'.__LINE__.' '.print_r($arr,true);
        unset ($hilows, $hl);
        $data   = array ();
        $data['hist']   = array ( 
                'rainMnth' => 0,
                'rainToday'=> $arr['precipTotal'],
                'tempHigh' => $arr['tempHigh'],         'TtempHigh' => $epoch, 
                'tempLow'  => $arr['tempLow'],          'TtempLow'  => $epoch, 
                'chilHigh' => $arr['windchillHigh'],    'TchilHigh' => $epoch, 
                'chilLow'  => $arr['windchillLow'],     'TchilLow'  => $epoch, 
                'heatHigh' => $arr['heatindexHigh'],    'TheatHigh' => $epoch, 
                'heatLow'  => $arr['heatindexLow'],     'TheatLow'  => $epoch,
                'dewpHigh' => $arr['dewptHigh'],        'TdewpHigh' => $epoch, 
                'dewpLow'  => $arr['dewptLow'],         'TdewpLow'  => $epoch,

                'windHigh' => $arr['windspeedHigh'],    'TwindHigh' => $epoch, 
                'windLow'  => $arr['windspeedLow'],     'TwindLow'  => $epoch,
                'gustHigh' => $arr['windgustHigh'],     'TgustHigh' => $epoch, 
                'gustLow'  => $arr['windgustLow'],      'TgustLow'  => $epoch,
                'presHigh' => $arr['pressureMax'],      'TpresHigh' => $epoch, 
                'presLow'  => $arr['pressureMin'],      'TpresLow'  => $epoch, 
                'humiHigh' => $arr['humidityHigh'],     'ThumiHigh' => $epoch, 
                'humiLow'  => $arr['humidityLow'],      'ThumiLow'  => $epoch, 
                'solrHigh' => $arr['solarRadiationHigh'],'TsolrHigh'=> $epoch,
                'uvuvHigh' => $arr['uvHigh'],           'TuvuvHigh' => $epoch ) ;
        $data['hist']['md'] = date('Ymd', $epoch);
        $data['hist']['ym'] = date('Ym', $epoch); 
        $data['last']   = false;
        }
# ----------------------------------------------
#                        Download a file from WU
# ----------------------------------------------        
function curl_data ($url)
     {  global $stck_lst, $API, $rawData;
        $fake_url       = str_replace ($API, '_API_SETTING_',$url);     // hide API-key 
        $timeout        = 5;                                    // 5 seconds max wait for answer WU
        $start_time     =  microtime(true);
        $ch             = curl_init();                          // initialize a cURL session
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);                   // connect to provided URL
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);           // verify peer off,removes a lot of errors with older hosts
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120424 Firefox/12.0 PaleMoon/12.0'); #### 2020-09-30
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);   // connection timeout
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);          // data timeout
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);        // return the data transfer
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, false);               // do the download request without getting the body
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);               // include header information
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);         // follow Location: redirect allowed
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 1);                 //   but only one time
        $rawData= curl_exec ($ch);
        $info	= curl_getinfo($ch);
        $error  = curl_error($ch); # echo print_r($rawData,true).print_r($error,true).print_r($info,true); exit;
        curl_close ($ch);
        $now    = microtime(true);
        $passed = $now - $start_time;
        if ($passed < 0.0001) {$string1 = '< 0.0001';} else {$string1 = round($passed,4);}
        $CHECK_HTTP_CODES = array ('204','404', '429','502', '500');
        if (in_array ($info['http_code'],$CHECK_HTTP_CODES) ) 
             {  $stck_lst .= basename(__FILE__).' ('.__LINE__.') time spent: '.$string1.' - PROBLEM => http_code: '.$info['http_code'].', no valid data for '.$fake_url.PHP_EOL;
                return false;}
        if ($error <> '')
             {  $stck_lst .= basename(__FILE__).' ('.__LINE__.') time spent: '.$string1.' -  invalid CURL '.$error.' '.$fake_url.PHP_EOL; 
                return false;}        
        else {  $stck_lst .= basename(__FILE__).' ('.__LINE__.') time spent: '.$string1.' -  CURL OK for '.$fake_url.PHP_EOL; }  #echo __LINE__.' '.$stck_lst.print_r($info,true).print_r($error,true); die;
        return true;
        }