[wxqc] PWS format, rainin versus dailyrainin?

[Ted Lum]

Yes it should. See here: 
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNJMERCE2&month=6&day=14&year=2008

However, the chart is rate so I believe they calculate rate by taking 
the delta between your samples.

William P.N. Smith wrote:
> I've written some Perl code to transmogrify the data from a Campbell 
> Scientific CR10X datalogger into the PWS format, and it's mostly 
> working, but wunderground.com doesn't seem to be logging rainfall.
>
> There are two parameters for rainfall, rainin and dailyrainin:
>
> from http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Upload_Protocol
> rainin - [rain inches over the past hour)] -- the accumulated 
> rainfall in the past 60 min
> dailyrainin - [rain inches so far today in local time]
>
> I can get rain in the last 5-minute sample, or total rain today, but 
> rain over the last hour will require some datalogger reprogramming 
> (or more complex transmogrification code to get hourly deltas from 
> total rain today), so I'm using the dailyrainin parameter.
>
> http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IPINECAY2&day=16&year=2008&month=6&graphspan=week 
> shows no rain this week,though the datalogger saw 0.12 inches of rain 
> on Sunday.
>
> I've turned on the verbose logging, so I can see exactly what I'm 
> sending to wunderground.com, but now I have to wait for some rain to 
> see exactly what's happening.
>
> Does anyone know if dailyrainin is supposed to show up on the charts?
>
> Thanks!
>   


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