Occasional rainfall anomalies
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2024 2:38 pm
I am using a wireless Davis Vantage Pro II weather station with the Meteobridge PRO2:
1. A few months ago, I saw some odd values, but at the time there was another support question raised on this Meteobridge Forum about similar issues, which was resolved by a software update, so I don't know if this is the same problem (or whether it is a Davis sensor/signal issue). This week on 23 Nov 2024, I noticed a spurious rainfall data values in the information I am capturing via the values produced by [rain0total-daysum.1:--]
In the data, this summative value has decreased (from 11.4 to 11.0mm) and then increased again in values collected at 5 min intervals:
2. There have also been some mysterious extra rainfall values, such as this +25.6mm (1 inch?) in 5 minutes at 00:37 hrs in the early morning of 27 Nov 2024 when there was no rainfall:
This was coincident with an extra high wind gust value, which also seemed to be a spurious value. Other data such as wind direction, temperature and humidity seemed normal:
I also show the rainfall signal chart:
Question: Is there any way for me to investigate these further? Or any suggestions what else to try? I did not have access to the Davis Console display at the time of these events, so can't confirm if the Meteobridge was different to the Davis console, but will try to compare if this occurs again.
This is not urgent at all. Love to all at Meteobridge!
1. A few months ago, I saw some odd values, but at the time there was another support question raised on this Meteobridge Forum about similar issues, which was resolved by a software update, so I don't know if this is the same problem (or whether it is a Davis sensor/signal issue). This week on 23 Nov 2024, I noticed a spurious rainfall data values in the information I am capturing via the values produced by [rain0total-daysum.1:--]
In the data, this summative value has decreased (from 11.4 to 11.0mm) and then increased again in values collected at 5 min intervals:
2. There have also been some mysterious extra rainfall values, such as this +25.6mm (1 inch?) in 5 minutes at 00:37 hrs in the early morning of 27 Nov 2024 when there was no rainfall:
This was coincident with an extra high wind gust value, which also seemed to be a spurious value. Other data such as wind direction, temperature and humidity seemed normal:
I also show the rainfall signal chart:
Question: Is there any way for me to investigate these further? Or any suggestions what else to try? I did not have access to the Davis Console display at the time of these events, so can't confirm if the Meteobridge was different to the Davis console, but will try to compare if this occurs again.
This is not urgent at all. Love to all at Meteobridge!