Sudden high rain readings

[Lester]

Hello forum

Last night just before a lively cold front went through my rain rate/totals went crazy and a error log report popped up, so I restarted cumulus, and have since tried to edit the data ‘not entirely successfully’ quite new to this, and so still stumbling along trying to understand how it all works
Have attached bugreport etc for those with more brains than me to look at.
I have had one or two glitches since I set up my station, but I think most have been ‘finger problems’

All the WH1081 instruments are on a mast, and are above the house roof, except the rain gauge which is firmly anchored to a flat roof.

Love Cumulus! And thanks Daj for the webpage help and hosting, you made the whole procedure totally painless for a dummy, wife now thinks I’m a right geek, especially when I pop up the real time wind gauges on the telly and exclaim “Blimey look at that last gust”
anyway must be off, now where did I put my anorak ?!!!!!

Lester

[steve]

The bug report is from a failure to write to a file (probably dayfile.txt) because something else has the file open, probably caused by antivirus or similar. I get reports like this from time to time, and I've never been able to find anything in Cumulus that could be the cause.

It looks like you've done a reasonable job of editing the data files, the only problem I can see is in nov09log.txt:

24/11/09,22:40,13.7,77,9.7,19.7,34.9,190,0.0,0.9,992.6,287.1,25.5,38,32.0,13.7,13.7
24/11/09,23:00,13.9,76,9.7,0.7,26.6,185,0.0,0.9,992.2,127.2,25.3,38,18.3,13.9,13.9
24/11/09,23:20,13.8,78,10.0,9.8,34.9,204,0.0,0.9,991.9,287.1,25.1,39,25.9,13.8,13.8

In that middle line, the total rainfall counter from the station has gone down from the previous 287.1 to 127.2, then back up again to 287.1, so you just need to change that 127.2 to 287.1.

Those yesterday figures come from today.ini (yesterday's total) and yesterday.ini (yesterday's high rate), and are transient. You can either edit those files to correct the values, or just wait until tomorrow when they should disappear without trace.

[Lester]

Thanks Steve

Support & advice second to none as usual

Lester