Rainfall - numbers don't add up?

[ubejani]

Not sure how to interpret this? Yesterday's rain was 1.2mm, last 24 hrs was 0.6mm yet today's rain is 34.5mm. Doesn't make sense, a bug perhaps?

[steve]

If you zip up the diags folder and attach it, I'll take a look. The explanation may just be that the rain counter supplied by your station has been doing odd things - quite likely if an "Orion" is a Fine Offset model.

[ubejani]

Attached

[steve]

You are allowing your PC to go into standby while Cumulus is running. So you have large gaps in your data, and as it is suspended overnight in particular, it cannot keep track of daily totals etc.

[ubejani]

Thanks, don't want to leave the PC on 24 hrs so will live with it.

Cheers

[vaggos]

It's not because you shut your pc.
As Steve told you, because you allow your PC to go into standby while Cumulus is running.
You can change it as i remember well from usb settings and power settings.

[RayProudfoot]

My 7 year-old Samsung NC10 netbook has run more or less continuously since I started recording weather back in April 2009.

The key is to allow the screen to switch off when it's closed. Power use is then a few watts. You won't even notice on your electricity bill even if you use a desktop.

Whilst it might be the middle of the night for you visitors from other parts of the world might be curious about your current weather. Good enough reason to make data available 24 hours a day.

[duke]

I do get somewhat bemused by operators that upload data to a website, then shutdown over night like weather does not occur I know some that do the same with CCTV.............