It's aliiiive! I might need to reposition it a little, but I'm _fairly_ sure that it shouldn't be getting any direct sunshine where it's dangling there because there are a bunch of trees just over to the right on the other side of the fence.
I'm quite pleased with the overall architecture of my code for this whole project (https://github.com/VirtualWolf/esp32-sensor-reader-mqtt), it was delightfully straightforwards to find a library for the sensor and integrate it.