{"id":8469,"date":"2023-09-11T19:51:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2023-09-11T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:51:43","slug":"aint-gonna-rain-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=8469","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t gonna rain no more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3.2 miles]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My weather station is refusing to record rain these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-from-2023-09-11-19-42-59-1024x583.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-from-2023-09-11-19-42-59-1024x583.png 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-from-2023-09-11-19-42-59-700x399.png 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-from-2023-09-11-19-42-59-768x438.png 768w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-from-2023-09-11-19-42-59-1536x875.png 1536w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-from-2023-09-11-19-42-59-1200x684.png 1200w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-from-2023-09-11-19-42-59.png 1848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks like it gave up in February or March sometime and just hasn&#8217;t recorded any rain since then.  We&#8217;ve got all of the rest of the readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what happened.   I am suspicious that maybe some ants or ladybugs crawled under the sensor and blocked it from getting any readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The type of unit I have is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unavco.org\/projects\/project-support\/polar\/support\/WXT520.pdf\">Vaisala WXT520 <\/a>which is kind of a high-end unit.  But it is old.  The rain sensor somehow measures the amount of rain hitting a large metal cap.  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m wondering if mine has something wedged under there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have another one.  I&#8217;m thinking about swapping out the old one and see if that changes anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3.2 miles] My weather station is refusing to record rain these days. It looks like it gave up in February or March sometime and just hasn&#8217;t recorded any rain since then. We&#8217;ve got all of the rest of the readings. I&#8217;m not sure what happened. I am suspicious that maybe some ants or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8471,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}