Record-breaking floods in the Northern Rivers regions of the state of New South Wales in Australia last year has set us looking for a way to report hourly, or more frequent, rainfall intensity, to better inform those downstream.
As the official gauge network is sparse and flaky, our present 'solution' is a few human Rain Sentinels' who live high up in the catchment. They agree to read their gauges hourly and get the readings out, by phone as long as that lasts (not very), then CB radio. We haven't had much success with off-the-shelf weather stations, but maybe there are WeeWx gurus who would know how to help script such a reporting function. I've bought a couple of 8" tipping bucket gauges, and am playing with Arduino code to keep daily, tips per minute files, on a local SD card, to be relayed on to a LORA-APRS system (o.n.o), and as last resort, on a local display. Any guidance or assistance very welcome. Greg VK2GTH - -- 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/350d54ea-c0b3-449a-8bd7-5b44ae6e0939n%40googlegroups.com.
