Ah, yes -- the NOAA text reports.  I has them.  They are in 
/var/www/html/weewx/NOAA/ and are generated automagically.

It seems that the weeWX Image Generator really needs recode functionality 
(in SPSS parlance [I'm probably dating myself here.]) so that basic 
re-scaling, axis offsets, and the like could be achieved ad hoc by 
specifying the calculations to be done without storing the calculated 
values.  Wouldn't it be neat if it were that simple?

What I'd like to see is a graph, not a table of figures.  I can deal with 
figures, but graphs are more compelling.  Cumulative heating-degree days 
rises more rapidly in late spring than in early spring.  Somewhere you come 
to "biofix," the first reliably detectable presence of adult male moths.  
This is usually specified as a date although it may just as well be the 
cumulative heating-degree days on that date.  Consider a conventional 
timeline of degrees.  You would place a horizontal line where cumulative 
heating-degree days crosses biofix.  Then subsequent intersections of other 
degree lines with cumulative heating-degree days at various degree 
intervals above biofix indicate dates when repeated treatments for larva 
will be most effective.  This is not date-controlled; it's degree-based.  
Of course, to appreciate how soon the days of treatment will come, you need 
to visualize how fast heating-degree days are accumulating.  Hence, the 
need for a graph.

I think this could be achieved by providing a background image for the 
chart (not the image) with the horizontal rules already in place and then 
scaling the plotted line to fit the static background.  That shouldn't be 
too much of a stretch, unlike charting calculated values instead of stored 
values.

Perhaps I'd be better off just to write a complete generator for this 
application.

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