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 Post subject: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:54 pm 
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Ok Steve in my cumulus it says i have 20.12 inches of rain for the year when i only have 13.24 inches of rain so far for the year. there has to be a way to fix this


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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:05 pm 
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The annual rainfall total is calculated from the daily totals in dayfile.txt.

Please zip up the diags folder and attach it, together with your dayfile.txt file.

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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:10 pm 
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ok what exactly am i doing here can u give me detailed info, and what will this do, will this fix my yearly rainfall?


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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:14 pm 
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how do i zip it i found the files and also attach that other file to it. I ziped it and i copyied and pasted the dayfile into that folder. Do i delete the open file and the dayfile


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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:16 pm 
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Instructions are in the post linked to above where it says 'Please click here before posting'.

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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:23 pm 
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Steve i dont see that link, Now the yearly rain rate is correct for the monthly but there is nothing in the monthly. I do not see were the link is


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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:40 pm 
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Here is my Diags i cant figure this out eh


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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:06 pm 
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When you started Cumulus at 08:28 on the 9th June, it hadn't been run (in that folder, with that data) since 7th May, and your logger data - at a 1-minute interval - didn't go back far enough to cover all of the missing period. Consequently, most of the rain since that date was recorded for 9th June - 13.18 inches. You can correct that day's value using the dayfile.txt editor on the edit menu, and then restart Cumulus. You can then apply a 'year to date' value in the station settings to allow for the rain which has fallen on the days this year where you haven't been using Cumulus.

If you want to correct this month's total, you will have to either add the amount missing for the days where you haven't been using Cumulus in June to an existing entry for June in dayfile.txt (thus making that day's total incorrect), or you can create a dummy entry in dayfile.txt for a day in June with just the extra rainfall for June. Note that if you do this, it will also affect your annual total.

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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:58 pm 
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Ok Steve i understand how to edit it but i cant figure out how. for my monthly totals it is 1.19 for june and for the year is 13.41 how can i make it so the 1.19 stays and i can bump the yearly average?


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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:12 pm 
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Ok Update i have the numbers close to were i need them. Now from here on out will cumulus keep a correct rain file from were i have it. As in were i edit it from and the rain to come. Steve


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 Post subject: Re: Incorrect annual rainfall
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:48 am 
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stormchaser911 wrote:
Now from here on out will cumulus keep a correct rain file from were i have it.

That's the way it usually works, yes.

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