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Rain conversion from inches to mm
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Rain conversion from inches to mm
I have a US version davis vantage vue that measures rain in inches, and I have cumulusmx set to metric/mm.
I just checked the daily rain up until now, and it's at 7.25 inches, but cumulusmx reads 145mm (should be 184mm).
I recall there is some conversion error that is introduced, but is it that much? Is there any work-around to get it closer? Thanks.
I just checked the daily rain up until now, and it's at 7.25 inches, but cumulusmx reads 145mm (should be 184mm).
I recall there is some conversion error that is introduced, but is it that much? Is there any work-around to get it closer? Thanks.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
Why not change the setting in CumulusMX to inches?
Station settings -> General settings -> Units
Station settings -> General settings -> Units
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
Unlike previous answer, I assume you do want metric output from Cumulus despite having an imperial gauge.
Is Station settings -> Davis VP/VP2/Vue -> Davis Advanced Options -> Rain gauge Type set to Imperial (0.01 in) ?
Is Station settings -> General settings -> Units -> Advanced options -> Rainfall decimals set to 2?
Your conversion from imperial to metric calculations will need both of those advanced options set correctly.
Is Station settings -> Davis VP/VP2/Vue -> Davis Advanced Options -> Rain gauge Type set to Imperial (0.01 in) ?
Is Station settings -> General settings -> Units -> Advanced options -> Rainfall decimals set to 2?
Your conversion from imperial to metric calculations will need both of those advanced options set correctly.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
I can’t speak for Cumulus MX but with Cumulus Steve posted a warning that changing the setting from imperial to metric or vice-versa would mess up every entry in dayfile.txt and the monthly and all-time records.
Be careful!
Be careful!
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
The previous two post are both correct.
If you configure Cumulus to use mm for rain it assumes you have a metric (0.2mm) rain gauge. If you have an imperial gauge then you have to override that behaviour as @sfw posted.
But as Ray posted, if you change the gauge type then that will mess up some entries you already have in the day file which record the number of bucket tips as well as rainfall in your chosen units.
If you configure Cumulus to use mm for rain it assumes you have a metric (0.2mm) rain gauge. If you have an imperial gauge then you have to override that behaviour as @sfw posted.
But as Ray posted, if you change the gauge type then that will mess up some entries you already have in the day file which record the number of bucket tips as well as rainfall in your chosen units.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
I'm looking in the Cumulus MX admin web page/dashboard, but I don't see those entries under Station settings. The closest thing I see is Station settings -> Units -> Rain = mm.sfws wrote: ↑Fri 23 Jul 2021 7:55 pm Unlike previous answer, I assume you do want metric output from Cumulus despite having an imperial gauge.
Is Station settings -> Davis VP/VP2/Vue -> Davis Advanced Options -> Rain gauge Type set to Imperial (0.01 in) ?
Is Station settings -> General settings -> Units -> Advanced options -> Rainfall decimals set to 2?
Your conversion from imperial to metric calculations will need both of those advanced options set correctly.
I thought for sure I'd gone through this before and it checked out, reasonably close (not perfect). But that was with the old windows version. I can't find the settings for Rain gauge type and rainfall decimals in cumulusmx.mcrossley wrote: ↑Fri 23 Jul 2021 10:40 pm The previous two post are both correct.
If you configure Cumulus to use mm for rain it assumes you have a metric (0.2mm) rain gauge. If you have an imperial gauge then you have to override that behaviour as @sfw posted.
But as Ray posted, if you change the gauge type then that will mess up some entries you already have in the day file which record the number of bucket tips as well as rainfall in your chosen units.
(that's when I was checking it out before, with the old windows version)
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
VP Advanced settings...
Units Advanced settings...
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
I'm running cumulusmx b3043. I had tried to upgrade before but ran into too many problems getting the ftp transfer to work, so went back to that since the ftp transfer worked well with that version.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
OK, I updated to the latest version, 3133. The ftp transfer is working, and I made the changes.
Before: After: It looks like that "Rain Gauge Type" was just not there in the older cumulusmx version, though I'm pretty certain there was something like that in the old windows version. I'd guess the last 3 years I've been running mx the rain data has been off. You'd think I would have noticed earlier.
I'll see if the change helps or makes it worse, and then try to figure out how to correct the old data.
Before: After: It looks like that "Rain Gauge Type" was just not there in the older cumulusmx version, though I'm pretty certain there was something like that in the old windows version. I'd guess the last 3 years I've been running mx the rain data has been off. You'd think I would have noticed earlier.
I'll see if the change helps or makes it worse, and then try to figure out how to correct the old data.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
The rain gauge setting was there in old versions of MX, but you had to set it via the Cumulus.ini file (the same with C1 I think). Newer version expose it via the settings, I've been trying to expose all the settings so people no longer need to edit the .ini file manually.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
Thanks. The new version seems to be working properly, and doing the conversion correctly with the 2 setting changes.
Now I'll try to figure out how to correct the old data. I think I can write a script to do it, but I need to read up on the purposes for the different data files.
Now I'll try to figure out how to correct the old data. I think I can write a script to do it, but I need to read up on the purposes for the different data files.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
I corrected the rain data from the old version of CumulusMX, in the dayfile.txt and the month files (MonYYlog.txt).
Do you know if the month*.ini and year*.ini files will get regenerated by the software, maybe at midnight? Or is there a process I can run to regenerate them? Or do I need to correct those manually?
For future reference, the fields affected in the dayfile.txt were:
field 13 = Maximum rainfall rate
field 15 = Total rainfall for the day
field 32 = High hourly rain
And for the month files:
field 9 = current rainfall rate
field 10 = today rainfall so far
field 27 = total rainfall since midnight
I used awk to correct the field data. As an example, $9 (referenced twice) is the field number. The second reference does the correction ($9*1.27).
Do you know if the month*.ini and year*.ini files will get regenerated by the software, maybe at midnight? Or is there a process I can run to regenerate them? Or do I need to correct those manually?
For future reference, the fields affected in the dayfile.txt were:
field 13 = Maximum rainfall rate
field 15 = Total rainfall for the day
field 32 = High hourly rain
And for the month files:
field 9 = current rainfall rate
field 10 = today rainfall so far
field 27 = total rainfall since midnight
I used awk to correct the field data. As an example, $9 (referenced twice) is the field number. The second reference does the correction ($9*1.27).
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awk 'BEGIN {FS=",";OFS=","} {$9=sprintf("%.2f",$9*1.27);print}' copy-of-logfile.txt > copy-of-logfile-2.txt
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
NO!
NO! (Although Mark has mentioned plans for a "CreateRecords" utility)
No need to use that multiplier to edit the few rainfall values within extreme record files.
It will not take you long to work through the rainfall values using Edit menu -> This Year's records to see if the rainfall values (the times/dates are not affected) shown on left (in year.ini) need editing because values on right (your corrected dayfile.txt) are now different,
There are other extreme files, look for those extremes in edit menu, or read https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Correcting_Extremes for the full instructions.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
Thanks.sfws wrote: ↑Mon 26 Jul 2021 9:41 am It will not take you long to work through the rainfall values using Edit menu -> This Year's records to see if the rainfall values (the times/dates are not affected) shown on left (in year.ini) need editing because values on right (your corrected dayfile.txt) are now different,
There are other extreme files, look for those extremes in edit menu, or read https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Correcting_Extremes for the full instructions.
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Re: Rain conversion from inches to mm
I looked at the data some more, and I think the problem started in April 2020, not in June 2018 (when I converted from windows to CumulusMX).
In April 2020 my Cumulus.ini file got corrupted; I think due to rebooting without stopping the process cleanly, but I'm not sure. In any case, I had to redo the setup. I suspect the original Cumulus.ini file brought over from windows had the appropriate rain gauge setting. And when I had to redo the setup, it was no longer there and not possible to set it from the CumulusMX admin web interface.
Looking at field 10 & 12 from the monthly log files:
field 10 = today rainfall so far
field 12 = total rainfall counter
Prior to the Cumulus.ini re-setup, I saw the values increase in odd increments often, suggesting it was doing the imperial to metric conversion (like going from *.2 to *.5). Afterwards, it was even increments, multiples of 0.2.
In April 2020 my Cumulus.ini file got corrupted; I think due to rebooting without stopping the process cleanly, but I'm not sure. In any case, I had to redo the setup. I suspect the original Cumulus.ini file brought over from windows had the appropriate rain gauge setting. And when I had to redo the setup, it was no longer there and not possible to set it from the CumulusMX admin web interface.
Looking at field 10 & 12 from the monthly log files:
field 10 = today rainfall so far
field 12 = total rainfall counter
Prior to the Cumulus.ini re-setup, I saw the values increase in odd increments often, suggesting it was doing the imperial to metric conversion (like going from *.2 to *.5). Afterwards, it was even increments, multiples of 0.2.