Waterlevel.ie and daily rainfall

stylie

Hi,

Is there a site where you can get a daily rainfall amount and that also store their data for a couple of weeks. I want to correlate http://waterlevel.ie/ charts with rainfall amounts and hopefully be able to predict how much a river will rise. My hobby is fishing and guesstimating river and lake height in advance is pretty useful.

Thanks

Speak Now

stylie wrote: »

Hi,

Is there a site where you can get a daily rainfall amount and that also store their data for a couple of weeks. I want to correlate http://waterlevel.ie/ charts with rainfall amounts and hopefully be able to predict how much a river will rise. My hobby is fishing and guesstimating river and lake height in advance is pretty useful.

Thanks

Met Eireann show the previous days rain for all the weather stations daily.

downwiththatsor

stylie wrote: »

Hi,

Is there a site where you can get a daily rainfall amount and that also store their data for a couple of weeks. I want to correlate http://waterlevel.ie/ charts with rainfall amounts and hopefully be able to predict how much a river will rise. My hobby is fishing and guesstimating river and lake height in advance is pretty useful.

Thanks

Many thanks for the link, i did not know that data was live.
Will be usefull for fishing and tide heights for tidal stations.
As well as the Met Eireann station data there are some more Independent stations with rainfall data on Irish Weather Network -

http://www.irelandsweather.com/

If you click the Data Tab you can hover over the rainfall figure and a 24 hour graph appears, or click on the individual station for its data.

I think Met Eireann's data for the previous day does not become available till 10am or later the following day? The ME Latest reports page shows rainfall for the past hour at a station but i dont know if todays total rainfall since the previous midnight for ME stations is available anywhere which would give an up to date rainfall figure in realtime.

The independent stations do have these rolling daily totals.

Regards

Harps

Ogimet have an hourly breakdown of data for every hour back to the 90's for all the met synoptic stations, its updated every 3 hours I think

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&state=Irel&osum=no&fmt=html&ord=REV&ano=2013&mes=04&day=18&hora=18&ndays=1&Send=send

For individual station data, hover over its name then put the number thats shown before the station name into the box here then choose a time period

www.ogimet.com/gsynres.phtml.en

downwiththatsor

Harps wrote: »

Ogimet have an hourly breakdown of data for every hour back to the 90's for all the met synoptic stations, its updated every 3 hours I think

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&state=Irel&osum=no&fmt=html&ord=REV&ano=2013&mes=04&day=18&hora=18&ndays=1&Send=send

For individual station data, hover over its name then put the number thats shown before the station name into the box here then choose a time period

www.ogimet.com/gsynres.phtml.en

Thanks Harps, thats just what i was looking for.

octo

downwiththatsor wrote: »

Thanks Harps, thats just what i was looking for.

Ogimet can be mistaken. It's rainfall taken from the hourly synoptic reports and not properly tabulated.

downwiththatsor

It would be great to have a smartphone app that could display the water level data of a specific station taken from waterlevel.ie as a widget or dedicated app.

riffmongous

stylie wrote: »

Hi,

Is there a site where you can get a daily rainfall amount and that also store their data for a couple of weeks. I want to correlate http://waterlevel.ie/ charts with rainfall amounts and hopefully be able to predict how much a river will rise. My hobby is fishing and guesstimating river and lake height in advance is pretty useful.

Thanks

Interesting idea, do an x-y plot of the rainfall and precipitation for a full year, it might not always be linear depending on the region of interest.

stylie

downwiththatsor wrote: »

It would be great to have a smartphone app that could display the water level data of a specific station taken from waterlevel.ie as a widget or dedicated app.

Hi,

This is a quick and dirty app for Killavullen that took 1m to do.

http://www.appsgeyser.com/getwidget/WaterLevelChecker/

in the link for the waterlevel of choice look at the url
http://waterlevel.ie/0000018003/0001/

the 0000018003 is the station and the 0001 is the type of graph.

downwiththatsor

Many thanks for that, now if i only knew how to change the station :rolleyes:
Can this be done once installed, works perfectly as is.
Would i have to edit the apk?

Cheers

stylie

Just log into the site
http://www.appsgeyser.com/
and follow their steps. You can only enter one url as its very very basic but in my case the 1 url is enough

jaredGalen

Here's something I'm working on in my spare time.
I'll be releasing an app to display the data a bit more easily but that's down the line a bit

http://www.riverwatch.ie

It uses OPW data and you can plot rainfall data against the waterlevels.
e.g. http://riverwatch.ie/waterlevels/monthly/0000003058

Early days but feedback welcome, ideally through the contact page.

Sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread but seemed relevant.