We can't answer what is extreme for your location. What is your location ? For me anything over 4 is extreme...looking back at 16+ years of data:
# echo "select datetime(dateTime,'unixepoch','localtime'),dateTime,rainRate from archive where rainRate > 4;" | sqlite3 vp2.sdb 2010-06-09 17:00:00|1276128000|5.14 2010-06-09 17:05:00|1276128300|5.76 2011-10-11 17:00:00|1318377600|7.02 2012-04-25 17:45:00|1335401100|6.94 2012-06-07 13:40:00|1339101600|4.57 2013-09-28 16:45:00|1380411900|4.84 2013-09-30 15:20:00|1380579600|5.49 2014-01-11 04:25:00|1389443100|4.68 2014-01-11 04:30:00|1389443400|4.68 2014-05-03 22:45:00|1399182300|4.97 2015-01-18 11:05:00|1421607900|5.2799999946144 2015-06-02 12:40:00|1433274000|7.99999999184 2015-10-10 14:30:00|1444512600|5.4299999944614 2015-10-31 11:30:00|1446316200|4.8399999950632 2016-08-07 22:00:00|1470632400|4.9199999949816 2017-02-03 09:20:00|1486142400|5.0099999948898 2017-04-22 18:35:00|1492911300|4.3599999955528 2018-04-07 08:40:00|1523115600|4.09 2019-09-07 19:45:00|1567910700|5.65 2024-01-09 00:05:00|1704787500|5.76 Which lines up with the summary table: # echo "select datetime(dateTime,'unixepoch','localtime'),dateTime,max from archive_day_rainRate where max > 4;" | sqlite3 vp2.sdb 2010-06-09 00:00:00|1276066800|5.76 2011-10-11 00:00:00|1318316400|7.02 2012-04-25 00:00:00|1335337200|6.94 2012-06-07 00:00:00|1339052400|4.57 2013-09-28 00:00:00|1380351600|4.84 2013-09-30 00:00:00|1380524400|5.49 2014-01-11 00:00:00|1389427200|4.68 2014-05-03 00:00:00|1399100400|4.97 2015-01-18 00:00:00|1421568000|5.2799999946144 2015-06-02 00:00:00|1433228400|7.99999999184 2015-10-10 00:00:00|1444460400|5.4299999944614 2015-10-31 00:00:00|1446274800|4.8399999950632 2016-08-07 00:00:00|1470553200|4.9199999949816 2017-02-03 00:00:00|1486108800|5.0099999948898 2017-04-22 00:00:00|1492844400|4.3599999955528 2018-04-07 00:00:00|1523084400|4.09 2019-09-07 00:00:00|1567839600|5.65 2024-01-09 00:00:00|1704787200|5.76 Interestingly for me, most of the big rainRate(s) do not equate to high rain totals. The squall comes in, dumps a bucket of rain in a heartbeat, then is gone. On Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 4:37:36 PM UTC-7 S Phillips wrote: > 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/445db984-97c1-465a-b8de-f7e502b13848n%40googlegroups.com.
