maybe you should take a measured amount from the manual raingauge and 
slowly pour it into the fineoffset rain gauge and see if it reads the same 
amount!!!!!!



On Thursday, 2 August 2018 13:16:31 UTC+3, Andrew Milner wrote:
>
> the rainrate is per hour (like kilometres per hour for speed) and is the 
> amount of rain which has fallen in the previous hour, not within the 
> reporting period.  When the rain stops falling the rainrate will decay 
> slowly down to zero.  (in your case over two archive periods and then you 
> will be outside the 1 hr rainrate window)
>
> the accumulated rain is the daily total, and goes up over the day
>
> the table does not give the amount of rain which fell in that reporting 
> period - you have to deduce it from the change in the accumulated total.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, 2 August 2018 13:10:22 UTC+3, Micael Fredriksson wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your answer!
>>
>> But I tought that the precip. rate should add up in precip. accum.? So 
>> every value in rate adds to accum. like 1mm+1,5mm+1,3mm+0,5mm = 4,3mm total 
>> so far and not 2mm total!
>> That had been more like the old plastic rain gauge that level showed near 
>> the 5mm line yesterday. 
>> But I got the function of the accumulated wrong in that case?
>>
>> Den torsdag 2 augusti 2018 kl. 10:30:26 UTC+2 skrev Andrew Milner:
>>>
>>> with your uploads every 30 minutes you will always have one additional 
>>> rainrate showing after the end of any rainfall, and there may be 
>>> circumstances when two periods show a rainrate after the end of rainfall as 
>>> the rainrate decays back down to zero.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 2 August 2018 11:23:35 UTC+3, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I do not see anything wrong.
>>>>
>>>> at 1030 you had no rain
>>>> in the period 1030-1100 1 mm fell so total = 1, and rainfall in 
>>>> previous hour = 1mm/hr
>>>> in the period 1100-1130, 0.5mm fell, so total = 1.5 and rainfall in 
>>>> previous hour = 1.5mm/hr
>>>> in the period 1130 - 1200, 0.5mm fell, so total = 2.0, rainfall in 
>>>> previous hr = 1 so am not sure where the 1.3 came from!!! - ask WU
>>>> in the period 1200 - 1230 , 0 rain fell, so total still = 2.0, rainfall 
>>>> in previous hr = 0.5
>>>> in the period 1230 - 1300, 0 rain fell, so total still = 2, rainfall in 
>>>> previous hr = 0
>>>> and total rainfall will stay at 2 until next rain falls, and reset at 
>>>> midnight
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 2 August 2018 11:14:54 UTC+3, Micael Fredriksson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi! 
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes it shows the same in the table on a web browser.
>>>>> I attached a pic of that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any clue why this happens? And is there a solution?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Den torsdag 2 augusti 2018 kl. 08:53:59 UTC+2 skrev Micael Fredriksson:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My wunderstation table shows rain rate values and accumulated values 
>>>>>> but they don't match up. Even if the rain rate column shows several 
>>>>>> hours 
>>>>>> of rain, the accumulated seems to stop counting after reaching 2mm. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any idea how to fix this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using weewx 3.8.0 on raspberry pi3
>>>>>> With wh1080 weather station.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've seen some posts in forums that you shouldn't mind the rain rate, 
>>>>>> but I would like to see correct accumulated rain in the app.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any advise?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>

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