Topic: Height above ground setting.

[G.Brown]

Hi - Couldn't find a post about this so... when setting up your station (on WU) it asks for 'Elevation' (required) fair enough, but also 'height above ground' (not marked as required) and I am wondering if this setting will have any bearing on my readings and if so does it mean height above ground of the sensor array or the console? ...or the (separate) barometric pressure sensor ftm. I can only see it being relevant for the pressure sensor but would have though that was already covered by 'elevation'.

...Another question while I'm here - what is the 'medal' that some stations have?  ...as it doesn't seem to correspond with their accuracy...
Thanks, Gord.

[davidmc36]

Height above ground:

https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=37702.0

[G.Brown]

thanks for that link David.
so Height above ground seems to be for WU to add a correction factor to your WIND data as most people dont have it at the ideal height, which may explain why my wind speed readings on wu seem to be higher than shown on my console.
I am personally more interested in the wind speed at low level for when I go out on my bike,  but I suppose the readings at the ideal height are for weather prediction, but I imagine most people are using wu to see the conditions that apply to them personally, rather than making a contribution to forecast data.

[awsum140]

The "medal" seems to be awarded on a random and capricious basis regardless of accuracy or reliability.  I've come to the conclusion that it is worthless and the problem is that there are a finite number of them.  As a result they get moved around.  You'd think a company the size of IBM, with their resources, could afford to have more than enough cheap medals to go around, but it doesn't seem to be the case. 

[davidmc36]

You may be just right about the finite amount. I had one for a week or so a couple weeks ago then it is gone lol

[galfert]

Maybe WU should do like the Covid vaccine and give out half WU stars.

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