On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 5:53:21 PM UTC-4, Alec Bennett wrote:
>
> I'd like to add a chart showing current ocean tides to our weather page, 
> as well as our current position in the tide. 
>
> I can easily get the day's tides from NOAA or the program xTide, but does 
> anyone have any idea how to go about plotting it to a tide chart that looks 
> like this:
>
> http://tides.mobilegeographics.com/locations/2782.html
>
> The tides on that page were all taken from the program xTide. I could 
> conceivably use the graphic on that page, but they've disabled external 
> linking, and I'd like to change the current time indicator anyway (the 
> little + isn't prominent enough).
>
> Would it be possible to use weeWX's plotting engine for this?
>

Not being adept enough in Python, even with suggestions from Matthew in 
this thread, I assembled this hack using GNUplot and a cron job, to produce 
the tide graph seen here:
Graph from Xtide <http://suiattle.net/CapeSmallHarborWeather/wx/>

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