MODESTO Percent of Normal Rainfall
| Date | 2014 | 2013 |
| 21-Dec-14 | 218 | 42 |
| 22-Dec-14 | 213 | 41 |
| 23-Dec-14 | 209 | 40 |
| 24-Dec-14 | 204 | 40 |
| 25-Dec-14 | 200 | 39 |
| 26-Dec-14 | 197 | 38 |
| 27-Dec-14 | 193 | 37 |
| 28-Dec-14 | 190 | 37 |
Speaking of rain, I checked out the forecast for California for the upcoming week, and it doesn't look so good. Dry weather as far as the eye can see for most of the state. That 2014 percent of normal number is going to keep falling.
A recap of how this project works
- Ubuntu server running as a virtual machine under Win7 using the free VMWare Player.
- PHP script running as a root cron job at 1230 every day, harvesting data by scraping this page using the simple_html_dom PHP library.
- MySQL database with two tables, city name and percent of normal, data injected from the aforementioned PHP scraper script.
- PHP scripting on a local Dreamweaver site running on the aforementioned Ubuntu virtual server to extract the data from the database and format it as a table.
2 comments:
Since I'm not at all familiar with the normal amount of rainfall in Modesto in December, just how wet (or dry) are we talking about here? Is this a case of normally getting, say, 12 inches per month and having it jump up to 24 (which would be quite a soaking), or is it more like a quarter of an inch increasing to half an inch (which might not even be all that noticeable without careful data collection)?
(if we got a 200% increase in precipitation in Houghton, it would be quite a disaster between the flooding and the buildings collapsing from the snow load)
Modesto has received 7.7 inches since July 1st of this year. An inch of rain would be about 30 percent of normal for year to date. I don't know why the rain year starts on July 1st. Some agricultural reason, perhaps?
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