[Weather] oww and wunderground google map rain discrepancy

David Dean deano at deanostoybox.com
Sat Apr 21 09:09:02 EDT 2007


hi
my keyboard is failing so this will be brief
see http://deanostoybox.com/Oww for how and 
http://grumbleselectric.com/weather.html for proof of concept
there will be more soon
On Friday 20 April 2007 18:40, claude felizardo wrote:
> Frédéric wrote:
> > On Friday 20 April 2007 22:04, claude felizardo wrote:
> >> Where is the wunderground update script parameters documented?
> >
> > Here:
> >
> >     http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php
> >
> > RapidFire Server
> >
> >  usage
> >  action [action=updateraw]
> >  ID [ID as registered by wunderground.com]
> >  PASSWORD [PASSWORD registered with this ID]
> >  dateutc - [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (mysql format)]
> >  winddir - [0-360]
> >  windspeedmph - [mph]
> >  windgustmph - [windgustmph ]
> >  humidity - [%]
> >  tempf - [temperature F]
> >  rainin - [rain in]
> >  dailyrainin - [daily rain in accumulated]
> >  baromin - [barom in]
> >  dewptf- [dewpoint F]
> >  weather - [text] -- metar style (+RA)
> >  clouds - [text] -- SKC, FEW, SCT, BKN, OVC
> >  softwaretype - [text] ie: vws or weatherdisplay
> >
> >> what's the value for rainin?  Is it inches per minute or hour or what?
> >
> > I would say hourly, has most weather station give...
>
> yes, that's the only documentation that I have found for this.  But I
> just noticed the dailyrainin field.  Is this new?  It doesn't look like
> OWW is including this field.  At least not my version which is 0.81.9-2
> for Linux.  I think I used the binary RPM from 2006-07-22.
>
> Looked around and found this:
>
> http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Upload_Protocol
>
> as of right now, it was last updated 27 Oct 2006 and it does not mention
> this dailyrainin parameter.
>
>
> claude
>
>
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