Yeah, this was my thinking too, but MADIS support assured me (albeit in a very curt email) that this is not the case. To be honest, I can't say I believe what they've told me.
Fingers crossed someone on this forum will know whats going on! On Friday, 6 November 2020 at 02:46:12 UTC [email protected] wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/becf7aeb-810c-410d-8dde-cb8fb3a9a670n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/becf7aeb-810c-410d-8dde-cb8fb3a9a670n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> -- >> 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 on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d4da287b-46cb-4c82-aac8-ca9f845b2192n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d4da287b-46cb-4c82-aac8-ca9f845b2192n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- > 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 on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/87d1f402-f0d0-4096-9b99-58b1680b13een%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/87d1f402-f0d0-4096-9b99-58b1680b13een%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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