On Saturday, 10 December 2016 18:59:27 UTC-8, mwall wrote:
>
> On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 9:27:02 PM UTC-5, Louis De Lange wrote:
>>
>> It was absolutely a matter of formatting.  With the right formatting I 
>> can round to whole numbers of rain or snow.
>>
>> I would prefer to display rain in mm and snow in cm, but there is only 
>> one group unit for precipitation.
>>
>
> dot code to the rescue!  as gary pointed out, you can use the dot code to 
> do cm for snow and mm for rain.
>
> and you can also use the dot code to make the precision for mm different 
> than the precision for cm.
>
> for example, one decimal place for cm, no decimal places for mm:
>
> $period.qpf.cm.nolabel('%.1f', ' ')
>
> $period.qsf.mm.nolabel('%.0f', ' ')
>
> qpf is for rain, qsf is for snow (names are based on NWS conventions).
>
> hope that helps!
>
> m 
>

Thanks guys, this is exactly the right solution.

 

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