Programming

Predictions of pwsFWI

HansR
11/02/201911/02/2019

Introduction

The past months I blogged several times about my Fire Weather Index for personal weather stations on the basis of Cumulus as data acquisition software. So if you’re new here and don’t know what pwsFWI is about, check out the previous blogs on the subject. Currently, pwsFWI is part of a small software package named CumulusUtils. This meteo website/blog is the home of the package which is distributed through the Cumulus support forum. If you have a weather station which can cooperate with Cumulus, don’t hesitate and get it, it’s free.

Behaviour of pwsFWI with first rain

HansR
10/06/201911/02/2019

One of the goals of the current implementation of pwsFWI is to see its behaviour under all conditions. It is therefore very interesting to see that behaviour in the two stations in semi-arid zones (in Australia and in Spain) where long dry periods may suddenly alternate with rain after which the drought returns. Read More »Behaviour of pwsFWI with first rain

Corrections to the August-Roche-Magnus equation in pwsFWI

HansR
09/26/201911/02/2019

Now that version 0.9.0 of my Fire Weather Index for personal weather stations (pwsFWI) has been released in the context of CumulusUtils (I may separate it later into an independent program), it is time to look at formula corrections.

On the programming of CumulusUtils

HansR
09/15/201911/02/2019

Introduction

Having developed theoretically a Fire Weather Index (see my pwsFWI) and creating a first implementation of it in C for analytical purposes, I needed to take the software a bit further to make it more robust and useful. I had some feedback which made me realize it was urgent to have a good Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Personal Weather Stations (PWSs).

This blog is about the context and the actual programming requirements.