Hi,

I am discussing with Tim Roche of WU over trello on rainfall rate in WU. 
Ideally I would have liked if WU reported instantaneous rainfall rate than 
the accumulated rainfall in last 60 minutes. Here is what Tim Roche replied 
on trello:

Rainfall rate and daily precip are inputs to the PWS data. if they are sent 
we use them.

http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Upload_Protocol


I have again replied to him with the below:


The PWS upload protocol only has below:

rainin - [rain inches over the past hour)] -- the accumulated rainfall in 
the past 60 min

This is not instantaneous rainfall rate. This is interpreted as the 
rainfall accumulated in past 60 mins and sent by weewx to WU. Some details 
on same in below thread too:
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=9155.0


I was just wondering if weewx can be hacked/modified to send instantaenous 
rainfall rates instead of SQLSUM. If so where should I make the changes? 
(restful.py)


Maybe others here can also chime in on the trello board so that we can sort 
out this issue. Reporting rainfall over last hour as rainfall rate doesn't 
make sense. Particularly in tropical areas where we may get short 5 minutes 
bursts of rains.


Trello board link:


https://trello.com/c/roVxyTpV/29-submit-bug-reports-june-july-2018


Regards,

Praveen


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