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About rainfall Season

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WXStevo
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About rainfall Season

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i want to fix rainfall see how much rain i got this year i need someone help me fix this year saying 195.4mm but we got alot more than that other station Warwick got 854.5mm Jan to December help? :bash:
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Re: About rainfall Season

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Do you have your rainfall season start set to January?
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Re: About rainfall Season

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yes i did i put it on jan
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so how can i increase wind speed my station is 2.8m above ground
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Re: About rainfall Season

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WXStevo wrote:yes i did i put it on jan
And having changed it, did you restart Cumulus? If your annual total is still incorrect, you may have a problem in dayfile.txt - Cumulus will flash the error light if so, and clicking on that will show the problem, which you will need to correct with a (good) text editor with Cumulus stopped.
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WXStevo wrote:so how can i increase wind speed my station is 2.8m above ground
You can if you wish apply a multiplier for wind speed in the calibration settings. If your anemometer is not reasonably well exposed, then getting a valid reading will not be straightforward, or perhaps not even possible.
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Re: About rainfall Season

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if i put up 8m above ground? what happens?
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Re: About rainfall Season

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You're limited with a Vue because everything is together. You have to decide what measurements are most important to you, because there is no one height at which you can get optimal readings from all sensors. There was discussion about this in another thread not long ago.
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