Rain/Snow Icon not Showing in Currently Section

[cloneofghosts]

Did the threshold to show the precipitation icon on the currently block change? When I look at the API currently I see a precipIntensity of 0.36 so it should be showing snow as it's over the 0.25 threshold to show the snow icon. When I look in the hourly section it works like normal. My guess is that when you added the fallback to hourly data something messed up with the icon calculation in the HRRR domain?

Data from the API is below:

  "currently": {
    "time": 1677960000,
    "summary": "Cloudy",
    "icon": "cloudy",
    "nearestStormDistance": 0,
    "nearestStormBearing": 0,
    "precipIntensity": 0.36,
    "precipProbability": 0.25,
    "precipIntensityError": 0.0974,
    "precipType": "snow",
    "temperature": -0.03,
    "apparentTemperature": -1.95,
    "dewPoint": -1.09,
    "humidity": 0.93,
    "pressure": 998.9,
    "windSpeed": 5.736,
    "windGust": 12.15,
    "windBearing": 25.56,
    "cloudCover": 1.0,
    "uvIndex": 1.82,
    "visibility": 3.5,
    "ozone": 346.37
  },
...
    "hourly": {
    "summary": "Cloudy",
    "icon": "cloudy",
    "data": [
      {
        "time": 1677960000,
        "icon": "snow",
        "summary": "Snow",
        "precipIntensity": 0.2857,
        "precipProbability": 0.47,
        "precipIntensityError": 0.1053,
        "precipAccumulation": 0.2857,
        "precipType": "snow",
        "temperature": -0.02,
        "apparentTemperature": -1.95,
        "dewPoint": -1.09,
        "humidity": 0.93,
        "pressure": 998.9,
        "windSpeed": 5.74,
        "windGust": 12.15,
        "windBearing": 25.56,
        "cloudCover": 1.0,
        "uvIndex": 1.82,
        "visibility": 3.5,
        "ozone": 346.37
      },

[alexander0042]

Great catch, and sorry I didn't get to it sooner. It turned out to be a rounding problem, which spiraled into the icon selection logic. Fixed in v1.4.1, and changelog is updated!

[cloneofghosts]

@alexander0042 Thanks for the update but it doesn't appear to be fixed. I see the following when I query the API and it is still showing cloudy.

  "currently": {
    "time": 1678725780,
    "summary": "Cloudy",
    "icon": "cloudy",
    "precipIntensity": 0.4395,
    "precipProbability": 0.94,
    "precipIntensityError": 0.033,
    "precipType": "snow",
  },

[alexander0042]

Shoot! It was literally just working, but evidently not! Let me check on this

[cloneofghosts]

@alexander0042 It appears that the currently section is pulling in the precipIntensity from the minutely section? I bet the current precipIntensity is 0 which is why the cloudy icon is being shown instead of snow.

Seems like ozone is no longer bring rounded to 2 decimal points anymore as well.

[alexander0042]

Great catch! That's the idea- it doesn't pull directly from the minutely section because I'm working on optimizing the code so I can avoid processing things when they're not needed. In this case it was an issue of me hitting the wrong deploy button, so at least an easy fix.

I think I have it all working now- snow in Ottawa is set to start in about 30 minutes, so I'll check then to verify.

[cloneofghosts]

That query I posted above it did correctly show the snow icon but it might have been GFS data and not HRRR data? Now that HRRR is being used it no longer is no longer showing any snow.

[alexander0042]

Had to go looking for snow somewhere, but this seems to work: 47.43,-74.93,1678732140. You'll notice that it varies slightly from the minutely values, and I should add this to the docs I guess. Minutely is based on the interpolated values, while the currently is just the closest time. Theoretically I suppose interpolated values might be more accurate; however, I like the simplicity of using the raw model result, since it provides a really nice check that everything is working

[cloneofghosts]

Was just about to post that I found a place which is showing the precipitation icon. I used 45.512230,-122.658722 which is showing the rain icon.

I noticed that precipitationIntensity is no longer rounded to two decimal points anymore on the currently block like it was before. The issue about fixing rounding is still open so it might be worth just fixing all of them at once?

[alexander0042]

Big fan of "all at once", and it's set to 2 decimal places now!

[cloneofghosts]

Thanks! I also double checked a location outside of the HRRR domain to make sure that it was being rounded there and it is.

Since everything is fixed I'm going to close this issue now.

[cloneofghosts]

@alexander0042 I haven't confirmed this for myself but it seems like precipIntensities below 0.44 don't show up in the currently block when I've seen precipIntensity above 0 in the minutely block (I know you said its interpolated).

Outside of the HRRR domain all precipItensity values show no matter if it's enough to trigger the icon or not so is it just a bug in the HRRR domain? If so can you set it to be like GFS where all values show no matter ifs above the threshold to show the icon.