Apparently I spoke too soon (see my earlier post number 1045). The Goldstar concept still needs work.
The goldstar status was removed from one of my two personal weather stations. My stations are both VP2s, about 20 feet apart on the same fence, with essentially identical readings and even share the same anemometer. WU removed the Goldstar status from my newer station (about 6 months old) but not the station that has been there for years.
Update, November 21, 2018–it is worse. When looking at my PWS dashboard page (KILWHEAT36) there is no data at all, let alone a Goldstar. What you see is a “No Data Available" message. Apparently, this is a known WU issue for certain PWSs. I have heard the expression two steps foward three steps backward, but this is like two steps forward and ten steps backwards!
Update, December 25, 2018-I recently added a third station to upload to WU, KILWHEAT39. Within hours, that station received a Goldstar but my second station (KILWHEAT36) lost its recently awarded GoldStar. Go figure. To receive a Goldstar, doesn’t WU state the station has to have 5 consecutive days of reporting?