NOAA Report Missing Information

[Buford T. Justice]

I recently started having Cumulus do the NOAA Reports and uploading them to my website. I just noticed today that a few months have missing data. Attached is a report from October 2012. As you can see, Average Wind Speed just has ---- and no total. The Dominant Direction has --- for what I assume is to be where the dominant direction for the month is suppose to be.

I figured dayfile.txt was the source for these reports. Mine has these missing values in it. So I cannot figure out why they are not going to the NOAA Report.

Can somebody shed some light on this?

[beteljuice]

For some reason none of your 2012 reports have avg wind values, but 2013 (jan / feb) are OK ?

[Buford T. Justice]

Yes they are working just fine. They are attached.

[steve]

Most likely it encountered some kind of problem with your October log file (which is where the data for the average speed comes from; dayfile.txt has no average wind speed in it). If you attach that I'll take a look.

If you recreate the report, are there any errors in the diags file? It would also flash the error light.

[Buford T. Justice]

Most likely it encountered some kind of problem with your October log file (which is where the data for the average speed comes from; dayfile.txt has no average wind speed in it). If you attach that I'll take a look.

If you recreate the report, are there any errors in the diags file? It would also flash the error light.

Well that must be the problem because for whatever reason I no longer have the monthly data logs for last year

Recreating the reports doesn't make the error light flash on my end.

[steve]

Recreating the reports doesn't make the error light flash on my end.

No, it would only do that if it encountered a problem while actually processing a log file.

It seems odd that you have no logs at all for last year but logs for this year. Does your January log start on the 1st of the month at midnight? Did you do some archiving at the beginning of the year? I can't think of any way that Cumulus could delete a log file; the worst that you might expect to happen is that it became corrupted.

Looking back through your posts, you had a hard drive crash mid-January and restored some data from a backup. Perhaps your log files were lost and not restored at that point.

[Buford T. Justice]

January starts on the 1st and has all the data. Those log files probably got lost from that hard drive error I had. At least the NOAA Reports from last year have most of the data so not an entire loss.

[Buford T. Justice]

I lucked in! I had tried a different template that I was experimenting with and it actually had NOAA Reports I had apparently uploaded for last year. So now I have 10, 11, and 12 2012, but September is still lost. That's OK though. I can deal with that.

NOAA Reports link at bottom of the page:

http://tinyurl.com/WS62694