Shouldn't Precipitation % DAILY approximate HOURLY?

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In Weather Watcher Live 6.0.0.61 (Beta), shouldn’t the Precipitation % that appears under the DAILY tab for the day and Night approximately agree with the average Precipitation % under the HOURLY tab for the range of hours for day and Night?

An example might serve better; I’ve tried several locations in several states and get the same wide-ranging difference between DAILY and HOURLY Precipitation %:

Under the DAILY forecast I see “Precipitation: 0%”

Under the HOURLY forecasts between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. (which I am assuming approximate the hours of the DAILY forecast) I see a range for these hours between “Precipitation: 25%” and “Precipitation: 29%”.

So why doesn’t the DAILY forecast say something like “Precipitation: 27%”?

Is this a bug or is the program talking about 2 different kinds of precipitation under the same name Precipitation?

Thanks in advance for answering these questions.

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Currently, I’m pulling the daily precipitation from the daily text. If that text includes “Chance of rain 40 percent”, then the daily precipitation will display 40%. As you noted, that percentage does not always match up with the hourly percentage.

WeatherBug is currently working to add a daily percentage to their data feed – so I don’t have to pull it from the daily text and/or try calculating it using the hourly data.