Howdy Herb and WeatherCat power users,
I have tried in the past to find peak rainfall amounts, being only vaguely aware of when and by how much, and found it an arduous task to relocate the data. I'm not sure where you want this reported, but I think easier access to peak rain rates for each event would be welcome.
Well thinking about the problem I found a way to get the answer in the interim. You can used the STAT tag. The easiest way to do this is with a little AppleScript like this (also attached:)
local rainRate, rainTime
tell application "WeatherCat"
set Query to "STAT$RAIN:MAX:ALLTIME$"
set rainRate to QueryResultString
set Query to "STAT$RAIN:MAX:ALLTIME:TIME$"
set rainTime to QueryResultString
end tell
rainRate & " inches/hr on " & rainTime
However, when I tried running this, I got what I was convinced was a ridiculous answer:
"23.04 inches/hr on 4 Feb 2016 5:19 PM"Eventually though, I realized that this data was from that "terrible storm" when my rain gauge got plugged:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2028.0So I came up with a modified script to find out what was the highest real peak rainfall rate:
local rainRate, rainTime
tell application "WeatherCat"
set Query to "STAT$RAIN:MAX:2009-10-01/2016-02-01$"
set rainRate to QueryResultString
set Query to "STAT$RAIN:MAX:2009-10-01/2016-02-01:TIME$"
set rainTime to QueryResultString
end tell
rainRate & " inches/hr on " & rainTime
When I run that I find that the storm Saturday wasn't the worse rain event we've ever had here but an event at the end of 2009:
"10.67 inches/hr on 7 Dec 2009 11:35 AM"It is definitely one of those "when you get around it" sort of requests, but I would like to have this sort of thing listed as a record . . . . In the meantime, I'd better purge my data of that 23.04" of rain per hour event!
Cheers, Edouard