Dayfile.txt

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Cumulus maintains a daily file of the highs and lows of each day, as well as a few other nugets of information.

The file is called dayfile.txt can viewed in a text editor or imported into various database systems or spreadsheets to manipulate as you wish.


Tip -- take a copy of the file to work on it elsewhere.


Format of the file

  • Date in the form dd/mm/yy
  • Highest wind gust,
  • Bearing of highest wind gust
  • Time of highest wind gust
  • Minimum temperature
  • Time of minimum temperature
  • Maximum temperature
  • Time of maximum temperature
  • Minimum sea level pressure
  • Time of minimum pressure
  • Maximum sea level pressure
  • Time of maximum pressure
  • Maximum rainfall rate
  • Time of maximum rainfall rate
  • Total rainfall for the day
  • Average temperature for the day
  • Total wind run


Example of the file

An extract of a few lines of the dayfile.txt

02/09/08,2.2,135,22:18,8.9,21:29,9.2,23:33,990.3,22:19,990.8,22:42,0.0,00:00,2.9,9.0,0.0 03/09/08,2.2,135,22:18,8.9,21:29,9.2,23:33,990.3,22:19,990.8,22:42,0.0,00:00,0.0,9.0,0.0 04/09/08,6.9,180,10:37,5.9,03:50,16.6,12:32,990.3,00:23,997.3,23:55,3.9,16:34,4.2,9.7,6.4