What could cause such a rain discrepancy!

[cabut]

Hi,

Anyone know what could cause this rain discrepancy? My station is reading 2.38 inches of rain while surrounding stations (within 5 miles) are reading from .34 of an inch to .38 for the same period.
Also, although it has been raining steadily for about 5 hours my graph just shows a spike between 4am and 5am and thats it. I am about two hundred feet higher in elevation than those other stations,
but even my data just can't be correct.

Here's my Wunderground url:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KAZTUBAC1

Tom

[Randall75]

Hi Tom
 Looks like there is a mistake at 04:12 am in your data tabular you should be able to delete it and it should then be correct
Check it out
hope this helps


cheers


 

[WCDev]

Hi Tom,
You'll be able to add a daily rain edit tomorrow to correct the daily rain as far as your stats go but looking at your Wunderground data, it looks like you got a huge amount of rain between 04:12 and 04:17 and the wind picked up considerably for a few minutes around this time (looks like a cold front coming through - there's a rapid temperature drop afterwards). Is it possible the rain bucket was being buffeted by the wind?

[cabut]

Hi Tom,
You'll be able to add a daily rain edit tomorrow to correct the daily rain as far as your stats go but looking at your Wunderground data, it looks like you got a huge amount of rain between 04:12 and 04:17 and the wind picked up considerably for a few minutes around this time (looks like a cold front coming through - there's a rapid temperature drop afterwards). Is it possible the rain bucket was being buffeted by the wind?

It is possible Stu. I didn't know that could happen. I'll use the rain editor to change it tomorrow. Will that change the total on Wunderground?

Best,
Tom

[cabut]

Hi Tom
 Looks like there is a mistake at 04:12 am in your data tabular you should be able to delete it and it should then be correct
Check it out
hope this helps


cheers


 

Thanks Randall!

Best,
Tom

[WCDev]

Hi Tom,
You'll be able to add a daily rain edit tomorrow to correct the daily rain as far as your stats go but looking at your Wunderground data, it looks like you got a huge amount of rain between 04:12 and 04:17 and the wind picked up considerably for a few minutes around this time (looks like a cold front coming through - there's a rapid temperature drop afterwards). Is it possible the rain bucket was being buffeted by the wind?

It is possible Stu. I didn't know that could happen. I'll use the rain editor to change it tomorrow. Will that change the total on Wunderground?

Best,
Tom

It will change your total daily rain as far as the stats in WeatherCat are concerned but it won't affect Wunderground. As Randall points out, you can delete entries there, but you can't edit them (to the best of my knowledge).