jim-easterbrook
70.8mm of rain, turned into 7.8mm in pywws
Pywws download 01.04.2021 The weather panel shows 70.8mm of rain, data from pywws shows only 7.8mm.
Which pywws data file? (raw, hourly, ...) What period is the station console showing? (hour, 24 hour, ...)
Data hourly: 2021-05-30 18:57:59,31,25.3,45,15.4,989.7,1023.3,-0.2,1.33333333333,4.1,8.54526356906,0 2021-05-30 19:57:59,32,24.9,41,19.7,989.8,1023.4,0.1,0.791666666667,2,15.3363814587,7.8 2021-05-30 20:57:59,33,24.2,59,16.2,990,1023.6,0.4,1,2.4,11.7830204612,0
Panel hourly 70.8
The water comes from a bottle I used for test.
Rain rates of more than 5 mm per minute are assumed to be corrupt data and are ignored. (There can be problems if the wind gets into your rain gauge and rattles the see-saw from side to side.) You should get a warning message, depending on the verbosity you run pywws at.
If you have exceptionally high rainfall rates where you live then you can edit pywws/process.py and change line 266 accordingly.
Okay, there are many places where it rains a lot in a short time, so you might want to comment this in a text file :)
These cheap weather stations won't accurately record such high rainfall. Most of it will bounce off the funnel.