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== Dealing with rogue measurements == | == Dealing with rogue measurements == | ||
Cumulus provides via '''Configuration''' menu ''Calibration'' screen the ability to screen out spikes 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 [[FAQ]] for further advice. | 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. | ||
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 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: | ||
* update the highs and lows in [[Alltime.ini]] by choosing ''all time records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. See [[Alltimelog.txt]] for current and previous values to help you know what rogue value to hunt for and know what the high/low value was before the rogue affected it. | * update the highs and lows in [[Alltime.ini]] by choosing ''all time records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. See [[Alltimelog.txt]] for current and previous values to help you know what rogue value to hunt for and know what the high/low value was before the rogue affected it. | ||
* update the highs and lows in [[year.ini]] by choosing ''This year's records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. | * update the highs and lows in [[year.ini]] by choosing ''This year's records'' from the '''Edit''' menu. | ||