Topic: Barometer Changes

[92merc]

I'm sure this is an old story.  But here it goes anyway.  I noticed on my CWOP data page, my barometer has been creeping out of my usual .3 millibar discrepancy.  I'm still off about 1 - 1.5 millibar off of the airport, the nearest "official" station I can trust.  They are 270 feet lower and probably 8 miles away.

What I am suspecting is a new station, that is only a mile or so away from me, is throwing my quality control off.  He's about 60 feet lower, but showing just shy of 5 millibars off of mine.  He's a new station that recently cropped up.  He has a Davis station, so I would have to guess he doesn't have something configured right to be that far off of me.

Two years ago, I replaced a VP1 with my VP2 and my barometer didn't change hardly at all.  So I'm fairly certain I have my end configured right.  And I'm using VPLive to send my data.  So I shouldn't be having VWS related issues.

I'm sure there isn't much I can do.  But it still sucks.  I'm betting my MADIS check will fail soon, and it isn't anything I can do about it.

http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/search?site=C2059&Get+information=Get+information

DW9195 is the "new" station.  He's still also running an old ham related weather station.  That station was also way off.  Sometime about a year ago, his barometer wasn't being reported any more.  Not sure why.  But that helped my quality checks also.

[SlowModem]

DW9195 is the "new" station.  He's still also running an old ham related weather station.  That station was also way off.  Sometime about a year ago, his barometer wasn't being reported any more.  Not sure why.  But that helped my quality checks also.

At the end of his qa summary page it says:

Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Karl

Perhaps you could shoot him an email and get him to straighten up?

[92merc]

I just might do that.   What I don't understand is when you go to his weather quality check, his barometer shows OK also.  Technically even better than mine.  I just don't get that.

[SlowModem]

I just might do that.   What I don't understand is when you go to his weather quality check, his barometer shows OK also.  Technically even better than mine.  I just don't get that.

He has a lot of missing data.  Perhaps that contributes to his rating.

Over the last 28 days, no data was seen on the following dates: 2012-02-01 to 2012-02-17, 2012-02-21 to 2012-02-26.

[Dr Obbins]

My barometer comparison just keeps getting worse and worse while I am with in 0.08 of the local airport. I mean really - look at the analysis compared to my actual reading. It is all over the place by the minute.