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Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 6:24 pm
by Stig
Hi Steve

my total rainfall this year shows 28490 mm :lol: and is still increasing, I have read the Wiki page 2.10 on how to correct false
figures, but my dayfile.txt does not show any high rain values (my weather underground history shows 9,1 mm this year) can you please inform me what to do


regards

Stig

www.Hareskovvejr.dk

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 6:35 pm
by steve
Your dayfile.txt has commas as both decimals and separators. Your today.ini is using decimal points, so your dayfile.txt should be the same. I have no idea how Cumulus could do that - I assume you have been editing the file and somehow converted all of the decimal points into commas?

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 8:18 pm
by Stig
thank you for your quick reply, I don“t remember that I have touched the dayfile.txt since I started Cumulus in Nowember last year:oops: If I delete the dayfile.txt , will Cumulus then create a new file,




Stig

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 8:30 pm
by steve
Stig wrote:If I delete the dayfile.txt , will Cumulus then create a new file
No.

In your system settings, what are your decimal symbol and list separator set to?

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 10:07 pm
by Stig
forgive me my ignorance, but where can I find this information, I have not been able to find it in
the control panel-system box.




Stig

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 10:11 pm
by steve
In the control panel, click on 'Region and language', then on the Format tab, click on 'additional settings'. See what character is in 'decimal symbol' and 'list separator'. Could you attach your December monthly log file, please, so I can have a look at it?

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 10:17 pm
by steve
I meant February, actually... how time flies...

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 10:28 pm
by Stig
decimal symbol= ,

list separator= .




Stig

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010 10:44 pm
by steve
Are you sure that list separator isn't a comma too? That's what it's using. The "normal" list separator when you have a comma for a decimal separator is a semicolon.

When you first started running Cumulus, your decimal separator was a full stop and your list separator was a comma, but within a few minutes, the decimal separator changed to a comma and the list separator stayed the same:

05/12/09,10:40,5.0,87,3.0,2.4,4.3,168,0.0,0.0,1007.0,490.0,20.4,42,2.2,5.0,5.0
05/12/09,10:50,5.0,87,3.0,3.7,4.9,165,0.0,0.0,1007.0,490.0,20.4,42,3.9,0.0,5.0
05-12-09,11:00,5,1,86,3,0,3,2,5,5,165,0,0,0,0,1007,0,490,0,20,4,42,2,6,3,0,5,1
05-12-09,11:10,5,1,87,3,0,3,4,4,7,166,0,0,0,0,1007,0,490,0,20,4,42,1,8,5,0,5,1

I'm afraid all of your data is the same after that; the decimals are commas and the separators are commas, so the data is unreadable. Unless you want to go to the bother of editing it all, and I can't think of an automatic way, I suggest you first change your list separator to a semicolon, then delete all of your data and start again :(

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Tue 02 Feb 2010 10:21 am
by Stig
my decimal symbol is now = ,
my digit grouping symbol = .
and my list separator = ;

I have deleted all data, and my rain this year shows 0 mm, so I have to wait to midnight to see if the new dayfile.txt looks
right.

thanks a lot :D :clap:


Stig

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Tue 02 Feb 2010 10:47 am
by steve
Stig wrote:my decimal symbol is now = ,
my digit grouping symbol = .
and my list separator = ;
Looks good to me :)
so I have to wait to midnight to see if the new dayfile.txt looks right.
You could have a look in Feb10log.txt now, to see if that's working OK.

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Tue 02 Feb 2010 12:58 pm
by Stig
feb10log.txt looks fine, so hopefully it will last :D

02/02/10,12:40,-1.5,85,-3.7,3.5,5.7,190,0.0,0.0,995.0,530.0,19.9,33,3.7,-5.7,-1.5
02/02/10,12:50,-1.5,85,-3.7,3.8,7.6,192,0.0,0.0,995.0,530.0,19.9,33,2.6,-6.0,-1.5
02/02/10,13:00,-1.5,86,-3.5,3.7,7.8,190,0.0,0.0,995.0,530.0,19.9,33,6.3,-5.9,-1.5
02/02/10,13:10,-1.5,87,-3.4,4.0,7.6,189,0.0,0.0,994.0,530.0,19.9,33,3.6,-6.1,-1.5
02/02/10,13:20,-1.4,88,-3.1,4.2,6.5,188,0.0,0.0,994.0,530.0,19.8,33,4.5,-6.1,-1.4
02/02/10,13:30,-1.4,89,-3.0,3.9,6.5,179,0.0,0.0,994.0,530.0,19.8,33,3.9,-5.9,-1.4
02/02/10,13:40,-1.5,89,-3.1,4.8,8.2,181,0.0,0.0,993.0,530.0,19.8,33,4.9,-6.7,-1.5
02/02/10,13:50,-1.6,90,-3.0,5.2,7.8,185,0.0,0.0,993.0,530.0,19.8,33,3.4,-7.0,-1.6

Stig

www.Hareskovvejr.dk

Re: Rainfall This Year

Posted: Tue 02 Feb 2010 1:39 pm
by steve
That doesn't match what you said above. Your decimal separator is '.' and your list separator is ','. But that combination is fine.