Cumulus works out rainfall each day based on a 'total' counter in the station. Yours presumably has 5.5mm in it. When Cumulus first starts, it is supposed to take note of the counter, and then start counting from there. Sometimes, as in your case, it doesn't do this, and decides to use the total counter as if it has all just fallen. I haven't been able to work out what causes this.tomcatuk wrote:Rainfall 5.5mm yet nothing shown on the mydel and there's been no rain.
You need to be running for a day until this will show anything sensible, you haven't had a daily minimum or maximum yet, so you can't have a highest minimum or lowest maximum.Highest mimimum -999f
Lowest Maximum 99f
This is the same problem as the total rain problem.Higest rain rate 65.8mm Hr
It's just a simple calculation based on dew point difference, it won't always be correct, or even know that there isn't any cloud.Cloud base 8000+ feet there's been no cloud all day
Hi steve, yes it should be inches, but just checked and as you say tis mm... hmmmm , maybe I clicked on it without noticing, what I will do... and thanks for the email by the way is tomorrow I'll uninstall and delete what ever is left behind and start again... and see where I go from there.steve wrote:I've received the data files, thanks. I'm replying here so others can see the response in case it is useful to them... and to reinforce the message if what I think has happened has indeed happened...
The log files show a rain total count in the station of 19. that 19*0.3 = 5.7mm. But the log files show this being stored as (approx) 0.2244, which looks suspiciously like 5.7mm in inches. If you then switched to mm, 5.7 - 0.244 = approx 5.5 mm, which is the value you say you are seeing. So:
Did you start off in inches and switch to millimetres?
Steve
Yes, but the counter was already at 19 - maybe during factory testing or something? Anyway, Cumulus started off remembering that figure as inches, and then switched to millimetres, so the rain magically appeared. Unfortunately I never designed Cumulus to allow switching of units, and bad things happen if they get switched. The almost legendary Cumulus 2 will allow unit switchingtomcatuk wrote:There should not have been any rainfall showing at all as its not rained...
moved the station to a new fixed location and cleared all the data and removed and re-installed the software today, see how it goes from here...
Just add it to your sig as an image, i.e.tomcatuk wrote:Even set up the php banner but not sure how to get it onto my sig page
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