Hey WXForum,
When reporting to CWOP, what do you do when you know your data is going to be bad?
I just noticed my rain gauge stopped reporting any rain altogether. I went outside to investigate and it turns out the darn birds' poo had plugged the gauge. It's been raining since very early AM (now about 4 hours) and I didn't check until now. In this case, when the data gets reported it's going to:
1) Show a massive spike in data (I tried to leave as much rain as-is in the bucket, so once it was unblocked it'd measure what was in there)
2) for any rain that is missing, I'm sure it will be off
What is the right procedure when you know the data going to CWOP is going to be bad? Secondly, if I have a manual rain guage, is there a right process for reporting what that has vs the weather station?
Thanks in advance!