Night time Metar Icon...

[mrkarron]

Ok, its working now..  I don't know why it failed the last few nights.

[ALITTLEweird1]

Least its working for you.

[mrkarron]

ok, now it is NOT working but I know why. After dusk, the metar was reporting overcast and WD had the correct nighttime overcast icon displayed. Next hour, the metar reported overcast with light snow. The icon in WD then changed to clear and the conditions reported in WD changed from "overcast" to "overcast - ". The light snow is not reported. I unticked the use WD conditions at night in the solar setup, however nothing changed.  Only way to correct the problem is to untick 'your stations wind/rain/fog overrides the metar'

Brian, is this something that you could look into?

Ron

[ALITTLEweird1]

Do you have a solar sensor?

[mrkarron]

yes, thus overriding the sensor controlling the icon in metar setup corrected the problem. I don't remember this being a problem with rain.. It would be nice to have snow reported by a metar override the local rain setting.  Also see this thread I found: http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,21136.0.html and: http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,28070.0.html and  finally: http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,21566.0.html.

It looks like this problem has yet to be addressed by Brian.

[ALITTLEweird1]

im sure Brian can shed some light on this for you. I also have a solar sensor and have it setup to get the Metar icon for night, except when it rains/snows, then my station overrides the Metar at night.

[mrkarron]

I do not have a heated rain gauge so snow will not be recorded..  WD thinks it is dry with the solar controlling the icon. Metar cannot override the setting. See my website..  still somewhat under construction..  http://mountprospectweather.us/

[ALITTLEweird1]

Someone will correct me if im wrong, but..I beleave if you set your snow icon temp threshold icon say at 32F and your station detects precipitation, it will show the snow icon, And that should override the Metar Icon.

[mrkarron]

The snow would need to melt for the gauge to tip.

[ALITTLEweird1]

I don't have a heated rain gauge either. And i don't think it will take long for a few snow flakes to melt to get a tip on the bucket. Once your bucket measures a tip with the Snow threshold set, the icon will change to Snow. i never had any probs with my system last year during the winter. WD displayed showed the correct Icon about 95% of the time while it was snowing for me.

[mrkarron]

We have had about a 1/4 of an inch so far..  not enough water content to tip the bucket yet.   Nothing will be melting in the gauge once it gets really cold around here..  at least not until Spring. 

[ALITTLEweird1]

Looks like your site and WDL on your site are both displaying Current Snow fall at this time.

[mrkarron]

Yes, because I unticked the box 'rain/wind/etc' overides the metar. Otherwise it indicated clear.

Also notice clientraw.txt:

048 Icon Type  16 (Night Snow)
049 Weather Desc  Night time/mostly cloudy -


The word snow does not appear in the desc.

[Weather Display]

to duplicate the problem I will need a copy of the metar in use at the time the problem occurs, and also a zip copy of the settings files
and a good description of the problem (in an email)