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Where does Cumulus get its monthly and annual rainfall totals from?
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==How is my rain rate calculated?== | ==How is my rain rate calculated?== | ||
For stations which supply a rain rate, Cumulus uses that. For stations which don't supply a rain rate (e.g. Fine Offset and La Crosse), Cumulus simply takes the rain total from the last five minutes and calculates a rate based on that; e.g. 0.3mm in 5 minutes is a rate of 3.6mm/hr. | For stations which supply a rain rate, Cumulus uses that. For stations which don't supply a rain rate (e.g. Fine Offset and La Crosse), Cumulus simply takes the rain total from the last five minutes and calculates a rate based on that; e.g. 0.3mm in 5 minutes is a rate of 3.6mm/hr. | ||
==Where does Cumulus get its monthly and annual rainfall totals from?== | |||
It adds up the corresponding daily totals in dayfile.txt. If your monthly and/or annual totals are incorrect, then you need to correct the daily totals which make up those figures, with Cumulus stopped. | |||
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