Yes, there is no analysis.  If I had to make up a reason, it could be that our 
NWS doesn’t do this for locations outside the US?  North America?  But I have 
no idea.  You may get a good answer on this forum, but I would definitely ask 
on the forum I referred you to.

> On Nov 5, 2020, at 6:35 PM, Lewis McCallum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Not exactly. If you compare the quality checks on my station (or any in the 
> UK) with one in the US you'll see that my station is actually missing the 
> "stage 3" analysis whereby the analysis variable values (and hence errors) 
> are calculated. Notice my errors and standard deviations are all either zero 
> or blank.
> 
> I picked a random US station for example:
> 
> https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/search?site=E4534;Get%20information=Get%20information;days=3#Data
> 
> 
>> On Friday, 6 November 2020 at 02:30:41 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>> I had a look at:
>> 
>> https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/search?site=F8519;Get%20information=Get%20information;days=3#Data
>> 
>> And I see the following.  Is this the issue you are seeing?  How long have 
>> you waited?
>> 
>> Not enough data has been received to perform a day / night analysis to check 
>> for various types of shielding problems. Please wait a few days, and then 
>> try again.
>> 
>>>> On Nov 5, 2020, at 6:18 PM, Lewis McCallum <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> Hi John,
>> 
>>> 
>>> I'll give that forum a go, thanks for that.
>>> 
>>> And yeah, I have also seen a lot of people on various forums complaining 
>>> about the quality of the analysis. It just surprised me that no station in 
>>> the UK (or anywhere in the world I checked outside of North America 
>>> actually) seems to have it up and running, so I've been obsessively trying 
>>> to get to the bottom of it.
>>> 
>>> My CWOP station is FW8519 - (and meikleobney.net if you're interested :) )
>>> 
>>> Lewis
>>> 
>>>> On Friday, 6 November 2020 at 02:08:43 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>>>> A good place to ask is here:
>>>> https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=15.0
>>>> 
>>>> You may be disappointed when you do get his working as the reports have 
>>>> been wacky for some time (although, very recently, they seem to be better).
>>>> 
>>>> You don’t mention your station.  Would you share it?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> John
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 5, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Lewis McCallum <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So this isn't exactly a weewx question, but I'm just looking for 
>>>>> knowledge from people who understand a bit about uploading to CWOP/MADIS. 
>>>>> MADIS support has been super dismissive of my questions (short 
>>>>> single-sentence replies to my emails) so I'm just looking for some info. 
>>>>> I know there's a lot of pretty knowledgeable people on here who use the 
>>>>> services I'm asking about, so I thought I'd ask here.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In particular, I'm interested in the MADIS quality checks that are run. 
>>>>> If you upload to CWOP you eventually get a site on gladstonefamily.net 
>>>>> where you can track the quality checks of your data and then potentially 
>>>>> improve your data quality over time. However, I was disappointed to see 
>>>>> my station (UK) wasn't showing full analysis. I don't have an average 
>>>>> error/standard deviation for any variable. I then did some exploring and 
>>>>> discovered that I could find no UK station which does show this info. All 
>>>>> US stations I checked, however, gave full analysis. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I emailed to ask and got a blunt single sentence response from MADIS 
>>>>> saying "US and UK treated the same". I did some exploring of the actual 
>>>>> raw MADIS QC data and discovered that for all UK stations I checked (once 
>>>>> I'd translated the annoying bitmasks), none of them had had a "Stage 3" 
>>>>> check carried out, while all US stations I checked did have this check 
>>>>> (where, to my knowledge, stage 3 is the stage which compares station data 
>>>>> to the network of other stations and produces the error in your data for 
>>>>> each observation). I've pointed this out to MADIS support but believe I 
>>>>> am now being ignored for pestering them so much.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Essentially I've come here to ask if anyone has a good understanding of 
>>>>> the MADIS quality check system, and can explain to me why only North 
>>>>> American stations are getting Stage 3 checks carried out. There must be a 
>>>>> valid reason for this, but it's frustrating to just be told by MADIS that 
>>>>> "there is no difference" when there clearly is. I was looking forward to 
>>>>> improving my data quality and it looks like I just sort of can't because 
>>>>> MADIS isn't doing the checks that they seem to be claiming to carry out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can anyone shed some light?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lewis
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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