Andrew Thanks for that excellent explanation. Now all I have to do is find out the Rain Year for New Zealand. James
On Friday, 15 May 2020 20:02:58 UTC+12, Andrew Milner wrote: > > countries often measure annual rainfall as being the 12 monthes from the > start of the rainy period (often september) rather than the annual calender > period from january 1. weewx caters for this by allowing the user to > define the month when the annual period should start, in this case the > reported annual rainfall will be for the current rain year rather than the > calendar year. If you want your rain year to start in september edit > weewx.cong rain_year_start to be 9 rather than the default 1 (=january), > and then you will see the two columns (year and rain year) will contain > different values, one will be measuring from start of calendar year and one > from start of rain year (as defined in weewx.conf). Rain year is thus the > timespan from from start of current rain year. > > > > On Friday, 15 May 2020 10:38:52 UTC+3, Banana Bob wrote: >> >> 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a9fde683-1369-4134-aa01-d82e8fb52fd9%40googlegroups.com.
