Never thought it could happen

[Gerard Cerchio]

When I set up my station I wrote in 2 rain gauges, a weekly and an annual. I had never seen more than 3 inches of rain in a week so I set a 4 rain inch high graphic for the week. In this single past week we got more rain then we got all year. Who'd a thunk that?

[Graham Eddy]

i was travelling when it flooded back home (se oz) 6 weeks ago. lots of folk watch my river depth graph so as the value unexpectedly went off the top of graph, i updated the y-scale to compensate a few times. someone asked me to stop increasing it because i was dragging the river level up :-)

⊣GE⊢

On 1 Jan 2023, at 10:21 am, Gerard Cerchio <gjce...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I set up my station I wrote in 2 rain gauges, a weekly and an annual. I had never seen more than 3 inches of rain in a week so I set a 4 rain inch high graphic for the week. In this single past week we got more rain then we got all year. Who'd a thunk that?

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[vince]

Here between Seattle+Tacoma the Pacific North Wet laughs at your thresholds :-)

Not a bad year here, pretty typical.  About 37 inches and 160 days rain.  We've had worse in both directions.

Rainiest month here was dec'2015 at 11.05" rain

I suspect those in hurricane country just think "so you had 11 inches one month eh - dude that was yesterday here..."

On Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 3:21:07 PM UTC-8 gjce...@gmail.com wrote:

When I set up my station I wrote in 2 rain gauges, a weekly and an annual. I had never seen more than 3 inches of rain in a week so I set a 4 rain inch high graphic for the week. In this single past week we got more rain then we got all year. Who'd a thunk that?

Here's my autoscaling code for daily rain.  Salt to taste for weekly rain with different thresholds...

<canvas id="rainTotalCanvasGauge"></canvas>
<script>

    // these will come from weewx eventually
    // var rainValue = 0.17
    var rainValue = $day.rain.sum.formatted

    // change scale based on value for readability
    if (rainValue < 100) { maxValue = 15; minorTicks =  4; majorTicks = [ '0','5','10','15' ] };
    if (rainValue < 5)   { maxValue = 5;  minorTicks =  5; majorTicks = [ '0','1','2','3','4','5' ]            };
    if (rainValue < 3)   { maxValue = 3;  minorTicks = 10; majorTicks = [ '0','0.5','1','1.5','2','2.5','3' ]  };
    if (rainValue < 1)   { maxValue = 1;  minorTicks = 10; majorTicks = [ '0','0.2','0.4','0.6','0.8','1.00' ] };

    var rainTotalGauge = new LinearGauge({
        value: rainValue,
        renderTo: rainTotalCanvasGauge,
        width: 100,
        height: 200,
        borders: true,
        strokeTicks: true,
        barBeginCircle: false,
        borderShadowWidth: "0",
        units: "inches",
        valueDec: 2,
        valueInt: 1,
        minValue: 0,
        maxValue: maxValue,
        valueBox: 1,
        colorBarProgress: "lightsalmon",
        colorBar: "white",
        minorTicks: minorTicks,
        majorTicks: majorTicks,

    });
    rainTotalGauge.draw();
</script>