NOAA Reports

[Vathek]

Hello,
while checking for coerence for my FineOffset Rain Gauge I found a meteo station near mine that have a web page.

In the web page I found the NOAA monthly reports and opened them to check.

I found that they are a bit more detailed than cumulus ones? Would be possible to add extra data to the cumulus NOAA reports, like the Davis ones?

here an example: http://www.cavagnanometeo.it/meteo2/November_2014.txt

As you see there are pressure values, rain rates, etc... which are not (yet) in the cumlus NOAA reports...

[steve]

I based the NOAA report format very closely on the Davis ones, as generated by Weatherlink running with my VP2. That was the latest version of Weatherlink at that time (and it wasn't so long ago). So either Davis have enhanced the format very recently, or those are not generate by Weatherlink.

I tried to keep as close as possible to the Davis format as I knew that some people had software which parsed the files, and I wanted that software to work with the Cumulus versions of the reports.

[mcrossley]

The software that site uses does produce NOAA reports, but their format is the same as those produced by Cumulus. Take a look at the source code around line 309...

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                                      HEAT   COOL        AVG
    MEAN                              DEG    DEG         WIND                 DOM
DAY TEMP  HIGH   TIME   LOW    TIME   DAYS   DAYS  RAIN  SPEED HIGH   TIME    DIR
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I guess the 'NOAA' reports on the website you linked to are produced by some addition to the base program?

[Vathek]

Well, I don't know ... I saw very useful the max daily rainrate near the daily rain total since it can highlight when the rain was heavy or not.

And with that information I concluded that my FineOfsset was underestimating ONLY on heavy rain days while on normal rain days it was ok.

Anyway no problem...