[wxqc] Weatherbonk and Yahoo Maps

[Keith Miller]

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> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:29 PM
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> Subject: [wxqc] Weatherbonk and Yahoo Maps
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> 2.  Why does CWOP allow passing along temp data WAY off (65
> vs. 49 degrees)?
>

CWOP only collects the data, MADIS then does the QC checks and
flags bad data as such. If someone is using data that is flagged
as questionable, that's their error.

I assume you where refering to AR868:
http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mesonet/?center_lon=-93.18331&center_lat=4
4.64612&scale=880
Is centered on your location. If you click on the AR868 marker,
The temperature data for that station is marked as having passed
stage 1, failed 2 or 3. Which means it passed the sanity check,
but failed temporal and internal consistency checks or the spatial
consistency checks. In reality, it looks they have a stuck sensors
problem.

Bad data is saved, because it may be possible to correct for an
error.


> 3.  Does anyone know why some of the weather stations like mine and
> the nearby CW5773 show in the exact position but the airport's
> position is WAY wrong?
>

Different sources have different locations recorded:
http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/KLVN?tile=10;showall=1


Keith
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