.2mm daily rainfall on July 17th incorrect

[rstefani]

Where I live we are heading towards a streak of record-breaking rain-free days dating back to June 27th but for some reason (bird perhaps) on July 17th my weather station is showing .2mm of precip. I would like to correct this to 0.00 mm (there was no rain at all that day with nothing but clear skies) in order to include the number of rain-free days to June 27th, not July 17th, and keep on track towards a new record. Can this be manually accomplished?
Thanks!

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[steve]

Use the dayfile.txt editor in Cumulus to set the total for that day to zero.

Stop Cumulus and edit today.ini; change the following entries:

LastTip=
ConsecutiveDryDays=

Note that the latter figure does not include today.

You can look in one of the backup folders from before July 17th to find the old 'LastTip' timestamp if you don't know what it is.

Then start Cumulus again.

[rstefani]

Use the dayfile.txt editor in Cumulus to set the total for that day to zero.

Stop Cumulus and edit today.ini; change the following entries:

LastTip=
ConsecutiveDryDays=

Note that the latter figure does not include today.

You can look in one of the backup folders from before July 17th to find the old 'LastTip' timestamp if you don't know what it is.

Then start Cumulus again.

Thanks Steve! Your advice solved the problem...as the "number of days without rain" has become a record since my station went up in 1999 I had to manually edit the monthy, yearly and alltime ini files as well!
Rob

[steve]

as the "number of days without rain" has become a record since my station went up in 1999 I had to manually edit the monthy, yearly and alltime ini files as well!
Rob

I didn't bother mentioning those, as the records should have been updated automatically at the end of the day anyway.