[wxqc] And again

[rich.taft at att.net]

My temperature settings don't get flagged, but my pressure settings do. I can always tell when a front moves through because that nights e-mail will be loaded with "errors"

What I think is the misunderstanding here, and anyone that knows bettor feel free to correct me, is that just because you get flagged as "out of range" doesn’t mean your data isn't being collected and used, its more as a heads up message to you that, if you see the same error all day, everyday, consistently over time, that you might want to take a close look at your station for a possible problem. Temperature is one of the pieces of data that can vary widely over a very small area. The quality control software can't possibly take into account every location dependant variable when compiling the e-mail report. All it can do is compare your data with that of your nearest stations and report a discrepancy. I can't speak to all the technical details of the affects of terrain and location on temperature, but I'm sure the NWS is very happy to receive and record your data and take it into account when forming its weather models for your area.

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Richard Taft
www.taftphoto.com

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jim Pace" <unkajim at comcast.net>
> Since it was Saturday, and since I'm on vacation this week anyway, I didn't
> have to scrape any of the latest 'temperature quality checking algorithm"
> off my windshield this time. I'm sure my two cucumber plants would tell you
> what they think of the quality checks as well, but the can't....they're now
> dead, killed by the 29 degree low this AM that according to the algorithm,
> should have been 41 degrees.
> In spite of the fact that Evan takes offense to tongue-in cheek comments as
> in the above paragraph, and BTW Evan, thanks for the patronizing response,
> the question I asked before still stands: Is there anything that can be done
> for stations such as mine that have their temperature readings flagged as
> questionable when in fact they are legitimate?
> My CWOP ID is CW0825. See for yourself that the stations used to compare
> mine against are not very nearby and not in locations that often represent
> weather and temperatures in my town.
> 
> Jim
> http://ecapmiill.home.comcast.net 
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