cameronoliver's comments

"On a boat? With a goat?" is a quote from Green Eggs and Ham, an early-reader children's book by Dr Seuss, published in 1960.

I've changed the map so that it plots annual depth by default now.

Thanks—I've changed the map so that it plots annual depth by default now. Yes I agree the popup is "unnecessary", but I wanted to make it easy for the site to be used for extreme stats without having to wade through seasonal stats first.

Thanks for letting me know—I've fixed that bug now.

You're probably right, at least for a decent chunk of the world.

Regional merging would be valuable, but compiling a comprehensive set of high-resolution (sub-daily) rainfall data might be quite hard.

Hosting costs are reasonably low. What do you have in mind with respect to white labelling? (what use cases were you thinking?)

Thanks. I'll have a think about how I can make those comparison plots easier to find.

Yep, inundation mapping would certainly be useful to a much wider number of people. I'll have to look into the existing competition and work out whether there's space in the market for another player.

Yes, I've been focused on sales only for a number of months.

XRain is mostly designed to help in situations where data (free or otherwise) isn't available from anywhere else.

However I've come to realise that most places have some sort of data that they use and are familiar with, even if that data isn't very good. As a result people/companies haven't been very willing to part with their cash.

Oh! I've had to be careful to avoid saying it's available "anywhere", because there are certainly people like you who live above 60°N or below 60°S.

Thanks! Chloropeths of extreme depths in the map page is a good idea actually.

I used IMERG because it's historical satellite measurements, not re-analysis using a model.

The focus was on creating extreme precipitation stats at a global scale, something that wasn't previously available. Many potential customers wouldn't even be aware of GloH20, ERA5, etc.