[Xastir] Rainfall

[Ray Wells]

Piotr,

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issues such alerts and warnings and 
these are already displayed by xastir. My aim is to add to this 
information with current rainfall figures and I am almost there.

Ray vk2tv



On 25/10/10 16:44, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote:
>> Jason,
>>
>> I'm looking to amend just my copy of xastir to suit a particular 
>> local need.
>>
>> By way of explanation, the Linux box providing the weather display for
>
> Hello. around here Czech weather stations (or operators...) use
> another technique. when rainfall exceeds 'safe' levels, and
> weather predictions suggest further rainfall, flood warnings are issued,
> and placed on the map.
>
> Flood warnings are graded with plain numbers, with names of endangered
> places, number representing 'level' of warning.
>
> i am not sure if the warning points are placed automatically by
> weather station(s) or operators, but method seems good enough,
> and besides just displaying information, it provides data to other APRS
> users - which is far nicer for me personally than any Czech radio 
> broadcast as - being Polish - i do not speak Czech fluently at all :)
>
> ofc. data is also updated 'live' and accodring to changes in weather
> forecast , so warning points are quite accurate and represent not only
> current status, but also future (the warn-level number) situation in
> very clear way one can interpret with just single look on the map :)
>
> greetings
>