{"id":307,"date":"2011-12-20T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:21:16","slug":"rain-gauge-retry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/rain-gauge-retry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Gauge Retry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time looking at my rain gauge today.\u00a0 I took it apart and sealed every place I could find with clear silicone and liquid electrical tape.\u00a0 I poured water through the gauge and watched for any leaks.\u00a0 To be honest I couldn&#8217;t really find any problems other than the fact that a spider had made the inside of the gauge its&#8217; new home.\u00a0 After sealing and testing (and shooing away the spider) I buttoned everything back up.\u00a0 I re-enabled the gauge in my software configuration and watched the readings.\u00a0 So far no errors, but it hasn&#8217;t rained yet.\u00a0 Rain is in the forecast for later this week so I&#8217;ll wait until then and see how the gauge does.\u00a0 Hopefully all will be well.<\/p>\n<p>I also learned that I need to add some more error checking to my ftp scripts that copy the weather data to my ISP.\u00a0 I found quite a few of them had hung and were still running.\u00a0 I ran a quick command to find and kill all of them at once.\u00a0 I may schedule that command to run periodically using cron, but I see that as a band-aid type of fix.\u00a0 I really need to fix the ftp scripts instead.\u00a0 Oh well, I didn&#8217;t want to run out of things to do, did I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time looking at my rain gauge today.\u00a0 I took it apart and sealed every place I could find with clear silicone and liquid electrical tape.\u00a0 I poured water through the gauge and watched for any leaks.\u00a0 To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/rain-gauge-retry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}