Cumulus Support

While I was away last week, my rain gauge sensor lost contact with my main console. My rain gauge measured 1.26 in of rain and I know this occurred between Tues 11/16 and Thurs 11/18. When my sensor reconnected with my console, it showed in Cumulus that the 1.26 in of rain happened today.

I know from the Wiki how to delete today's false rain.

However, I looked at a neighboring station and determined totals for the following days: 11/16 - .40 in, 11/17 - .76 in, and 11/18 - .10 in. How do I add these rain amounts to the correct days so my daily, monthly, and annual totals and graphs all remain correct?

Thanks,
J.J.

I'm a little embarrased to admit that I went up onto my roof with a glass of water an poured it in slowly until I reached the desired amount. Just don't do it too fast or you'll set a new rainfall rate record! I had a pine needle stuck down my gauge which caused about 10% to bypass the bucket, so I didn't have to make up much.

I'm sure there's going to be a much easier way to do it though.

poured it in slowly until I reached the desired amount

The difference here is that the rain has been recorded, it just needs redistributing.

Just edit the totals in dayfile.txt. Optionally edit the 'total so far' figures in Nov10log.txt, but you don't really have sufficient information to do that accurately.

hills wrote:I'm a little embarrased to admit that I went up onto my roof with a glass of water an poured it in slowly

Brilliant, I love it -- that made me laugh out loud

Or you could have a bastard of a neighbour renting like I did a few years ago - came home one day to find nearly 200mm of rain had fallen on a bright, hot, totally sunny day!

Couldn;t figure it out until I checked my security camera vision - the absolute p$%^k had turned his hose on the rain gauge - so I obviously had a massive downpur in just a few minutes....

Fortunately they moved out not long after this....

They knew what the effect of their actions would be, sods.