Topic: Storm...

[pricey]

Hi all.
What does STORM mean in real time data page rain totals?
Cheers

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[davidmc36]

It refers to a sustained period of rain recently.....like the last 24 hours or so.

Generated by the console.

[Dador]

Davis console manual says:

Rain Storm
Rain Storm displays the rain total of the last rain event. It takes two tips of the rain
bucket to begin a storm event and 24 hours without rain to end a storm event.
Press RAINDAY to toggle between the daily rain total and the Rain Storm total.
Rain accumulation may be displayed as either millimeters (mm) or inches (in).

Storm rain also displays on every Davis console.

[johnd]

It can be thought of as the total amount of rain that has fallen since the last fully dry day. Maybe yesterday was dry, in which case the storm rain would simply be today's rain. Or maybe it has rained every day for a month, in which case the storm total would be much greater.

A dry day is defined as a day with no more than 1 rainfall tip, since that could have potentially been caused eg by dew alone.

Calling it storm rain is a slightly unfortunate term IMHO. I imagine that it really relates to a mostly dry climate that is punctuated by heavy and potentially long-duration storms. But other climates might often have a little rain every day for a week, which personally I wouldn't call storm rain at all.

[pricey]

Ok all
That's clearer.

Thank you

[davidmc36]

I've never seen it when there is a small amount of rain for several days in a row. It only seems to appear when there is a sustained period with at least a few moderate to heavy downpour periods.

I never click the button to look, it pops up on the scroll when it has been raining hard for a while.