Custom graph series - total storm precipitation?

[elagache]

Dear WeatherCat fans,

Now that we are back into drought mode, I have been looking longingly at the deluge of rain we got from Febuary 6 to 10.  Here is one of my graphs that shows it:



Thinking about this graph and others like, I started to wonder if I really wanted to plot daily precipitation.  The graph of daily precipitation seems misleading to me.  Basically it didn't stop raining for 4 days so there is no "reset" at midnight.  The real "mountain of blue" should have been each of the 4 "mountains" stacked on top of the other.  What I needed to worry about was the graph of increasing storm precipitation.  It is that amount of water that was overwhelming everything from the soil to the storm drains.  Since WeatherCat already has a custom tag to return the current storm total - doesn't seem that difficult to add a graph series of total storm precipitation to that point in time info to the custom graph framework.

What does you'all think?  Would this be a graph series that would appeal to the WeatherCat user community?

Cheers, Edouard 

[Bull Winkus]

Sounds like a useful graph to me, if I understand you correctly. You want a custom graph that starts the accumulated total rainfall from first precipitation recorded, or as rainfall rate moves off of zero, and continues until rainfall rate falls back to zero, even if it is several days later?

[elagache]

Hi Herb and WeatherCat fans,

Sounds like a useful graph to me, if I understand you correctly. You want a custom graph that starts the accumulated total rainfall from first precipitation recorded, or as rainfall rate moves off of zero, and continues until rainfall rate falls back to zero, even if it is several days later?

Oops, it isn't as simple as I imagined except for those of us who have Davis stations, but perhaps it should be implemented only for Davis station owners like evapotranspiration.  Basically all I'm asking for is to be able to have a graph of the WeatherCat RS$ web tag as you'll find on page 175 of the WeatherCat manual.  The Davis console manual describes this total as computed like this:

Rain Storm displays the rain total of the last rain event.  It takes two tips of rain bucket to begin a storm event and 24 hours without rain to end a rain event.

That sounds like as reasonable a definition of a storm event as any.

So that's what I was thinking about.

Cheers, Edouard 

[Blicj11]

I like it.

[nowait]

I like the idea too.

[Bull Winkus]

Sounds good to me!

[elagache]

Dear Herb, Blick, NoWait, and WeatherCat fans,

Thanks for your support!

I suspect that if I had this series, I would add it to this graph rather than replace the daily precipitation: 



If you add storm total you would simply have "taller mountains" in times of particular wet storms.  I think it would be helpful if you are in a situation were flooding or landslides are possible.

Cheers, Edouard 

[WCDev]

I've copied the whole thread into the bug tracker as a feature request 

[elagache]

Howdy Stu and WeatherCat fans,

I've copied the whole thread into the bug tracker as a feature request 

Thanks Stu! 

Hope it is a simple and comparatively painless thing to implement.

Cheers, Edouard