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Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Mon 30 Jan 2017 9:48 pm
by Phil23
Just noticed that in my Trends graphs, that the Temperature & Wind Chill seem to be exactly the same.
Looks like Wind Chill = Temperature on all pages & gauges actually.

Using MX 3043 & a Davis VP2.

Presuming I've got something configured wrong.

All my Tags in the pages & realtimeT.txt seem correct, there's not much I've changed in that respect.

Any thoughts on this.

Thanks

Phil.

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Mon 30 Jan 2017 9:52 pm
by mcrossley
Wind Chill is normally only calculated when the temperature is below 10°C - http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Wind_chill

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Mon 30 Jan 2017 10:07 pm
by water01
Shouldn't that be 10C Mark?

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Mon 30 Jan 2017 10:25 pm
by mcrossley
:oops: I just typed the zero very small :lol:

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 12:03 am
by Phil23
Thanks Mark,

I probably skipped over that page.

In my head I've always had "Wind Chill", (probably incorrectly), related to those early Spring days where the Temp first starts to see the 30°C mark but the humidity is still low & there's a bit of breeze about.

You know, those quite warm days where you get out of the water somewhere after a swim & absolutely freeze in the light breeze, despite the temperature.

Phil.

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 8:15 am
by water01
You know, those quite warm days where you get out of the water somewhere after a swim & absolutely freeze in the light breeze, despite the temperature.
He probably doesn't as we don't very often see 30C :D :D :D :D

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 8:30 am
by mcrossley
Nope, in my experience of sea swimming in the UK it's freezing* in the water and pretty much the same when you get out.

* Or as an older generation of stoic Brits may say, "bracing"

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 9:03 am
by Phil23
mcrossley wrote:* Or as an older generation of stoic Brits may say, "bracing"
Lol,

I think us Aussie's would interpret what the older Gen says as Brracinnnnn'.

Phil.

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 9:12 am
by Phil23
water01 wrote:
You know, those quite warm days where you get out of the water somewhere after a swim & absolutely freeze in the light breeze, despite the temperature.
He probably doesn't as we don't very often see 30C :D :D :D :D
36°C Air & 26°C water is a bit typical of out Summer up here in Northern New South Wales.

Curious about your Banner David.

In particular the units you use.

MPH, mBar, inches of rain & Celsius. Is that the standard over there? Would have expected to see Fahrenheit for temp, but that's just my guess, not knowing British standards.

Phil

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 6:14 pm
by water01
UK changed to Celsius many years back, forget exactly when. Rain is personal choice as we tend to here it stated as "so many mm (xx inches in old money) and the pressure is usually done in mb. We stuck with MPH when the rest of Europe uses kph, maybe that is why we are getting out :D :D :D !!

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 9:42 pm
by mcrossley
Wishy-washy governments have never bitten the bullet and fully converted the Luddite masses to metric, which means we have ended up with a right mess of units. Whilst we are mainly 'metric'...

Fuel is sold in litres, but car consumption is still in MPG (miles per gallon).

Most other fluids are in metric litres/ml etc, but beer is sold in pints. Doorstep bottled milk is usually pints - shop bought is a mixture of pints and metric.

Most linear measurements are in metres (cm/mm), but roads are still signed in miles, car speedos in MPH.

Weather for the masses is expressed in Celsius, mm of rain (with inches often added verbally), hPa or mb, and wind in MPH (or knots for the nautical types).

The education system works exclusively in metric units, so the poor sods coming out of school have no idea whats going on!

Re: Wind Chill displaying Temperature.

Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2017 9:54 pm
by Phil23
One of the most amusing units I've come across is mgrams per cubic foot.....

A US one.