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Cumulus has various wind speed, temperature, and rainfall related fields, not directly available from weather station outputs. See, for example ''EasyWeather'' differences in [[FAQ#What_do_the_various_wind_speeds_in_Cumulus_correspond_to.2C_with_Fine_Offset_stations.3F|FAQ: What do the various wind speeds in Cumulus correspond to with Fine Offset stations]] and other answers in the FAQ to pursue this or visit the support Forum for assistance. See the workaround described below for a way of getting Cumulus to generate (from your newly created monthly logs) apparent temperature, heat index, rain rate, wind run and other parameters that may not be available from your weather station. | Cumulus has various wind speed, temperature, and rainfall related fields, not directly available from weather station outputs. See, for example ''EasyWeather'' differences in [[FAQ#What_do_the_various_wind_speeds_in_Cumulus_correspond_to.2C_with_Fine_Offset_stations.3F|FAQ: What do the various wind speeds in Cumulus correspond to with Fine Offset stations]] and other answers in the FAQ to pursue this or visit the support Forum for assistance. See the workaround described below for a way of getting Cumulus to generate (from your newly created monthly logs) apparent temperature, heat index, rain rate, wind run and other parameters that may not be available from your weather station. | ||
The date that Cumulus first started | The date that Cumulus first started tracking all-time records (<#recordsbegandate> see [[Webtags#Records]]), does ''not'' need to be updated for Cumulus to recognise earlier monthly log files in its ''data'' subfolder and in the various display options available from the Cumulus main screen. If you use the '''Edit''' functions to update the stored extremes as described above, any monthly logs found will be used, not just those after the initial Cumulus start date recorded in cumulus.ini, so the date will no longer reflect the start of analysis for all-time records. If you do choose to edit the start date, the method is to stop Cumulus, and amend the ''StartDate='' line in [[cumulus.ini]] within the main Cumulus folder before re-starting Cumulus, but (in case you make a mistake) back up everything first! | ||
If you leave the start date unchanged note that <#recordsbegandate> is on the default Cumulus ''recordsT.htm'' template with the label "Records began on", and you might want to amend that label wording on that template to indicate it is the date that Cumulus running began, rather than the date the station began operating and producing observations. | |||
===Using Monthly logs to deal with shorter (or incomplete) dayfile.txt records for particular dates=== | ===Using Monthly logs to deal with shorter (or incomplete) dayfile.txt records for particular dates=== | ||