Andrew
Thanks very much for your help
What does the term Rain Year mean?
James

On Friday, 15 May 2020 18:35:05 UTC+12, Andrew Milner wrote:
>
> rain_year_start is a date set in weewx.conf - in the station_url section, 
> and should be set to the month in which the rain year starts.
>
> the rain year is then the period from rain year start to current date
>
> so yes, i think you are misreading the column - the column represents a 
> time period
>
>
>
> On Friday, 15 May 2020 09:24:27 UTC+3, Banana Bob wrote:
>>
>> Sorry but maybe I am reading this page incorrectly. I was assuming that 
>> Rain Year was a column for how much Rain fell in the year. Does it have 
>> another meaning? 
>>
>> On Friday, 15 May 2020 18:18:10 UTC+12, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh - I see what you mean - the year column and the rain year column are 
>>> showing same values for ALL readings.
>>>
>>> Doesn't that just imply that your rain year start is set to start 
>>> January 1st rather than to some date in 2019??
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, 15 May 2020 09:06:19 UTC+3, Banana Bob wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If you right click on the screenshot and select view image you will get 
>>>> a large version. It will show exactly what I said that the last row 
>>>> contains the same data as the previous row.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 15 May 2020 18:01:39 UTC+12, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> very hard to say from the screenshot!!  Do you have any rain recorded 
>>>>> for between september 2019 and january 2020 which you believe should be 
>>>>> added to the rain year total??
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, 15 May 2020 08:49:14 UTC+3, Banana Bob wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [image: Screenshot from 2020-05-15 17-46-11.png]
>>>>>> Please look at the screenshot and notice that the Year and the Rain 
>>>>>> Year columns give the same data. I suspect that this is not correct. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>

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