General Question WH1081 and Cumulus

[MarkAUS]

Hi, I'm using the Wh1081 station with cumulus software.

The question i have being a "newbie" is why does cumulus report fine weather and the WH1081 tendency is clouds with a sun but outside is drizzle with clouds?

I've set my relative pressure up with the weather forecasters here, also I checked with outher users website and my pressure looks roughly the same as theirs.

I'm a bit baffled by that!

many thanks

[Charlie]

The two forecasts are created completely independently with different algorithms.

[Orion]

The Weather icon on the Wh1081 can be adjusted independently of the pressure setting
just set the icon to what you think the picture will be in a few hours

[beteljuice]

Remember it's a FORECAST, not a nowcast.

Could be anywhere between 5hrs => 30hrs in the future depending on the rate of change of conditions.

[Synewave]

MarkAUS,

Yes, I think you've missed the point as Beteljuice has said, it's a forecast, not the current conditions as you look out of the window.

[philcdav]

heh MarkAUS

u might take a look at the console 'tendency' display.

I found that, like all the other displayed items, this can be toggled thru a preset list.

Play around with the display and you may get it to sync with the actual weather , albeit a few hours later.

[Ned]

and don't forgot to have the salt shaker handy

[dougie6653]

hi
just bought my ws 1090 and been reading the forums in respect of setting the tendency of the weather. cant find anything that explains it in simple terms that i understand. Why should you need to set it manually? I had an oragon scientific in/out thermometer for years. It had a tendency window which was fairly accurate but it came out of the box that way.
any help appreciated.
thanks