This site is made with CumulusUtils, a generator tool for HTML
presentation of weather data, retrieved from a weather station
powered by
Cumulus(MX)
(all versions). CumulusUtils is built and © by Hans Rottier.
It can be freely used an distributed under the Creative Commons
4.0 license (see Licenses). You can find it
here.
With a background in Forestry, chemistry and ICT, I picked up some
loose threads of my life and started developing a Top10 list and -
above all - a Fire Weather Index. This quickly went out of hand
and more modules followed. Finally, the idea of a standard website
generator followed. I started out in C on the RPi, quickly changed
to C#, to create a similar environment as CumulusMX itself. Out of
this, within 6 months, grew CumulusUtils. Version 3.0 is the first
release of the website generator but all versions can be used for
the single modules as well. CumulusUtils is primarily for
cooperation with CumulusMX but on a modular level - not all
modules - it can work with Cumulus 1 as well.
CumulusUtils stands on the shoulders of the following:
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CumulusMX
by Steve Loft (retired). Now maintained by Mark Crossley who
also did the Gauges (based on the Steelseries). Beteljuice,
user on the Cumulus forum, who, often unsollicited, provided
advice and ideas. He made a large range of PHP/javascript
tools to enhance the basic sites.
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Ken True of
Saratoga Weather
(Read the About of that site!), Murry Conarroe of
Wildwood Weather
had something to do with it.
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Many sites I visited showed an enormous diversity and
originality and therefore generated ideas. Look here for
a list of sites (the first 15), carrying CumulusUtils (or part of it), which inspired and
contributed to the development and testing of the tool.
Notably
Phil’s Backyard, which quickly became my first test site in the fire summer
of 2020 in NSW Autralia. Thanks Phil! Also PaulMy's 'Komoka'
played an important role closely followed by
Kocher.es and
Meyenheim. And last but not least
Mark Crossley's site.
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Finally, FWIcalc by Graeme Kates.
FWIcalc, has been developed (from 2002 to 2014) by Graeme Kates in
New Zealand, on the basis of the
FWI (Fire Weather Index), developed in Canada and also used in New-Zealand and
France. Some other indices like the
Angstrom
and the
CBI (Chandler Burning Index)
are calculated by FWIcalc as well. Although pwsFWI has
theoretically nothing to do with FWIcalc, it definitly is
linked to it from a genealogists point of view.
