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Precipitation total only shows for rain, and not snow #255

Open SlidingHorn opened 5 years ago

SlidingHorn commented 5 years ago

Title explains...for an example, see the entry for Cleveland for Dec 31 & Jan 1...

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RichardDooling commented 5 years ago

I experience the same. I see no data for snow accumulation.

webarnes commented 5 years ago

It looks like a limitation of the WorldWeatherOnline source. The field is labelled "Rain" on their website. It's not the customary "Probability of precipitation" figure. In my town, I have the odd situation of having it forecast "Blizzard" with what looks like 0% POP.

I don't think the source handles snow very well. I pulled up historical data for a day last week that I know for a fact (because I shovelled it) had more than 30cm of snow. WorldWeatherOnline totalled 2mm precipitation for the day.

chubin commented 5 years ago

Yes, that's true. WWO has many limitations and some other drawbacks, so we should support several backends anyway.

webarnes commented 5 years ago

Darksky.net is interesting. It's free for 1000 API calls per day. It has rain and snow forecasts. I've used the app and it sometimes very accurately gives forecasts like "Rain stopping in 11 minutes".

chubin commented 5 years ago

Yes, I know about this service, I even experimented with it already. I think that we could at its support