I have found that if the sensor is not mounted on a GOOD STABLE mount, wind will cause erroneous rain amounts. I also have a sensor near a RR track. When trains go by I see what looks like a small amount of precip for the duration of the train passage. Had to move it a wee bit farther away from the RR track. It was about 100 ft away, moved it another 50 ft and that got rid of most of it, only when a really loaded car passes do you see any activity.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM vince <[email protected]> wrote: > No. > > If you have WF Nearcast rain enabled in their app then their servers show > what they think you received based on nearby stations. The weewx driver > reports what your sensor actually measured. If you turn NC off in the WF > app they should hopefully match. > > > On Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 10:09:18 AM UTC-7 Daniel Studer wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Hoping someone has either seen this before, or can point me in the right >> direction. >> >> Situation... >> >> Weatherflow Tempest, (running for 3 years, 10 months) >> >> WeeWX version 5.1.0, Skin Seasons 5.1.0 >> >> with weatherflowUDP on Raspberry Pi 5, Bookworm OS, installed this month. >> >> Heavy rain on 7/28/2025 >> >> My question… >> >> Does the default setup of Weewx and the UDP data collector need some >> specific tweak in order to report an appropriate rainfall amount? >> >> >> Tempest reports 1.42" rain >> >> Weewx reports 4.52" rain >> >> >> Thoughts and appropriate feedback appreciated. >> >> >> Tempest >> [image: Screenshot from 2025-07-29 12-24-48.png] >> Tempest >> [image: Screenshot from 2025-07-29 12-23-11.png] >> (In looking at the above 2 reports, the "duration-mins" seems odd. I'll >> have to look into that too!) >> >> Weewx with UDP collector. >> >> [image: Screenshot from 2025-07-29 12-23-42.png] >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/819f4c8f-05a4-426b-a398-35a86fb16516n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/819f4c8f-05a4-426b-a398-35a86fb16516n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Chuck -- KP4DJT AREDN Meshphone # 405.2005 and 405.2013 HamHotline # 11259 DMR ID 3140958 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAN9xdP-PfkmEYJXQOa-RRRji81Xo8VZih9s24%3DpGf2Ow_sjjCA%40mail.gmail.com.
