Actual sunshine is a major factor in Evapotranspiration estimates. Any data from sunshine recorders or solar radiation measurements would be useful to optimize water usage at a more granular level.
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While not precise to the second, given a selection of Astronomy in your request, you would have:
"sunrise": {
"hour": "7",
"minute": "01"
},
"sunset": {
"hour": "16",
"minute": "56"
}
So your span would be 9 hours and 55 minutes.
--hsm
"sunrise": {
"hour": "7",
"minute": "01"
},
"sunset": {
"hour": "16",
"minute": "56"
}
So your span would be 9 hours and 55 minutes.
--hsm
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This is the astronomical duration of possible daylight hours, not the actual time the sun was in the sky. As it stands now, I would have to scan all the hours in the historical data, map "Partly Cloudy", etc to percentages, and add them up. There is quite a bit of error in that.
Also, this is not available in the historical data, so if you missed a day, it would be a pain.
If it is easy, it would be awesome. I think a lot of people are trying to use the data for envirotranspiration, and a radiation estimate is pretty key.
Also, this is not available in the historical data, so if you missed a day, it would be a pain.
If it is easy, it would be awesome. I think a lot of people are trying to use the data for envirotranspiration, and a radiation estimate is pretty key.
Tim Roche, Official Rep
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Thanks for your feature request, While it isn't in our product pipeline, we'll keep your usage case in mind for future products.
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I absolutely miss a forecast of sunshine duration, mainly for heating control purposes like deciding wheter to heat the boiler or wait for the sun doing this...
Is that "usage case" as you call it still trapped in a mind or already released into productive freedom? Would be great to have such a forecast at hand!
Is that "usage case" as you call it still trapped in a mind or already released into productive freedom? Would be great to have such a forecast at hand!
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The code sample at https://github.com/davemiedema/envirotranspiration will calculate how much sunshine happened yesterday. It could in theory do a prediction on the sunshine duration for the upcoming day if you had an hourly cloud cover prediction.
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Thanks!
I actually wrote a python script to calculate total solar radiation based on lat/long, estimate the radiation at ground level based on the text strings in the historical data, and then estimate the amount of evaporation during the previous day. Maybe I will post it here so others can use it.
Dave
I actually wrote a python script to calculate total solar radiation based on lat/long, estimate the radiation at ground level based on the text strings in the historical data, and then estimate the amount of evaporation during the previous day. Maybe I will post it here so others can use it.
Dave
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Hello Dave,
Could you post your script? My team is looking for that information.
Thank you!
Could you post your script? My team is looking for that information.
Thank you!
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