Howdy Steve and WeatherCat fans,
I second it, but the Vp2 nor the Vue I dont think output the THSW index in its loop packets.
Ah, so the display in the console is getting generated by the console itself, not what's coming from the ISS. Wonder what formula Davis is using?
Actually I don't know anything about VP-2
"innerds" but if I had to guess, it is that THSW isn't one of the channels that Davis makes available to folks who write weather software. I thought Stu had "cleaned out" what Davis had to offer back in the Spring. So if the console computes the value - it isn't nice about sharing.
Well, he asked for things we'd like to add on a wish list. I wasn't asking for it before release, next version, or whatever. He asked us for ideas. :shrug:
I think you are right that it needs to get into WeatherCat someday. I just think that indeed you'll need to be a little patient
. We had another question on MacWeather about LWC support of a modern station (the Oregon Scientific WMR88). That station has a retail price of $130. While we swear Davis is better (especially with our commisions
), not everybody can afford this. If Stu is going to regain his place as #1 Mac Weather software with WeatherCat, he will have to hustle a bit to support some more "reasonably priced stations."
So I wasn't trying to say never implement THSW, but perhaps it would have to wait while under some other things get taken care of first.
Also, Stu may need to think a little bit about all these indexes. At the risk of another annoying suggestion, perhaps Stu should have a preference to allow people to chose just one "heat index" on the gauges. Otherwise the gauges display ends up being a bit cluttered. I would hope that folks could settle on one preferred metric to compute heat index.
As far as your objection to the validity of heat indexes, I remember you stating that view before when I was asking about creating it for LWC's Twitter feed. Regardless of whether the science is valid or not, here in humid middle America, it is prominently posted on weather reports on TV, radio, etc. Lots of "Be careful out there folks. It is 93˚ out, but feels like 117˚" It is a big part of what viewers want to know about current conditions.
I'm sorry, if I have to bake in a horrible drought - you'll have to sweat it out!! At the very least you should share some of your summer rains!!
Seriously, perhaps before the summer heat sets in, at least an AppleScript could be cobbled together so that WeatherCat websites have this sort of info.
I never did find the formula when I looked before. I'll write my contact at Davis and see if I can find out!
That certainly will help! That might get Davis to change their stations to allow one to get that data off the consoles. That would be much easier for Stu!
Cheers, Edouard