Rain rate data: time-averaged? **solved**

[rswhitmarsh]

We use meteobridge to upload weather data to Weather Underground.

Our meteobridge seems to send a time-averaged rain rate instead of the actual rain rate. So even though the rain rate may have spiked at 3+ in/hr for 10 minutes, Weather Underground receives a much lower value like 0.4 in/hr.

I have checked with WU and they stated that they simply plot what meteobridge sends to them, so I am posting here to ask for help.

Is there some way to change, alter, or control the resolution of rain rate data that gets uploaded to the various weather networks.

By the way, I know that the actual rain rate can be shared immediately via push services (e.g., Twitter, etc.); but this time-averaging of data seems to have something to do with the resolution of rain rate data being shared via "weather networks"

My note with images to WU:

""Wondering why the rainfall rate data from our station appears less than the actual intenty, by which I mean that on WunderMap it seems to plot a long-term moving average of the data rather than the actual bursts of heavy rainfall which are apparent from a neighboring station. I can pull the actual rainfall intensities from the Meteobridge interface that we use, so I can't understand why that data doesn't get posted on the WunderMap plot. Can you clarify why this is happening? I've included two screenshots for reference: one from the site at issue KCASANMA40, and another from neighboring station KCASANMA84. Thanks.""

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pR8a ... sp=sharing

[admin]

When you look at the upload protocol specification for WU, you will
see that WU is not asking for a "rain rate" but for the amount of rain
that has been falling during last hour (parameter "rainin").

Link: http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/ ... d_Protocol

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rainin - [rain inches over the past hour)] -- the accumulated rainfall in the past 60 min
dailyrainin - [rain inches so far today in local time]

[rswhitmarsh]

Thanks... I didn't know that protocol was publicly available. Strange that they chose that parameter to illustrate "Precip. Rate" on their graph, as the plot of actual rain rate is much more informative. Thanks, again.