Sorry for the delay in response to the suggestions, been quite busy as of late. I performed the drop daily and rebuild daily as recommended, but unfortunately that did not fix it. I gathered the NOAA reports from the WeeWX to get an idea as to where the bad data might reside. I also gathered the actual readings which were observed from the nearest official NOAA station and use that data to figure out which is true or not.
One of the issues that I am unable to grab from NOAA is the rain rate as it does not appear to be collected. The "highest daily rain rate" from my WeeWX installation/DB is "84.62 in/hr" which is obviously incorrect. I ran the following SQL query to see how many lines were over 10 (which I assume is 10 in/hr) which resulted in 29 lines of which 15 of those lines were between 10 and 29. The rest were 40 or over so I assume that those are all bad values. My question regarding that is what is an average rain rate that is observed and what is "extreme"? On Monday, October 27, 2025 at 1:03:19 PM UTC-5 vince wrote: > Suggest you look at each yearly report to see which month(s) or year(s) > you think you have issues to clean up. We can't guess what normal vs. > abnormal might be for your site, as everybody has different measures of > 'normal' for rain. > > Poke around your NOAA directory if you're comfortable with the command > line, but note that Belchertown has its own NOAA tree under the hood of the > html files it generates. If you are running other skins like the default > Seasons or Standard skins, they would go into a different NOAA directory > probably. > > Or just get there through the web gui. Look year by year. Note which > date ranges look like they're wrong. We can give you more specific guidance > when we know what dates we might need to fiddle with. > > On Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 8:20:57 PM UTC-7 S Phillips wrote: > >> Hello all, I am needing some advice on how to fix an issue that I have >> been having since 2016 related to my rain records. Seems that lack of >> physical maintenance related to leaves and the rain collector has caused >> this problem with erroneous data being captured by my Vantage Pro and >> WeeWX. Combine that with lazyness and you get where I am now almost a >> decade later. >> >> On the records page for the Belchertown skin, I have bad data for the >> following areas: "Highest Daily Rainfall", "Highest Daily Rain Rate", >> "Month with Highest Total Rainfall" and "Total Rainfall for". >> >> I admit that I caused this issue in the past as I attempted to clean the >> data from the database. I later have learned that the method that I >> previously used was incorrect. I would like to keep my good historical data >> but I would like to get my values back to reading correctly. Included is a >> screenshot of my records page which shows the culprit being in 2016 (for >> now). Any assistance in correcting my messup would be much appreciated. >> >> (PS: My Pi that ran my previous WeeWX install died in Dec 2024 and due to >> health issues, I just got around to loading it on a VM so I have no new >> data until mid-October 2025). >> [image: Records.png] >> > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f0f5c4ca-a312-4465-8012-b09f3d157b49n%40googlegroups.com.
