About:
WeatherGraph periodically contacts the US National Weather Service and downloads METAR aviation weather information, databases it, then generates a set of rolling graphs suitable for presentation on a Web page.

Author:
Frank Pineau [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.40/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://weathergraph.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/weathergraph/weathergraph-1.61.tar.gz
Demo site:
http://weathergraph.sourceforge.net/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Scientific/Engineering, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.61	22-Jan-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Dewpoint would be better than wind/heat index
by vortmax - Aug 1st 2001 19:15:37

As a meteorologist, the better thing to do would be to plot dewpoint temperature rather than the heat/windchill. I would make heat/windchill a seperate graph or just have it as a listed item along with the high low....something like current stress index = ###

Otherwise, I find this to be a very useful program. Great job.

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[»] Re: Dewpoint would be better than wind/heat index
by Frank Pineau - Aug 1st 2001 19:26:20


> As a meteorologist, the better thing to
> do would be to plot dewpoint temperature
> rather than the heat/windchill. I would
> make heat/windchill a seperate graph or
> just have it as a listed item along with
> the high low....something like current
> stress index = ###
>
> Otherwise, I find this to be a very
> useful program. Great job.
I thought about this, but to be most useful for simply seeing what the temperature is like outside, Heat Index and Wind Chill are more appropriate (which was partly why I originally wrote it). It would be different if you were to use it for meteorilogical analysis.

In version 2.0 of the script, I plan to specifically show dewpoint and/or relative humidity (as well as some other data), but I haven't decided yet how to present it. Possibly (but not necessarily) on another graph.

I'd also like to include daily high/low and possibly even forecast/actual comparisons.

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