Topic: Rain Gauge Precipitation/Under-Catch and Wind Speed

[ddarrs]

 :According to, CWOP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dshelms/CWOP_Guide.pdf , the efficiency of a rain catch bucket can be severely compromised by high winds. If I am looking at this correctly you can miss as much as 80%-90% of actual rain fall in 20mph plus winds.

Are we getting accurate readings in rain/high wind conditions or does the software in the Davis
console compensate for this??  According to the article in the above link they show wind shields to correct this problem.

Anyone thought of this or discussed before?   

[ocala]

The software does not compensate for high winds.
The only thing I can think of is placing it somewhere where it's protected by the winds but out in the open enough to catch the rain. Usually your house or the trees will knock down the ground level winds enough that the rain will be vertical most of the time. Even in windy conditions the rain isn't truly horizontal. Usually those conditions don't last too long. A downburst or straight line high winds average about 30 seconds to a minute at their peak.
You are going to lose some of the rain but ultimately it depends on your siting.