# Vibration causing rainfall (solved)

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/vibration-causing-rainfall-solved/3523>\
**Category:** Tempest Owners\
**Created:** [May 15, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/vibration-causing-rainfall-solved/3523 "2019-05-15T15:36:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![turfherder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@turfherder](https://community.tempest.earth/u/turfherder)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/vibration-causing-rainfall-solved/3523/1 "2019-05-15T15:36:15Z")

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I live right next to Death Valley, so I don’t get much rain. I received my solar addition to my station and installed it the day before yesterday. Ever since then I’ve been getting rainfall reports of .15” to .24” the last two days. Do you think this will correct itself?

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**Author:** ![WFmarketing](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/wfmarketing/32/62_2.png) [@WFmarketing](https://community.tempest.earth/u/WFmarketing)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/vibration-causing-rainfall-solved/3523/2 "2019-05-15T23:52:22Z")

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Hi @turfherder . Without investigating your data (send us your station ID, and we’d be happy to), this _sounds like_ there is vibration somewhere in your SKY mounting causing false rain reports. See if there is correlation between rain and wind ??? To resolve, make absolutely sure to eliminate any source of vibration anywhere in your mount. Let us know how it goes.

See also: [SKY shows continuous rain but it's not raining (cause = pole vibration in strong winds)](https://community.tempest.earth/t/sky-shows-continuous-rain-but-its-not-raining-cause-pole-vibration-in-strong-winds/2664/16)

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**Author:** ![turfherder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@turfherder](https://community.tempest.earth/u/turfherder)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/vibration-causing-rainfall-solved/3523/3 "2019-05-16T00:45:31Z")

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Thank for the reply. Vibration is what I suspected also. I went back and made sure that my mounting pole was more secure. Since 0930 I haven’t had any erroneous rainfall report

Have a Great Day,

Alan

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