I spent some time looking at my rain gauge today.  I took it apart and sealed every place I could find with clear silicone and liquid electrical tape.  I poured water through the gauge and watched for any leaks.  To be honest I couldn’t really find any problems other than the fact that a spider had made the inside of the gauge its’ new home.  After sealing and testing (and shooing away the spider) I buttoned everything back up.  I re-enabled the gauge in my software configuration and watched the readings.  So far no errors, but it hasn’t rained yet.  Rain is in the forecast for later this week so I’ll wait until then and see how the gauge does.  Hopefully all will be well.

I also learned that I need to add some more error checking to my ftp scripts that copy the weather data to my ISP.  I found quite a few of them had hung and were still running.  I ran a quick command to find and kill all of them at once.  I may schedule that command to run periodically using cron, but I see that as a band-aid type of fix.  I really need to fix the ftp scripts instead.  Oh well, I didn’t want to run out of things to do, did I?