Greetings,
I found the NOAA Weather docs very useful for the Weather Station device type but I'm at a loss understanding the Weather Alerts type. I've logged the result of str() on the device and while interesting, it doesn't tell me much about what to expect in the various device state strings.
I'm wondering things like:
What are the possible values for "category", "certainty" and "severity"?
What is the sort order from alert1 to alert5 when multiple alerts exist at the same time? Date/time posted? Date/time effective? Severity? No particular order?
On a hunch that all of this is ultimately defined by NOAA I looked at their docs on the various data feeds they offer but haven't found a match.
Is there documentation somewhere for an Alerts device type like there is for the Station type?
My goal is to estimate the likelihood of a storm-caused electrical grid failure looking forward about 1h to 8h so I can modulate my solar battery system's backup reserve percentage. If a bad storm is likely I was more backup reserve in case the grid does fail. If a grid loss is unlikely I want to lower the backup reserve so I have more battery capacity for Time Of Use optimizations.
Thanks for any pointers.
-Mike