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.
An example for this top10 approach you will find on the weather site.
As a variation to existing top10 lists, I wrote a small program (in C) which reads dayfile.txt from Cumulus once per day just after midnight and for selected measurements it creates a sorted top10-list. From that list it creates a HTML-table and writes that to a text-file. That file can be included by the user on a website wherever he wants simply by a PHP-include (which is the easy way to include I think).