Ok, I'm still a newb to PWS's so forgive me if I'm asking dumb questions and using vague terminology. I'm not as worried about actually losing my little gold star rating on weather underground but am worried it might indicate an actual problem w/ my station. I've got an Ambient Weather WS-1001 Wifi. Middle of last week, I noticed I'd lost my gold star so I went back thru my data to see if there was anything odd. The only thing I noticed was a 10 minute drop out of my barometric pressure. So...I figured I'd be back in gold star territory soon. To show how silly this rating system is, even though WU says it takes 5 days of quality data, my PWS was rated gold star about 10 minutes after I turned it on and connected it to the internet. A neighboring PWS (same Ambient Weather model) falls off and reappears 2-3 times a week and it's never without it's gold star for more than half a day after it comes back online. The only other time I lost the rating was when I briefly removed my station from the pole to get it a couple of feet higher in the air, which triggered the rain gauge to falsely report a few hundredths of an inch of rain. But a few hours later, my rating came back.
So I'm trying to see if there's something else going on. My siting is not spectacular and I get a lot of erratic, swirling wind thanks to a stand of trees behind my house whenever winds are from the north or west. Could that be the culprit? All my other data seems normal and within the range of what other local stations are reporting...
