Rainfall since midnight

[richard_newberry]

My Rainfall since midnight showing 233.4 mm and todays rainfall is Rainfall Today 0.9 mm

Rainfall Last Hour 0.6 mm
Rainfall since midnight 233.4 mm
Amount of rain in the last 24 hours 0.9 mm
Rainfall This Month 0.9 mm
Rainfall This Year 0.9 mm

Seems like Rainfall since midnight is buggy?

Any help much appreciated.

[steve]

Please zip up the MXdiags folder and attach it.

[richard_newberry]

MXdiags as requested.

[richard_newberry]

By the looks of it Steve. Your Rainfall since midnight is also showing incorrect values.

Rainfall since midnight showing 0.6mm Rainfall Today is showing 0.0mm.

[steve]

Mine's correct; I had 0.6mm rain between midnight and my start of day at 0900.

[steve]

I've found the bug; it's some code that should be executed for Davis stations on 1st January, but it's being executed for all station types. I'll fix it - your figure will correct itself tomorrow.

[richard_newberry]

How will it do this mines a Fine Offset?

[steve]

It will correct itself because tomorrow isn't the 1st January, so it won't execute the code.

Note also that 'rain since midnight' is redundant if your start of day is midnight - you may just as well use 'rain today'.

[richard_newberry]

What do I put in it's place to make 6 rows, 5 rows will look abit odd.

Is Amount of rain in the last 24 hours since as Rainfall Today?

[richard_newberry]

in thismonth I got Highest Daily Rainfall 233.1 mm 01 January
in this year I got Highest Daily Rainfall 233.1 mm 01 January
Highest Monthly Rainfall 233.1 mm January
In Monthly records I got Highest Daily Rainfall 233.1 mm on 01 January 2016
Highest Monthly Rainfall 233.1 mm January 2016

Will these all go by tomorrow Steve?

[richard_newberry]

My rainfall rate is showing 3.6 mm/hr but havent had that per hour only 0.3mm from what Rain Last Hour says.

[steve]

That's rather more serious and is a different problem. You will have to correct those yourself by editing the ini files. You can use the backup folders to find the alltime and monthly record figures, the ones for this month and this year are just today's figure.

Something went wrong with the start of day rain counter when it started up at 1721, I don't know whether this is because it apparently wasn't closed cleanly on the previous run. You clearly noticed a problem and corrected today's rainfall. I don't have time to look at this now to see if it's a problem in MX or because of that closedown, I'll look tomorrow. Could you attach your January log file in the meanwhile, please?

[steve]

My rainfall rate is showing 3.6 mm/hr but havent had that per hour only 0.3mm from what Rain Last Hour says.

Rainfall rate is calculated over the previous 5 minutes.

[richard_newberry]

Jan16log.txt as requested.

[steve]

It looks like today.ini was corrupted due to MX not being closed down cleanly, so the start of day rain counter was taken as zero. You need to make sure it's stopping correctly when you do the CTRL-C.