Comment 5 for bug 743553

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Felix Lawrence (felix-lawrence) wrote :

The Apparent Temperature (AT) should generally be lower than the Humidex and Heat index, because it takes into account wind chill whereas the others do not. Likewise, the AT should be higher than the wind chill (which is only defined for temperatures <10˚C) since it takes into account humidity.

I understand that people will probably want the index most common to their region, i.e. the one they are most familiar with.

Tomorrow I can start a new branch for this and write methods that calculate heat index and wind chill. I guess this (and most new development) should be based on the vala port branch, since you've split the code into several files - a good move IMO. Would you then be able to write the code dealing with preferences, at your leisure?