Station Notes

We had quite a storm here, yesterday! The station only recorded .44 liquid equivalent, which is about half of what I think we received. A fellow weather enthusiast reported 13" of snow for New Holland. With the way it was blowing all around the house, I really did not know the best spot to measure, so I will agree with that amount. The web site received a record 75 unique visitors. I don't count the 105 recorded once, we won't talk about that.

New WXSIM Hourly Forecast CSV Script
I added a script to display the Wxsim forecast in an hourly manner. I really like this display! You can view it here. See the regular format WXSIM forecast. If you wish to add it to your web site, you can download it here.

WXSIM is a forecast generated by NH PA Weather. It rivals the National Weather Service in accuracy.

edit- The picture is now clickable.

Back in August, I had written a simple script to calculate the snowfall equivalency from the melt in the rain gage. Today I finally got a chance to see if it works. It didn't! It showed snowfall as equal to the melt in the rain gage. I changed the script, for this temperature it should be 10 X the melt. This is based on the chart here. This is only an approximation, the actual amount of snowfall can be much more, or much less. The script only shows up when the temp is below 34.1. Look for the results of the script on the home page, under the rain section.

Weather Display now has 3D charts! I added a page with the monthly rainfall vs the average chart. You can see it here. You can also find it on the charts menu, it is the bottom item. There is another chart that I like, but it does not show all the data that it is supposed to. It should show the difference between this year's temps and last year's. I will add it to the menu, if Windy ever corrects it. You can view the .gif here.