[Weather] oww and wunderground google map rain discrepancy

claude felizardo cafelizardo at usa.net
Fri Apr 20 16:04:34 EDT 2007


It doesn't rain much in the Los Angeles area so when it does it's a big 
deal.  I've gotten about 1/3" of rain in the last 6 hours which I can 
see in the oww debug message which comes out once a minute as well as in 
the RRD graphs but when I look at the wunderground google map for my 
zipcode and set the display type to precipitation, it says N/A for the 
amount of rain.  I'm pretty sure the last time it rained I got something 
or at least 0.0 after it had stopped. 

http://www.wunderground.com/stationmaps/gmap.asp?zip=91016&wmo=99999

According to the summary table on the right , it says "- in".    But if 
you check my history, its says I've gotten 0.28in for the day but in the 
hourly rainfall rate in the tabular section shows all zeros.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KCAMONRO2

Looking at my oww debug log, here's a recent post:

WUnd upload: 
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
action=updateraw&ID=KCAMONRO2&PASSWORD=SECRET&
dateutc=2007-04-20+19%3A21%3A08&winddir=268.463104&
windspeedmph=2.554552&windgustmph=4.373258&humidity=95.728676&
tempf=49.055000&rainin=0.070000&baromin=29.880329&dewptf=47.890400&
weather=&clouds=&softwaretype=Oww/0.81.9-L

what's the value for rainin?  Is it inches per minute or hour or what?  
Where is the wunderground update script parameters documented?

So why the discrepancy?  I thought maybe the battery in my AAG rain 
counter had died but oww is showing the cumulative amount going up and 
both the oww and oww_client gui's are showing what I'd expect.

oh, my rain gauge is configured as follows:

devices:
rain 22000000046C921D 0.010000

setupNG:

raindaily 0
rainhour 0
raindate 1
rainday 0
rainbackreset 1

thanks,
Claude






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