Re: Proper way to display precipatation?

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Donovan A. Huff" <do...@hu...> writes:

> What is the proper way to display the precipitation data?

There's really no correct way... It's only some stations that reports
the precipitation in their reports. The METAR for KVCT is

  KVCT 291451Z AUTO 10006KT 8SM -RA BKN022 23/23 A3001 RMK AO2

There's no information about the amount of precipitation. But there's
a '-RA' part which is what the images.inc file uses to select an image
with light rain.

So, you cannot expect the 'precip_6h_in' entry to be set, just because
it's raining - sorry.

Perhaps you could use the 'weather' entry instead of precipitation? It
says 'Light Rain' at the moment...

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