# Rolling Rainfall total

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 3, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780 "2023-08-03T19:12:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![kc0nox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kc0nox](https://community.tempest.earth/u/kc0nox)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780/1 "2023-08-03T19:12:16Z")

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Would like to have having rolling 3 hr & 6 hr rainfall totals. Storms don’t fall in 24 hr time periods 🙂

Thanks, Joe

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**Author:** ![sunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/sunny/32/16368_2.png) [@sunny](https://community.tempest.earth/u/sunny)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780/2 "2023-08-03T19:56:26Z")

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but they also don’t fall in 3hr or 6hr periods. It would be hard to automate that so it works for all storms (even those longer than 3 or 6 hours or for two half hour storms within 3 or 6 hours) (not impossible, but hard).  
The amount of rainfall is mainly interested for crops, in which case a rolling 3 or 6 hour total isn’t very useful.  
But somehow I still like the idea of a rolling total. Perhaps more if it is something like total rain in last event, where an event would be defined as a period of continuous rain with no more than a 5 minute interruption.

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**Author:** ![kc0nox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kc0nox](https://community.tempest.earth/u/kc0nox)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780/3 "2023-08-03T20:12:09Z")

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That would work. I would think a gap of an hour or two to separate actual storms.

The NWS stations do report rolling rain totals, though.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/2X/a/aecde68b77d45743412ff1a029b4758b77cddd08.png)

Joe Dietrick, KC0NOX  
Emergency Coordinator, Livingston Co. ARES  
Chillicothe MO

Grudgingly sent from an iPhone

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**Author:** ![vinceskahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vinceskahan/32/2785_2.png) [@vinceskahan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vinceskahan)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780/4 "2023-08-03T21:49:28Z")

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you might consider voting for your own request 🙂

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**Author:** ![kc0nox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kc0nox](https://community.tempest.earth/u/kc0nox)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780/5 "2023-08-03T22:26:39Z")

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👍. Guess I thought posting it would start with 1 vote. Thanks

Joe Dietrick, KC0NOX  
Emergency Coordinator, Livingston Co. ARES  
Chillicothe MO

Grudgingly sent from an iPhone

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**Author:** ![mabeatty1978](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/mabeatty1978/32/15139_2.png) [@mabeatty1978](https://community.tempest.earth/u/mabeatty1978)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780/6 "2023-08-04T17:02:36Z")

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You can get the rain accumulation in the last hour from the REST API. You could probably use something like IFTTT to get this info logged to a spreadsheet. If you have any programming experience or a hunkering to learn, could also write some fairly simple program to do it.

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**Author:** ![iladyman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/iladyman/32/2305_2.png) [@iladyman](https://community.tempest.earth/u/iladyman)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/rolling-rainfall-total/21780/7 "2023-08-05T00:21:16Z")

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Anything that floods due to the rate it can drain like a creek or gutter could also be of interest. In my display I graph the rain rate to give myself a visual quantity over time.  
And if you wish to create a display to suit your specific decay time then there is a thread describing how to import your data into excel.  
Thanks to @sunny [Excel trick to get data directly from tempest - #13 by sunny](https://community.tempest.earth/t/excel-trick-to-get-data-directly-from-tempest/17118/13)  
Cheers Ian 🙂