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Latest Cumulus MX V3 release 3.28.6 (build 3283) - 21 March 2024
Cumulus MX V4 beta test release 4.0.0 (build 4019) - 03 April 2024
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Enter trace for rainfall
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- Posts: 23
- Joined: Fri 07 Mar 2014 7:05 pm
- Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro 2
- Operating System: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
- Location: Ashkum, Illinois
Enter trace for rainfall
I'm part of the CoCoRHaS rainfall network. When entering my daily report they have a way to enter trace amounts of rain or snow, using T. It would be nice to be able to enter this too in Cumulus .
- PaulMy
- Posts: 3849
- Joined: Sun 28 Sep 2008 11:54 pm
- Weather Station: Davis VP2 Plus 24-Hour FARS
- Operating System: Windows8 and Windows10
- Location: Komoka, ON Canada
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Re: Enter trace for rainfall
I use the "Current" field to get the previous 24 hours snowfall on my Cumulus template page, including 'Trace', and the "Weather Diary" for the snow "Lying, Depth and Falling" - if there is a trace of snow I leave the "Lying" and "Depth" un-ticked, and tick "Falling". However, I don't do anything manual in Cumulus for rain. I do keep a manual log of the CoCoRaHS daily precipitation reported and what the Davis/Cumulus shows.
Paul
Paul
VP2+
C1 www.komokaweather.com/komokaweather-ca
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MX https://komokaweather.com/cumulusmxwll/index.htm /index.html /index.php
MX https:// komokaweather.com/cumulusmx4/index.htm
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MX https:// komokaweather.com/cumulusmx4/index.htm
- steve
- Cumulus Author
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Re: Enter trace for rainfall
Cumulus isn't intended for manual observations, it's for reading and displaying data from an automatic weather station. I did add the manual entry of snow as an exception, because at the time I lived somewhere with significant snowfall, and occasionally I allow myself the luxury of adding something to Cumulus which I find useful myself.
As Paul says, there are fields for entering text manually, such as the current conditions field, and the 'diary'.
As Paul says, there are fields for entering text manually, such as the current conditions field, and the 'diary'.
Steve