Editing "All time monthly rain" figure.....

[bnwrx]

When I opened Cumlus this morning, it must have "burped". At 5:10 am, it recorded a wind gust of +98mph and a wind speed of the same. Also a large rain amount of 10.97in. I was able to edit all the wrong data except the "All time ini." file. How do I edit that? It still shows May 2013 as having 11.77in. of rain.
Thanks for any help....

[steve]

The monthly and annual totals are calculated from the daily totals in dayfile.txt. The current month has today's figure added to it. As the bad data from the weather station was from this morning, it's today's total that you need to correct. Have you done that? If so, I don't understand the problem. Have you tried to correct the all-time monthly record, but it keeps coming back again?

[bnwrx]

The monthly and annual totals are calculated from the daily totals in dayfile.txt. The current month has today's figure added to it. As the bad data from the weather station was from this morning, it's today's total that you need to correct. Have you done that? If so, I don't understand the problem. Have you tried to correct the all-time monthly record, but it keeps coming back again?

Thanks Steve, In the Cumulus "Today's Rain editor" it shows 0.000 for Today's rain total. So I did not edit that. For the monthly total for May 2013 it shows 0.80, which is correct. For the yearly total for rain it shows 0.81, which is correct.
But on these webpages: http://woodlandweather.org/thisyear.htm & http://woodlandweather.org/45betel.htm
the Cumulus webtag is reporting 11.77" for May 2013.

Some how I would like to edit that info, however I don't know what the "Real" monthly high rain total is because it was "erased" or "overwritten" by Cumulus when this erroneous rain total was entered.

[steve]

If you don't know the real value for the all-time record you can either:

1. Look in alltimelog.txt for the entry it created when the record was artificially broken, and use the alltime record editor to reset it manually, or
2. Use the all-time record editor in Cumulus to re-calculate the correct record from the dayfile.txt entries, or
3. Stop Cumulus and retrieve a backup of alltime.ini from the last backup before the problem occurred (a backup is taken each time Cumulus starts, and just after midnight)

Similarly for the monthly all-time records (the equivalent to the entry in alltimelog.txt is in the diags file in this case).

For "this year" and "this month" you can retrieve the backup copies of year.ini and month.ini

[bnwrx]

I think I've got it....
Closed Cumulus, used backup of "monthlyalltime.ini" to replace current file, then re-opened Cumulus. That seems to have worked....
The NOAA report page from betejuice is not reporting 5/27/2013 for some reason(it uses the dayfile.txt info I think...)
so that is my next project. It may only "populate" once a day though....
Still some work to do...
Thanks Steve, for pointing me in the right direction....