Weather Underground is a site that provides excellent local weather information in the form of graphs, tables and csv files. You can use the
data very easily in
SWMM 5 by copying from
Excel to a
time series in SWMM 5.
The data imported from the csv file to Excel and after the text to columns tool is used looks like this in Excel. The data is now ready to be imported into SWMM 5 after the time column is adjusted to fall on even 5 minute intervals. In Excel you can use the formula @ROUND((B2)/"0:05:00",0)*"0:05:00" to round all of the time values to 5 minutes. If you do not do this step then you will have problems in SWMM 5 due to the rainfall interval not being equal to the defined raingage interval.
Open up and make a new time series in SWMM 5 and then
copy and paste the date, rounded time column and rainfall column into the SWMM 5 time series.
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