I received this email from AerisWeather Support. Does the data look correct? Can you answer the question about rainfall rate?:
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AWTony (AerisWeather Support)
Jun 29, 2020, 7:56 AM CDT
Jim,
Looking at the station data, we receive both precip and total precip, which are precip1hr and precip24 hour respectively.
That said, we have some stations that will send precip rate for precip, vs the 1-hour precip. I think this may be what is occurring with your station. I notice one observation is:
"v1|VOWC01|2020-06-27 13:12:00|-86.198044|39.973709|902|215|4.2|16.0|74.0|4.00|29.869|72.0|93|||WiFiLogger2.16|0.23||",
Here the precip sent to us was 4.00" but the 24-hour precip looks correct 0.23.
I have confirmed we do not have WiFiLogger set up as sending precip rate, so it may be treating this value incorrectly. Can you confirm what it is sending for precip?
Lastly, we should normally use the 24-hour precip if it's available. I see the summary is, but the observation/archive which is used for the charts is not. I have created an internal ticket to have this reviewed further. Note that due to the holiday this week, it may be next week before the team can fully review.
Tony
AerisWeather Support
http://support.aerisweather.com/