Trixology
WeatherCat => WeatherCat Web Templates => Topic started by: xairbusdriver on October 20, 2016, 12:17:46 AM
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I really enjoy beating my head against some walls. [banghead] It sometimes keeps me from tackling certain 'honey-do' lists! [blush] Since "programming" is really nothing but typing (just ask Stu), I enjoy using up to three fingers (never more than two per hand, of course!) seeing what I can accomplish with raw electrons and simple, mostly scripting "languages". [computer]
WC has more info than I need but I wanted to 'live in the past' a bit and display some 'aviation' weather the way we used to read it on old teletype machines. Thus my voyage into gathering METAR files from NOAA/NWS. There are already many scripts around that can be used to display the basic METAR data. The real fun comes in displaying the info after the usual "RMK" element. It's a 'work in progress' and throughly brute-force, beginner-level code. Output on my site is at this page: METAR for KATL, KDFW, KEWR, KLAX, KMEM & KORD (http://mid-southweather.com/METAR.php)
So far, I'm handling:- total precipitation received during the last hour
- 6 hour maximum temps
- 6 hour minimum temps
- 3 hour pressure trend (with graphic code)
- 3 & 6 hour precipitation amounts
- 24 hour total precip
- snow depth on the ground
- liquid water equivalent of the snow on the ground
- at least one use of "variable" (usually combining two different cloud coverage amounts)
- rain/snow/TS began/ended
- conversion of several comments reporting types of weather at various cardinal directions
LTG DSNT SW
SHRA DSNT NW NE CB DSNT NE SE SW NW ACC DSNT SE
Perhaps I'll offer a viewer the option to select their own list of airports in the future. That would give me a chance to do some database work, also. (http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u666/xAirbusDriver/Thinking_zps6auyy8fj.gif) (http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u666/xAirbusDriver/cheer2_zpsuajiabdd.gif)
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Oops! Partial success. Recent report: "...A3007 RMK AO2 SLP175 ACC ALQDS"
Got the "Altocumulus clouds All Quadrants" fine but not the altimeter! That became "LQ.DS in/Hg". Not easily set on any altimeter I ever used! I think I can just check for an absolute value greater than zero... [banghead] [computer] Jachym, I'm not! cmu:-)
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Dear X-Air and WeatherCat . . . "ya' mean some people actually have free time" types?
Well now, if you really don't have that much to do, why don't you come over here because I could surely use an extra pair of hands doing . . . .
- Trimming the hedge against the street
- Mowing the lawn
- Cleaning the brushes needed to wash the cars
- Washing and waxing the two cars that still haven't gotten their winter treatment
- Cleaning out some of the junk in the garage before the fall pickup this week
- Checking that all the gutters are sufficiently clear that they can withstand the winter
- Installing the daytime running lights in my sister's car
- Repairing the outdoor outlet in front of the car port
- Installing the led shop lights in the garage
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And that doesn't include the usual cooking, cleaning, and in general keeping the house going . . . . .
Any surprise that some of my postings are . . . . a little off the mark? . . . [banghead]
Grumble, grumble, grumble . . . . . Edouard (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/D'oh.gif)