I find the storm event definition used by Davis somewhat bizarre. Two bucket tips to start the event then no rain for 24 hours to end it. Two bucket tips is just 0.4mm of rain, hardly a storm, and after that it’s a storm for 24 hours?
Case in point. We had a brief thunderstorm last night at about 11pm. It only lasted about 10 minutes and it dumped about 4mm of rain on us. This morning we’re in the 10th hour of a ‘storm’ even though it’s not rained for over 10 hours.
Why does Davis set such a strange definition of ‘storm’ and can this be changed? I’m expecting the answer to the second question to be ‘no’ but if you don’t ask you don’t know for sure!
I’ve had a few severe downpours this week but I never looked to see if it said “storm”.
Is your storm notifaction on the Davis console, or in WeatherDisplay, or both?
I’ll make a mental note to look at my system next time I have significant rain.
I see it in the WeatherLink app but it might be displayed elsewhere. My last storm lasted 2 days and 2 hours. I’m surprised the storm didn’t cause major flooding with the 6.8mm of rain that fell during those 50 hours!
I see it more as a “rain event” than a storm.
Even as a rain event it doesn’t seem very useful.
I assume it was added because it would be useful to someone but I can’t imagine how it could be useful to anybody.