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WeatherCat => WeatherCat Feature Requests => Topic started by: Randall75 on February 11, 2013, 10:45:07 PM

Title: Snow category and editor
Post by: Randall75 on February 11, 2013, 10:45:07 PM

Hi Stu
 Since there is really no way of measuring snow with our weather stations except for stations with heated rain collectors how about adding a snow depth category and a snow editor so you can manually add daily snow depths to it then there could be a snow days and depth added to the statistics like frost days
thanks
 [cheers1]

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: Steve on February 12, 2013, 01:24:08 AM

Oh, that's a good idea! I keep track of daily new snow, snow on the ground, and snow water equivalent for both for CoCoRaHS and as a NWS Snow Observer, but there's no way to get that in my web statistics or keep track of it in WeatherCat.

Steve

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: WCDev on February 15, 2013, 11:25:03 PM

Added as a feature request - thanks for the suggestion. Any ideas about how you'd like to see it implemented - we don't get enough around here for me to know how it would be most useful. Something like the daily rain editor where you could add a total for a given date and then add some snow stats?

Cheers,
Stu.

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: Randall75 on February 15, 2013, 11:43:47 PM

Hi Stu
 Thanks for the reply yes just like the daily rain editor but a daily snow editor


thanks


 [cheers1]

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: WCDev on February 16, 2013, 11:38:19 AM

Thanks Randall, I've added it as a feature request.

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: Steve on February 18, 2013, 11:15:49 PM

I haven't been on for a few days, so sorry for the delay.

Something like the rain editor sound interesting. For the National Weather Service, twice a day I report new snow depth and snow on the ground, and on Wednesdays I report the Snow Water Equivalent (I melt a core of snow.) For CoCoRaHS, I report new snow and total on the ground each morning, and SWE on Mondays.

I don't see a need for all of that, but the option to report daily new snow and have it accumulate for monthly totals would be nice. I don't see where total snow on the ground would be beneficial, as that constantly changes as we get new snow, it settles, or melts.

Steve

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: WCDev on February 19, 2013, 05:41:34 PM

Thanks for the info Steve.

Cheers,
Stu.

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: Graydon on December 04, 2014, 03:30:27 PM

Hello, I do like and use the snow editor. Now, another request, how about being able to create a custom gauge to report on snow accumulations, just like rain and other events?

Title: Re: Snow category and editor
Post by: WCDev on December 10, 2014, 08:16:40 PM

Added to the feature request list - thanks for the suggestion  [tup]