild temperatures. This updated version provides for reasonable > chilling effect at mild temperatures based on the effects determined by > Steadman (1979) (see THSW Index section), but as with the new NWS > formula, no upper limit where chilling has no additional effect." > > On heat index, they say: > " Heat Index uses temperature and relative humidity to determine how hot > the air actually “feels.” When humidity is low, the apparent temperature > will be lower than the air temperature, since perspiration evaporates > rapidly to cool the body. However, when humidity is high (i.e., the air is > saturated with water vapor) the apparent temperature “feels” higher than > the actual air temperature, because perspiration evaporates more slowly. > Formulas: Heat Index is based upon a lookup table presented by Steadman > (1979) and loosely derived from the methodology outlined by Steadman > (1998). Thus, air temperatures below 50°F follow this 1998 procedure. Air > temperatures above 68°F follow his procedure outlined in 1979 (since the US > NWS continues to use this). Davis has made a smooth transition between > the two methods between 50°F and 68°F. > > On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 4:33:15 PM UTC-5 Peter Fletcher wrote: > >> Responding to both of your messages: You are right that my comments would >> equally apply to the heat index being different to the actual temperature. >> A relatively quick scan of the relevant pages on the NWS site found the >> explicit statement that the wind chill was undefined for air temperatures >> above 50 ºF but I did not notice the slightly less strongly worded caveats >> about heat index calculations being unreliable below 80 ºF >> >> My console initially showed the same value (60) for Heat index and Wind >> Chill, with outside temperature 62.0, RH 60, and wind in the low teens. At >> the same time, the weewx display showed a wind chill of 62.0 and a Heat >> Index of 60.7. A couple of minutes later, the temperature had dropped to 61 >> 7, the RH had risen to 61, the heat index had risen to 61 (all on the >> console), with no significant change in the wind. The simultaneous weewx >> value for heat index was 60.5. It looks, therefore as if weewx is not using >> the console's calculated values for *either* derived parameter.. >> >> In terms of definitions, at least as per the US NWS, it is not that (wind >> chill == temperature) above 50 ºF, but that wind chill is *undefined* >> above that temperature.They are not quite as clear about heat index, simply >> saying that "...The Heat Index calculation may produce meaningless results >> for temperatures and dew points outside of the range depicted on the Heat >> Index Chart linked below {40<= RH <=100; 80<= ºF <=110)} >> >> All my 'derived value" options in weewx.conf are set up >> "prefer_hardware', so weewx should presumably be using those transmitted by >> the console. As far as I can see, it isn't - certainly not for Wind Chill, >> and probably not for heat index, either! >> On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 3:25:32 PM UTC-5 Greg Troxel wrote: >> >>> >>> Also, check the values in your skin against what is on your console. >>> >> -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c3b802f4-941f-483b-a3bf-dc7daa54081fn%40googlegroups.com.