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Offline miraculon

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Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« on: September 11, 2019, 11:48:17 AM »
I get the emailed quality report daily for my station C4114.

The "Speed knts" column has crazy errors showing in bold, in the thousands of units.

Here is a small sample from today:
Date                   UTC   Alt (mb)     Temp °F          DewPt °F            Wind Dir    Speed knts

10-SEP-2019   0150   1024.6   -0.69   54   +2.74   48   -0.17           360   +65   0.9   +3258.9
10-SEP-2019   0155   1024.5   -0.59   54   +2.74   48   -0.17              0   +43   0.0   +4458.2
10-SEP-2019   0240   1023.8   -0.52   54   +2.94   49   -0.88           360   +66   0.9   +1936.8

My data on MesoWest looks good with all "OK".

Anyone else seeing this and/or know what is going on? I don't think that my wind speed errors are in the Mach range... :shock:

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2019, 12:48:30 PM »
Same here on DW9356.  I am failing 49/49 in the "Wind Dir" and the "Speed Knts" columns.   

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2019, 06:38:47 PM »
Me too.  This is the second day I got such an email (FW4751):

Date   UTC   Alt (mb)   Temp °F   DewPt °F   Wind Dir   Speed knts
10-SEP-2019   0040   1011.9   +0.04   75   -1.89   56   +1.51   268   -53   3.5   +2224.4
10-SEP-2019   0045   1011.8   +0.14   75   -1.89   56   +1.51   277   -64   3.5   +2492.0
10-SEP-2019   0050   1011.9   +0.04   75   -1.89   56   +2.04   280   -67   4.3   +2529.1
10-SEP-2019   0055   1011.8   +0.14   75   -1.89   56   +2.04   274   -61   3.5   +2530.4
10-SEP-2019   0140   1012.1   +0.08   72   -3.78   55   +0.78   272   -57   5.2   +2223.5
10-SEP-2019   0145   1012.1   +0.08   71   -2.78   55   +1.22   278   -65   4.3   +2491.7
10-SEP-2019   0150   1012.3   -0.12   71   -2.78   55   +1.22   276   -63   2.6   +2531.6
10-SEP-2019   0155   1012.4   -0.22   70   -1.78   55   +1.68   274   -61   3.5   +2530.4
10-SEP-2019   0240   1012.7   -0.39   66   -0.47   56   -0.12   267   -52   3.5   +2225.0
10-SEP-2019   0245   1012.8   -0.49   66   -0.47   56   -0.52   274   -61   1.7   +2494.2
10-SEP-2019   0250   1012.7   -0.39   65   +0.53   55   +0.05   272   -59   0.9   +2533.1
10-SEP-2019   0255   1012.7   -0.39   65   +0.53   55   +0.05   268   -55   2.6   +2531.4
10-SEP-2019   0340   1012.8   -0.42   64   +0.20   56   -0.60   256   -42   0.9   +2227.0
10-SEP-2019   0345   1012.8   -0.42   64   +0.20   56   -0.60   262   -49   1.7   +2558.4
10-SEP-2019   0350   1012.8   -0.42   64   +0.20   55   -0.22   241   -28   1.7   +2558.4
10-SEP-2019   0355   1012.8   -0.42   64   +0.20   55   -0.22   233   -20   0.9   +2559.3
10-SEP-2019   0440   1013.1   -0.30   62   +0.50   54   +0.05   0   -128   0.0   +2042.0
10-SEP-2019   0545   1013.1   -0.31   61   +1.11   54   -0.10   0   -131   0.0   +2500.7
10-SEP-2019   0550   1013.1   -0.31   61   +1.11   54   -0.10   0   -130   0.0   +2566.1
10-SEP-2019   0555   1013.1   -0.31   61   +1.11   54   -0.10   254   -41   2.6   +2563.4
10-SEP-2019   0640   1013.0   -0.48   62   -0.87   54   -0.27   236   -20   1.7   +2107.5
10-SEP-2019   0645   1012.9   -0.38   62   -0.87   54   -0.27   235   -22   1.7   +2562.0
10-SEP-2019   0650   1012.9   -0.38   62   -0.87   54   -0.27   230   -17   0.9   +2562.8
10-SEP-2019   0655   1012.9   -0.38   62   -0.87   54   -0.27   247   -34   0.9   +2562.8
10-SEP-2019   0740   1012.8   -0.37   62   -0.24   55   -0.23   235   -20   0.9   +1994.0
10-SEP-2019   0745   1012.8   -0.37   62   -0.24   55   -0.23   263   -50   0.9   +2535.5
10-SEP-2019   0750   1012.8   -0.37   62   -0.24   55   -0.23   0   -130   0.0   +2563.9
10-SEP-2019   0755   1012.8   -0.37   62   -0.24   55   -0.23   278   -65   0.9   +2562.8
10-SEP-2019   0840   1012.9   -0.49   61   -0.46   54   -0.28   0   -128   0.0   +1931.0
10-SEP-2019   0845   1012.9   -0.49   61   -0.46   54   -0.28   0   -130   0.0   +2497.7
10-SEP-2019   0940   1012.4   -0.37   61   -1.24   55   -1.37   230   -15   0.9   +1993.4
10-SEP-2019   0945   1012.4   -0.37   61   -1.24   55   -1.37   215   -2   0.9   +2434.0
10-SEP-2019   0950   1012.4   -0.37   61   -1.24   55   -1.37   196   +17   0.9   +2560.7
10-SEP-2019   0955   1012.4   -0.37   60   -0.24   54   -0.40   0   -130   0.0   +2561.6
10-SEP-2019   1040   1012.4   -0.29   58   +0.35   54   -0.04   0   -128   0.0   +2179.8
10-SEP-2019   Errs   0/52   0/52   0/52   38/38   38/38
10-SEP-2019   Smry   -0.3   0.16   -0   1.26   -0   0.76   -63   46   +2414.2   202.7

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2019, 06:45:46 PM »
I should add that the 3-day Madis report shows this for wind (FW4751):
https://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/search?site=F4751;Get%20information=Get%20information;days=3#Data
   
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rating   MADIS rating 73% QC OK
Sensor fails following checks:
L3 Spatial Consistency (with this link describing that check: https://madis.noaa.gov/madis_sfc_qc.shtml).





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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2019, 08:19:00 AM »
I sent an email to MADIS support regarding this issue.

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2019, 06:13:35 PM »
I sent an email to MADIS support regarding this issue.

Thank you!

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2019, 03:18:34 PM »
I chatted with Philip Gladstone. Here is what he had to say.

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2019, 03:39:13 PM »
Thanks for the update from Philip as it continues to be a problem for me.

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2019, 10:15:11 AM »
I don't check CWOP every day, but I was startled yesterday when I did.

Got a big, "Thumbs Down" on my wind reporting, though all my numbers looked fine to me.  I noticed that the red "analysis" line was incomplete.

I will stop worrying about it, it's "them not us".

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2019, 04:45:55 PM »
I sent an email to MADIS support regarding this issue.

Greg H.

Did you hear back from MADIS?  I had been troubleshooting this robustly until I came across this posting...

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2019, 08:39:07 AM »
I sent an email to MADIS support regarding this issue.

Greg H.

Did you hear back from MADIS?  I had been troubleshooting this robustly until I came across this posting...

No, I never did. I checked my emails and see that the 06-OCT-2019 report has a blank in the "Speed knts" column. The prior one from  16-SEP-2019 still had the error.

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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2019, 12:32:55 PM »
Just reviving this post to see if anyone has figured out what's going on with the wind QC...I still see crazy wind velocities posted for my station.  Thx!
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Re: Weather Quality Report Wind Speed "errors"
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2020, 08:21:18 AM »
I also emailed the MADIS folks and got no reply either.