It has been raining pretty much all day here in Central Maine, and I've never had this issue before with my VP2 or WeatherLink, but around 10:30AM the rain reading on WeatherLink jumped from 0.79" (and counting at the time) to 2.82"! I'm not sure why it jumped so suddenly. The rain rate still shows normal data. Of course after this happened my rain total for the day is way off now, not something I want in my data set since its the first day of a new year.
Anyone have any thoughts on what could have happened? I don't believe there is a way to correct this erroneous data point on my end, so I did email Davis Support in hopes they can clear the bad data.
Oh, and I know the bad data didn't come from the ISS because I have a display console and that never showed the erratic data but instead still shows the correct rainfall total for the day, which makes this even more confusing to me. It's definitely something on the WeatherLink end.
I've attached a screenshot of the erratic jump in rainfall, and another image with the rainfall rate included to show that there was no random spike in rainfall rate to cause the rainfall total to suddenly surge.
