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Cumulus provides via '''Configuration''' menu ''Calibration'' screen the ability to screen out spikes (magnitude of differences between one value read and next value read) in data picked up from your weather station. See Cumulus help screen if you decide to use that to cope with some spikes.
Cumulus provides via '''Configuration''' menu ''Calibration'' screen the ability to screen out spikes (magnitude of differences between one value read and next value read) in data picked up from your weather station. See Cumulus help screen if you decide to use that to cope with some spikes.


If you discover a rogue measurement (perhaps the wind affected your tiping bucket rain gauge or your weather station just reported a corrupted value), on the day it occured, see [[today.ini]] or a [[FAQ]] for further advice.  In general, you need to stop Cumulus, edit the monthly log row containing the dodgy values, edit 'today.ini' and possibly other '.ini' files, looking up the logs that show the updates with previous high or low.
If you discover a rogue measurement (perhaps the wind affected your tipping bucket rain gauge or your weather station just reported a corrupted value), on the day it occured, see [[today.ini]] or a [[FAQ]] for further advice.  In general, you need to stop Cumulus, edit the monthly log row containing the dodgy values, edit 'today.ini' and possibly other '.ini' files, looking up the logs indicated below that show the updates with previous high or low.


If the rogue measurement is discovered some days after it occured, then in many cases it will have affected your highs and lows for the current month, month-by-month, current year, and/or all-time.  As your first step you should update the appropriate field in the row for the affected date in dayfile.txt. Once ''dayfile.txt is correct'' the Cumulus editors will allow you to:
If the rogue measurement is discovered some days after it occured, then in many cases it will have affected your highs and lows for the current month, month-by-month, current year, and/or all-time.  As your first step you should update the appropriate field in the row for the affected date in dayfile.txt. Once ''dayfile.txt is correct'' the Cumulus editors will allow you to:
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