I hadn’t realised how many hourly rainfall reports were available in the SYNOPSYNOP SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by manned and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically mad hourly and consist of groups of numbers (and slashes where data is not available) describing general weather information, such as the temperature, barometric pressure and visibility at a weather station. reports I download from OGIMET, so I finally decided to write an additional dedicated viewer to my SYNOP application to view them with. The viewer consists of the usual interlinked data grid to view each hourly total, a map to plot those hourly values on, and a chart in the form of a hyetograph for the selected station. I’ve added the ability to produce an animated GIF of the map as it steps through each selected hour. I’ll add an animation when I get a suitable weather situation. I haven’t checked to see how closely the hourly totals match up to the 6, 12, and 24 hourly reported values but you would think if the AWSAWS Automatic Weather Station software was doing its job right they should be the same. The only trouble is hourly values of one mm or more are in whole numbers.
The next logical step would be to add hourly data from the EAEA The Environment Agency is a non-departmental public body, established in 1996 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with responsibilities relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment in England., SEPASEPA The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is Scotland's principal environmental regulator, protecting and improving Scotland's environment. and whatever the Welsh versions called, I do have separate applications for the EA and the SEPA but it might be quite a task to meld three into one.