Well, yeah...the manual will always be more accurate.
Well, yeah...I'll always be a bit lazy. Just get me in the ballpark and gimmie a beer...
Seriously, though, I can't (don't know how) to automatically pull in manual readings into my website. So getting as close as I can to an automated reading is very desirable for me.
The above paragraph sounds rather confusing even to me, and I wrote it.
Off-topic here but just wondering, I see your location is basically due south of Montgomery. Did you get into the eye-wall of Alberto?
Yeah, it pretty much wiped it's feet on our front door mat. Not a big event, though. A lot of rain, some wind, but nothing as bad as some thunderstorms that come through from time to time...just longer period of rain and wind. It was very unlike Opal that pretty well bullseyed us...that was one storm that I did get a bit nervous about. Opened the back porch door and shined a spotlight out onto a 75' or so pecan tree only to see it's top bent over by the wind touching the ground...I closed the door and high-tailed it back to the interior hall. But, when the first eye wall passed us and we were in the eye I went outside and it was as calm as could be (except for my daughters and wife yelling at me to get back inside!
). The big pecan tree and a cousin of it both had one side of their rootballs pooched up about a foot or so above ground level. I went back inside, we passed through the other eyewall and the storm started up again. Both pecan trees were on the ground the next morning, roof damage, a good bit of timber damage. I don't want to see that again.