I am looking for info on rules for calculating Current Icon and Current Conditions?
I guess a lot of it depends on things like
- Do you have Solar Radiation Sensors, and what % is happening now?
- Do you use METAR data for clouds etc?
- How the wind affects the temperature
- If it is raining or has recently rained
- Is it day or is it night or dawn or dusk
I guess from these types of questions a simple flow of options could be formulated.
I started to doing this on the weekend on my test site
http://weather2.crowe.co.nz for current conditions.
You can get quite verbose quite easily which is better than Dry or stopped raining.
It's cool outside around 10°, the temperature has been reasonably similar over the last few hours. The sky is clear. It is very calm with no wind.
It's cold outside around 8°, the temperature has been slowly increasing over the last few hours. The sky is partly cloudy. There is a light breeze from the North .
It's cold outside around 8°, the temperature has been slowly increasing over the last few hours. The sky is overcast. There has been rain in the last 3 hours but none in the last hour. There is a light breeze from the North .
Chris
