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→‎My monthly and/or annual rainfall totals are wrong

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 * The rainfall total reported by the ''<#ryear>'' web tag is for the rainfall season to date, it is calculated from taking today's rain and then adding the sum of the totals in dayfile.txt starting with the first (meteorological) day of the month specified in the 'rainfall season' frame on the ''station settings'' screen within the '''Configuration''' menu, until the end of dayfile.txt is reached. So check you have specified the right starting month there before deciding the rainfall total shown is wrong.
-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 also 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 also on the [[Cumulus_Screenshots#Station|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!
 See immediately preceding 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 |correcting rainfall]]  for how to correct errors in total for particular days and how to correct the high extremes for the various periods.