Daily Rain Editor - Default rain amount?

[senorwx]

I've noticed rain incrementally showing up on my monthly total, in a month when we do not have rain here on the Pacific coast of Mexico. When I entered the Rain Editor to correct the ".01" readings I found that future dates already had that amount registered.

Originally I had thought that over the course of a day or two of early morn condensation, there might be enough to register precipitation of a negligible amount. But now I see that WeatherCat is the villain, giving me measurements into the future! As exciting as that is, I'd prefer to start each day when it occurs. 

Anyone else with this observation? See the screen shot for a future date, taken on January 22.

[elagache]

Dear senorwx and WeatherCat rainfall tabulators,

I've noticed rain incrementally showing up on my monthly total, in a month when we do not have rain here on the Pacific coast of Mexico. When I entered the Rain Editor to correct the ".01" readings I found that future dates already had that amount registered.

Originally I had thought that over the course of a day or two of early morn condensation, there might be enough to register precipitation of a negligible amount. But now I see that WeatherCat is the villain, giving me measurements into the future! As exciting as that is, I'd prefer to start each day when it occurs. 

Anyone else with this observation? See the screen shot for a future date, taken on January 22.

I'm not sure exactly what you are seeing, but when I bring up the daily rain editor right now it gives as a default the actual rainfall that has fallen today.  It uses this value as the default for any date in the future as well.

I suppose you could fault WeatherCat for allowing you hypothetically editing days in the future, but anyone doing this would be silly, so I don't see any reason to change the behavior of the daily rain editor.  In normal operation, WeatherCat would be only asked to change a value that is in the past.  In those cases, the default value is the rain that WeatherCat actually recorded for that day - what other default could it use?

I suppose I'm not understanding what your problem is.  Do you have WeatherCat set to send an email when it detects precipitation?   You can set this in the Alerts2 tab of the WeatherCat preferences.  That way if there is sort rain bucket tip event, you'll get an email to confirm it really happened.

I do get bucket-tip events that seem unrelated to rain.  Often I will get a bucket tip around the middle of the day when rain has fallen only early in the morning.  I've wondered if birds landing on the rain gauge or perhaps thermal expansion is enough to get the bucket to tip when it is almost full of water.  Another possibility is that an earthquake was sufficient to cause a bucket tip event.

In any case, if you have a single day with a single bucket tip event.  You should be able to clear that one event and your weekly, monthly and yearly totals should no longer include that phantom bucket tip event.

I hope that's a little help.  Please do elaborate if I haven't addressed your concern.

Cheers, Edouard

[WCDev]

Fixed in 2.3.0, you can no longer select dates in the future

[senorwx]

Muchas Gracias Amigos!

I had never seen the behavior I described in my post. I can't remember a time when a future rain amount either showed or was editable.

Stuart's note reveals the old (common sense) behavior has been restored.

Thanks,

Curt