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== My monthly and/or annual rainfall totals are wrong == | == My monthly and/or annual rainfall totals are wrong == | ||
The monthly and annual rainfall totals are calculated from [[FAQ#My_station_invented_some_rain_that_didn.27t_really_occur.2C_and_I_want_to_set_it_to_zero_.28or_some_other_figure.29 |today's rain total]] in [[today.ini]] and the daily totals in [[Dayfile.txt]]. There is a built in editor for ''Today's rain''. The format of the dayfile.txt file is in the help file | The monthly and annual rainfall totals are calculated from [[FAQ#My_station_invented_some_rain_that_didn.27t_really_occur.2C_and_I_want_to_set_it_to_zero_.28or_some_other_figure.29 |today's rain total]] in [[today.ini]] and the daily totals in [[Dayfile.txt]]. There is a built in editor for ''Today's rain''. The format of the dayfile.txt file is in the help file (in the section “Data log file format”), or in [[Dayfile.txt|Wiki here]]; if you need to edit it: | ||
* Optionally stop Cumulus and use an external editor to edit the daily totals in dayfile.txt until your monthly and annual totals are correct. | * Optionally stop Cumulus and use an external editor to edit the daily totals in dayfile.txt until your monthly and annual totals are correct. | ||
* Alternatively, you can use the built-in ''dayfile.txt'' editor to amend the daily totals. | * Alternatively, you can leave Cumulus running and use the built-in ''dayfile.txt'' editor to amend the daily totals. | ||
If you need to, you can specify a year-to-date total to add in for the period up to the point where you started using Cumulus, so that your first year’s total is correct. This is on the Station Configuration screen. Make sure you specify the first Cumulus operating year here, otherwise the extra will be added to the annual total for the wrong year! | If you need to, you can specify a year-to-date total to add in for the period up to the point where you started using Cumulus, so that your first year’s total is correct. This is on the Station Configuration screen. Make sure you specify the first Cumulus operating year here, otherwise the extra will be added to the annual total for the wrong year! | ||
In all cases then restart Cumulus to get the monthly and annual totals recalculated. | In all cases then restart Cumulus to get the monthly and annual totals recalculated from correct daily totals. | ||
If you know roughly when the rogue rainfall was recorded, find it in the [[monthly_log_files]], field 11 is the count used to derive | If you need to correct within day values for trend graphs as well as the longer period totals, provided you know roughly when the rogue rainfall was recorded, find (and edit) it in the [[monthly_log_files]], field 11 is the count used to derive other parameters. | ||
== The ‘gust’ line has disappeared from my graph == | == The ‘gust’ line has disappeared from my graph == | ||