Rain 2026
When did it rain during the year? And how much? I was curious how the situation is over here. As luck would have it, I already had the data and a good starting point with Kirby.
For about four years now, I've been collecting weather data, [[/blog/2022/regen|originally for this post]]. At regular intervals, I read data from a local weather station via a weather API and store the data. This value is used in the linked post, and was previously used for my footer animation, and will soon be used elsewhere as well.
Since the weather is omnipresent again, especially the topic of rain and drought, I wondered how much it actually rains throughout the year. So I grabbed my data, created an endpoint using a Kirby route, and can now display the data in almost any format.
I opted for a GitHub-like graph. Each day is represented by a box, and the darker the blue, the more rain:
Quite nice, I think. Not that I could draw any profound conclusions from this, but I find it interesting to visualize such data and make it a bit more tangible.
It also demonstrated once again how quickly such things can be implemented with Kirby. I had already implemented my weather data collection as a plugin, which I only needed to extend with a route to access this data for this post.
I've said to myself, I will experiment more again. So, be prepared! I might come up with such tools, scripts, and ideas occasionally. If it seems like a good fit, I may also create a tutorial.
