Difference in Rainfall!

[alittle1]

Just bought my National Geographic W/S yesterday at WalMart for $92 CDN. Set it up this morning, took less than 2 hours including mounting. It came with touch screen and wireless using EasyWeather Software. Very easy to setup.

I found out after that it wouldn't upload to Weather Underground, that's how I came to Cumulus and Sandaysoft, because it would (should, just started today). I seem to have a problem. I have EasyWeather showing rainfall as 5.1 mm and Cumulus showing as 0.00mm, it hasn't rained in 7 days.

Any ideas where this problem comes from? All the other readings are exactly the same in BOTH weather programs. Should I be getting excited about this or is it just one of the usual glitches that one will have using this software.

I've been sitting here reading this site for the last two hours and I like what I see. You have an excellent site Steve. I like when the admin. has the same equipment as the users. Thanks for the listen.

[steve]

Over what period is that rainfall for? For the day? Cumulus works out all the rainfall figures from the 'total rainfall counter' in the station, which is simply a counter that keeps going up. It's possible that there was a temporary 'glitch' in the counter which Cumulus filtered out. Also, on the first day that you run Cumulus, it just starts counting from the first value that it reads when you first run it, so if that "rain" occurred earlier in the day, Cumulus wouldn't see it anyway.

I'm actually quite surprised that all of your other figures are exactly the same. As you can't run both at the same time, you would expect one of them to miss the peak winds (for example) that occurred while it wasn't running, as using the data from the logger isn't ideal - it doesn't store every value, so depending on your station logger interval, you may miss a few things unless you run 24/7.