Actually it may just be "pressure" you need to change, but I ended up changing both for some reason, and as I say I've never had a problem.
On Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 8:24:25 PM UTC-7 Jeff A. D. wrote: > I think the problem may be the [StdQC] section in the weewx.conf. > http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#StdQC > > In the example given the minimum barometer reading is 28 which I'm > guessing may be causing your problem. I simply changed mine to 15 which > may be absurdly low but I've never noted a problem with anomalous. > readings. I'm around 7030 feet myself. > > In case you're not sure where the config file is located: > http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#Where_to_find_things > > On Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 7:59:36 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Experienced tech (HW, SW, FW and more), brand new to WeeWX. Have had my >> WeatherFlow Tempest running for a couple of months. >> >> On initial setup, I just discovered that weewx thinks my barometric >> pressure is out of range! I thought that was interesting. >> >> I consider this a bug: >> >> - The adjusted sea level barometer is just fine, and within expected >> range >> - But my actual pressure is considered too low. >> - Not a surprise: we live in Colorado *near* the mountains at a bit >> over 7000 ft -- so our raw pressure is about 3/4 of sea level. People not >> far from me live over 10000 ft ! And there's a weather station on top of >> a >> nearby mountain at over 14000 ft. >> - The current accepted default pressure is 24 inHG. That's 2 in below >> the typical minimum seen in the middle of a tornado. >> - I suggest either dynamically calculating what's acceptable based on >> altitude, or changing this to allow up to 15,000 ft stations. I doubt we >> would see tornados at 15000 ft, but we DO see some at 7000 ft. >> - All things considered, I would suggest a minimum of 17 for 7000 ft, >> 14 for 15000 ft. >> >> -- 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/2346b5ed-d55b-4c13-bf36-174951ac195en%40googlegroups.com.
