While yesterday's rain total isn't exactly a current condition, I would like to have the display page show the amount of rain from yesterday.
I know there are different ideas on when rain totals should zero out, but I'm asking for something slightly different, and for me, would add to the usefulness. I'm thinking of the situation that often occurs when a storm series moves through, with say 1/2" or so of rain before midnight, then even more after midnight, say 1/4" in the new day. It is really all the same storm, and not worth the logic to have it done automatically, but to glance at the summary page and see today's rain is 1/4", when the storm total is 3/4" would really work better to list what yesterday's rain was right after today's total so far. I don't know how the inner structure of WeeWx works, so one way would be, if the variable is available, to have today's rain total saved at midnight to a new variable called YesterdayRain, then zero the today's rain variable. It seems simple,but I don't know if the ordinary user would have the ability to modify WeeWx to make this work. Is there already this Yesterday's Rain value available, and if so by what name? Can we add a display line to the skin that generates the standard page, or not? Another way to do it would be have the database total up yesterdays rain with a date range but this seems to be a lot of work, involve accessing the data base for no added reason, if one just had the YesterdaysRain already stored. Just some thoughts. So far this is the only tweak I've thought of that WeeWx doesn't seem to already do. Python is really beyond my current skills, and while I know some might whip this together in short order with their programming knowledge, I don't know how to find the stored variables already, or fiddle around with it and screw something up. Dale ecwx.info/weewx (There are no error logs, there is nothing to submit, other than my idea). -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e2e9a789-5ba0-4f29-8eb1-dead4a3a022bo%40googlegroups.com.
