nlannuzel.sgrain 1.0.0

Tells if, and how hard, it's raining at any location in Singapore

sgrain

Tells if it's currently raining at a given latitude and longitude in Singapore. The data comes from rain radar images at https://www.weather.gov.sg/weather-rain-area-50km/. The image is updated every 5 minutes.

Link to project: https://github.com/nlannuzel/sgrain

Package installation

From Github:

pip install git+https://github.com/nlannuzel/sgrain

... or from Pypi:

pip install nlannuzel.sgrain

Package usage

For example:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from nlannuzel.sgrain.rain import RainAreas
from nlannuzel.sgrain.geo import Location

rain = RainAreas()

# Download the latest radar image from https://www.weather.gov.sg/weather-rain-area-50km/
rain.load_image()

# https://maps.app.goo.gl/9aA7i8chryYwuhUT8
picnic_spot = Location(1.313383, 103.815203)

# Returns a number from 0 to 31
intensity = rain.intensity_at(picnic_spot)

message = f"At location {picnic_spot}, time {rain.rounded_dt}: "
if intensity == 0:
	message += "it's not raining."
elif intensity < 10:
	msg += "it's raining a little bit ({intensity}), bring a umbrella."
else:
	msg += "it's raining a lot ({intensity}), cancel the picnic."
print(message)

One liner: python -m