Will look closely at this later, got to go out. Gary
On Sunday, 16 September 2018 09:23:58 UTC+10, Thomas Keffer wrote: > > I think this is Pete's station: > https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMDABING1 > > -tk > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 4:17 PM gjr80 <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> On Sunday, 16 September 2018 06:51:59 UTC+10, Thomas Keffer wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 1:12 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I imported the data using the wee_import utility. I edited the >>>> import.conf file to download all the data from Weather Underground. >>>> >>> >>> Then we'll have to wait for Gary to chime in. But, it should be possible >>> without a big spike like that. >>> >> >> Unlike WU wee_import does not perform any magic incantations on the data >> being imported. WU records daily cumulative rain and rain in the last hour. >> wee_import uses the daily cumulative value to calculate the WeeWX rain >> field (rain per archive period) and ignores the hourly value. WeeWX field >> rainRate is calculated as a derived obs as per the StdCalculate service. >> >> I guess we are all familiar with the issues associated with WU and the >> quality of their data. Anecdotally, I have found that successive queries on >> WU of the type wee_import uses can at times return differing numbers of >> records for a given day (try running wunderfixer 10 times in a row and I >> guarantee it will find at least three different numbers of missing >> records). I can't say that I have seen variations in the data within the >> records WU returns, just in the overall number of records returned. >> >> What is the underlying data like when you display the tabulated >> observation data for the day concerned on WU? Is the discrepancy there? If >> so I guess all you can do is fix your WeeWX archive data for that day as >> Tom said (or import the .wlk files), if WU is showing fine you could try >> re-importing just that day. It's easy enough to do just delete the records >> for that day (a fairly simple SQL update query will do that) then run >> wee_import again but limit it to importing just that day. Of course you >> will need to rebuild your daily summaries again but you can limit that to >> just that one day. >> >> As an aside, last year I did look at extending wee_import to import .wlk >> files but on my first glance it looked like substantially more effort than >> the three sources that wee_import currently handles plus wview (and >> Cumulus I think ?) provide a means to indirectly importing data via a 3rd >> party utility. I haven't taken it any further since. >> >> Gary >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
