[Weather] Difference between wunderground updates and rapidfire updates

[unkajim at comcast.net]

Wunderground has had the statement at the bottom of their page in regards to Rapidfire Updates  that they are deciding whether to require normal updates along with the Rapidfire updates or not. Further, they state that they're leaning toward one or the other but not both. 
I've been running a standalone Java Rapidfire updater for several months now and have been wondering what would happen if I disabled the normal, non-Rapidfire updates that the main program sends. As it stands, I have seen no negative affects in the data due to doing it this way.
It's still unclear to me whether Wunderground intends Rapidfire updates to be a permanent feature.
Jim
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From: "Dr. Simon J. Melhuish" <simon at melhuish.info>
> David Dean wrote:
> > Hi again
> > On Thursday 10 May 2007 16:47, Corey Touchet wrote:
> >> Okay I found it.  Did not scroll down far enough.
> >>
> >> So in reality it should be possible to modify the code to add the stuff
> >> needed for real time updates.  It could be hardcoded until a more elegant
> >> solution is put forth.
> >>
> >> On 5/10/07, Corey Touchet <coreytouchet+oww at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I've been watching oww and it appears to upload pretty consistently every
> >>> 10 seconds.  So is there a difference between the formats of a normal
> >>> update and a rapidfire one.  Does wunderground have a page describing
> >>> this?  I only see one that describes normal weather posting.
> > See http://deanostoybox.com/Oww
> > 
> > later
> > deano
> 
> Just to let you guys know, I am working on some changes to my
> wunderground uploads in Oww (slowly) - despite lack of response from
> wunderground. I agree that we do seem to need dailyrain values. However,
> this means introducing another statistic, as dailyrain is always reset
> at local midnight, whereas you may have your normal rain reset at some
> other time.
> 
> What I'm doing for rapid updates is running it off individual weather
> station updates rather than the longer integrations. This is so that we
> can fire off to wunderground 30 times a minute, for example, without
> annoying CWOP!
> 
> Keep an eye on my CVS, and you will see some of this feeding through soon.
> 
> Simon
> 
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