'plotly js globals not being available to other function

This is usually a simple problem to solve with a global var. But nooooo... All the code works, the csv is read in, the arrays created with the correct values (x,y), a default graph is drawn, but the newPlot function vars are not acting like globals and are empty, so the plot is an empty default of 6x6 with no traces. The newPlot vars are globals. Is plotly.js different? Line 63 is the culprit. This code is pretty much a clone of: plotlyHover

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" >
<head>
  <script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.min.js"></script>
</head>

<div id="myDiv"></div>
<div id="hoverinfo" style="margin-left:80px;"></div>
 
<!-- cloudcover.csv looks like this.
Time,CloudCover
2022-04-06 10:07:09,0
2022-04-06 11:07:18,100.0
2022-04-06 12:08:17,100.0
2022-04-06 13:09:16,96.0
2022-04-06 14:10:15,66.0
2022-04-06 15:11:14,7.0
-->


<script>
    var traces = [];
    var layout = {};
    var config = {};
    const CSV = "cloudcover.csv";
  
    Plotly.d3.csv(CSV, function(rows) {
      let x = [];
      let y = [];
      let row;
      let i = 0;
      while (i < rows.length) {
        row = rows[i];
        x.push(row["Time"]);
        y.push(row["CloudCover"]);
        i += 1;
      };
      traces = [{
        x: x,
        y: y,
        line: {
          color: "#387fba"
        },
        width: 16,
      }];
  
      layout = {
        title: 'Cloudcover',
        yaxis: {
          range: [0, 100]
        },
        xaxis: {
          tickformat: "%H:%M:%S"
        }
      };
  
      config = {
        responsive: true
      };
  
    });
    
    Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', traces, layout, config, {
      showSendToCloud: true
    });
  
    var myPlot = document.getElementById('myDiv')
    hoverInfo = document.getElementById('hoverinfo')
  
    myPlot.on('plotly_hover', function(data) {
      var infotext = data.points.map(function(d) {
        return (d.data.name + ': x= ' + d.x + ', y= ' + d.y.toPrecision(3));
      });
      hoverInfo.innerHTML = infotext.join('<br/>');
    })
  
    myPlot.on('plotly_unhover', function(data) {
      hoverInfo.innerHTML = '';
    });
  </script>
  </body>
  
  </html>

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