Here's the version from the Bodega Marine Lab: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=46013&meas=wdpr&uom=E&time_diff=-7&time_label=PDT
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Alec Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Thomas Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, but it is not possible. >> >> It's been asked for many times, but would require a pretty substantial >> rewrite of weeplot, as well as some creative use of ConfigObj. >> >> Your hack is actually not so crazy. >> > > Well alright then, liberal amounts of duct tape have been applied! See > attached. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > I still need to clean it up a bit and maybe not show gusts as well, and > change the color scheme, but that's the work in progress. > > > It's been asked for many times > > In that case I'll mention that my method was to edit genplot.py and > imagegenerator.py so if a filename has "-trans" in it, it builds just the > plot line on a transparent background with no labels. And every time a > regular graph is built it searches for a file with the same name but > "-trans" appended to it, and if found pastes it over the current graph. So > in the above example it built a transparent version of the barometer graph > with no labels and then pasted it over the wind graph. It's a kludge but it > works, and it required as little hard coding of parameters that I could > think of. > > Let me know if there's interest and I'll post this hack to my github page, > but fair warning it's *very* hacky, and currently it doesn't have the > ability to draw the Y axis labels for the 2nd item (in this case the > barometer). And of course it's not a regular user extension so it'll get > overwritten with any weewx updates. > > > Just out of curiosity - is there a specific reason for plotting > windspeed/wind gust together with pressure? > > So we can see fronts moving through, which affect the wind speed, or so > our theory goes. Together with the wind direction vector chart, which is > shown right below this in the iOS app I'm working on, people can get a > good idea of weather changes with just two graphs. At least that's our > theory. And a biggie for us is that we're duplicating some functionality > from the Bodega Marine Lab near us (run by the University of California at > Davis), which has this same chart. > > [image: Inline image 2] > > But > > > > > > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
