Hi All
Because I've always been fascinated by the weather, I finally indulged myself and bought my first weather station a few weeks ago and have been doing a lot of reading on the different aspects of the weather, how things fit together, forecasting etc.
From what I've read and what I've been observing with my station, I'm seeing something that doesn't make sense and I was hoping you folks could help me understand it a bit more. Everything I've read says that rain is usually preceded by a low-pressure system. However, what I see in the attached screenshot from my station, there seem to be a couple oddities in the last three weeks that are making me scratch my head.
Box 1 is the first one that doesn't seem to match. The pressure went up and then it rained, the rain stopped/paused, the pressure dropped and it continued to rain. Box 2 is the opposite, as expected, the pressure dropped first then it rained, but the pressure rose and it rained again. Box 3 matches everything I've read, the pressure dropped and it rained.
The pressure rising before it rained in box 1 & 2 seem to contradict everything I've read. Since I've only really gotten through the basics, is there something that I'm missing that would explain this? It doesn't make sense and I'm really puzzled by this.
Thanks.
Ray
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