It's not a bug but a set of defaults provided under [StdQC] in weewx.conf for the user to tailor to their needs. Once you set them to suit your needs they will remain that way across WeeWX upgrades etc until you change them.
Gary On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 12:59:36 UTC+10 [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/72e4d9a1-8449-4a7c-9ff4-5b5170011827n%40googlegroups.com.
