Precip accumulation? PirateWeather reporting much lower than reality

I wanted to put expected total daily accumulation on my dashboard. I planned on using this sensor below (see screenshot). Note that it is “0d”, meaning today’s daily. Here’s the full blub from their docs:

precipAccumulation

Only on hourly and daily. The total amount of liquid precipitation expected to fall over an hour or a day expressed in centimetres or inches depending on the requested units. For day 0, this is the precipitation during the remaining hours of the day.

Take note of the last line:

this is the precipitation during the remaining hours of the day.

Well crap! I want the total for the day, including past hours!

Screenshot 2025-01-30 at 1.56.04 PM

So how can I get the full TOTAL amount of precip over a whole day, INCLUDING previous hours of the day? I don’t think summing up each hour’s prediction from this graph would give me what I want because it is based on prediction and not reality. Reality should be used for past hours, no?

Look at the entity in the developer tools.
There might be an attribute for it.

If you can use The Weather Channel integration (weather.com integration) I think it has rain values for last hour, last 6 hours and last 24 hours.

With weather services you really need a local one, because they will have more measuring points in the area and therefore a more precise prediction with precipitation and temperature.

Looks like I was missing sensors! These must be manually selected from the setup wizard.

Screenshot 2025-02-04 at 8.02.23 AM

This is probably all I need, but it’s 60F out with no chance of precipitation so it might be a while before I can answer whether or not this is my solution. I intend to update upon my next snow day.