WD Says it's raining - But no one else seems to agree?

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It is currently raining at a rate of: 0.100 in/hr (%currentrainrate%)
BUT…
Current rain episode duration 0 minutes
Max rain rate today: 0.000 inches (16:47 PM)
Maximum rain per minute in the last 1 hour: 0.000 in.
The last rain tip today was recorded at: -

It rained quite a bit yesterday, and right now the temp and dew point are so close together it appears exact so there is a lot of moisture in the air but it is not raining…not even a drizzle…

My Davis Station monitor is reading Daily Rain 0.00 and Rain Rate 0.00

Why would WD read o.002 in./min (0.145 in./hr) ?

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Here’s a txt file showing what it has been inputting for Rain_Rate and Daily_Rainfall so far today…

View: http://www.picolio.com/weather/RainSpurts.txt

Note daily rainfall is always zero…but the Rain Rate seems to show a reading throughout the morning off and on…

Condensation or Bug or?

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I have same problem!

Mayby that is bug…
That problem begining after v.10.14a or something.

Eki

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We have a lot of fog and condensation will do it. I have also noted that a 90 pound dog jumping on the deck will make it rain too :lol:

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Sun is up etc now…and it’s still humid as all could be but I’ve been reading at least a 0.145 Rain_Rate consistently since my last post…

What’s really bugging me is that my station monitor has never left 0.00 in/hr under rain rate…so why would WD disagree? I thought WD got it’s info directly from what the Davis VP was reporting?

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If I get a console - wd conflict I’ll fire up the weatherlink software and dump the archive and see what actual values are in there.

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WeatherLink 5.5 is reporting 0.00 Rain Rate…while WD is reporting 0.145…

Full image of WL report is at:
http://www.PicOlio.com/weather/WLRainRate.jpg

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I have also noted that a 90 pound dog jumping on the deck will make it rain too :lol:
P.S. one is only 65lbs and the other is still a puppy at 55lbs...so he wont reach his full weight of a 100lbs for another few months. Doubt that's causing it :twisted: Then again...I guess if they both jumped at the same time........ :wink:
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Yep looks like a setting issue (can’t imagine what) or a bug then.

I have a rain gauge on the end of a cantilever deck so it’s pretty bouncy.

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As an update on this WD Oddity…

It finally did rain and WD appeared to have reported the rain fine.

Then the rain stopped.

WD started reporting a 0.06 rain rate as opposed to 0.1 which was an improvement lol.

Then a few hours later it switched to the correct reporting of 0.0

So I dunno what’s up with it…but that’s what it did… 8)

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hi
wd calculates its own rainfall rate…
but it looks like it got stuck!
so i will put some checks in place to make sure it doesnt get stuck…
a few people have reported this

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wd calculates its own rainfall rate....

Is there any way for me to set it up to take the rain rate directly from the Davis reports? The Davis seems to report more accuratly “by the second”…

If not… how exactly does WD determine the rate?

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each second WD recalculates the current rain rate…as mm/minute…
so once the rain stops, the rain rate start top go down…once it has been longer time this the last rain tip was…i.e each rain tip, the rate changes…it might go up…

but it looks like what might have happened is it stopped recalculating it

there is a rain rate in the data from the VP…i will see about using that instead as an option

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there is a rain rate in the data from the VP...i will see about using that instead as an option
Kewl!

I’m trying to prove to a friend…who is in the market for a weather station that WD is the right software to go with because the support/active development is on the ball… You’re making that much easier for me Brian :wink:

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i just need to wait for it to rain again here…due later today

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Not long to wait for that here at the moment Brian lol

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we had a good shower of rain, and I have found the correct data position in the data from the VP, but I had the units wrong
also, i compared WD’s mm/hr with the VP console,and they agreed with each well…and the rates both dropped down the same too,.,
i also made a few tweaks in the code to stop the wd rain rate not getting to zero problem, hopefully, in 10.15q beta
tomorrow wit more showers coming, i will do more work on the rain rate from the vp//./

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hi
10.15s beta
you can tick to use vp rain rate, in the weather station setuo, vp setup area
should work ok :slight_smile:

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Thanks!

Upgraded to v.T now… Bonnie should give us some rain to test with and Charley should decide whether or not we were even meant to have a station :slight_smile:

Thanks again!!!

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Ok Davis VP Station is reporting between 3 and 6 in/hr and that’s what was showing in WD screen but what was being uploaded to the MySQL DB and what was showing on the web page was 0.00 in/hr rain_rate…

So something is still not quite working right for recording the rain_rate directly from Davis VP