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Accumulative rain graph?

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:04 pm
by skyewright
Perhaps I am missing something obvious, but is it possible for Meteohub to produce a graph which shows accumulating rainfall over a period, e.g. like the rain line on the attached screenshot extract from WD? Image

Re:Accumulative rain graph?

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:41 pm
by admin
no.

Re:Accumulative rain graph?

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:04 am
by skyewright
admin wrote:no.
Pity. Oh Well. Maybe someday...
Thanks for confirming.

Re:Accumulative rain graph?

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:03 pm
by cbhiii
Yeah, after watching some rain being displayed on my graphs an accumulation chart would be better to show how much rain fell and when over the day for instance. I would like to see this in a future release if possible. Thanks.

Re:Accumulative rain graph?

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:10 am
by bobball
The cumulative data seems to be what is being recorded by Meteohub. Inspecting rain0 data, the columns are defined as time (year-->sec) followed by rainrate, rainfall yesterday (not supported as of the v2.2 doc I'm looking at), followed by \"rainfall total since beginning of recording.\"

In my Mac's text-editing program, BBEdit, it shows the columns are space-delimited.

Weather Underground also seems to record my cumulative rainfall.

I'm no programmer and have difficulty manipulating data, but it gives me a glimpse of how it the data would yield a cumulative rain total, in some other application perhaps. It would be neat for Meteohub to deal with it. I had to reset my rainguage after I jarred it and found it yielded 1m/hour. The first reset effort took it down to 3.98 inches/hour. Resetting everything in sight reduced it to zero and reset my cumulative rain in the raw data as well.

I live out in the cornfields of Michigan, and cumulative rainfall seems more important, by the week or month, than rainfall rate. I worked 40 years ago for Detroit's water and sewer utility, and learned that 2 inches per hour was the capacity of the system as well as many suburban systems. But that's one of the few times rainfall rate has seemed of any significance.