Annual Rainfall not correct

[RobertGrif]

Hi Wim,

PWS_Dashboard at Carbondale, CO USA (el. 6191 ft.)

Only 1 problem left, for now. Here is the website as of today:

I live in the Rocky Mountains which is a high desert. This number is impossible. I calculate the correct number to be roughly 9.35 inches.

@pwsdashboard

Go to your debug dashboard: Module test PWS_Dashboard
Bottom row has three buttons:
Left one “Show contents” displays the data you read back from WU after your WeatherCat weather-program uploaded the data. The second button shows which data-items we use. The third button shows all data we minimally need.

Here is what I found:
First, this is from the first List Contents Button: ( _my_settings/history.txt)

The Show Station Values button didn’t reveal anything unexpected.

The Live Date Values showed:

I tried the Load Files button at the bottom of the Debug Console and it showed:

Again, the Annual Rainfall should be about 9.35 inches.

How do I fix this?

Many thanks for your knowledge and patience!!! And my offer to donate still stands.
Bob

[pwsdashboard]

@RobertGrif

Again, the Annual Rainfall should be about 9.35 inches.

How do I fix this?

The anual rainfall is calculated by the cron-job and stored in the history file.

To modify that field you run run in your browser

https://www.soprisviewweather.com/PWS_hist_update.php?pw=_easyweatherpassword_

With a correct easyweathersetup password tall current history data is shown and you can change the contents of the fields.

Succes,
Wim

[RobertGrif]

SUCCESS!

Thank you, Wim! Let me know how I can help support you.
Bob

[bitsostring]

@RobertGrif

SUCCESS!

Thank you, Wim!

OK, you have corrected annual rainfall by manually changing the history that you got from WU.

So how/why did WU get it so spectacularly wrong in the first place?

[RobertGrif]

@bitsostring

So how/why did WU get it so spectacularly wrong in the first place?

I’m really not sure! There are no yearly totals displayed on WU. Just daily and monthly. I failed to see a yearly total in the WU downloads to PWS_Dashboard

Originally, after I updated, it was only off a a couple hundred inches. I tried running PWS_history_recreate.php. I ran it several times and the Annual Rainfall amount climbed every time. So, that may be a clue.

Wim said that: “All math is done in PWS_Dashboard.” So I’m assuming that the error is there. Not something that is wrong with PWS_Dashboard but from my ham handed attempts to fix it.

Always learning …

Thanks!
Bob

[administrator]

@RobertGrif

it was only off a couple hundred inches

Only That’s about 5 times our annual rainfall as an error.

[bitsostring]

@RobertGrif

I’m really not sure! There are no yearly totals displayed on WU.

I have to say this is one of the reasons I stopped using cron/history/status: WU holds some phantom numbers that cannot be corrected. Every time an error crept in from my end and I tried to correct it, WU would reproduce its rubbish - maybe because I was doing something wrong, who knows - and I had to go back and correct that, too.

Maybe I was running PWS_history_recreate.php and I should have been running update?

But I don’t think OP has the luxury of that choice. . .

[RobertGrif]

@administrator

Only That’s about 5 times our annual rainfall as an error.

Yeah, it eventually got up to nearly 460 inches. We would be underwater!

Thanks to Wim and Bits for straightening me out!

Bob

[RobertGrif]

@bitsostring

I have to say this is one of the reasons I stopped using cron/history/status: WU holds some phantom numbers that cannot be corrected.

Let’s see what happens tonight after the cron job rolls over.

@bitsostring

Maybe I was running PWS_history_recreate.php and I should have been running update?

The update worked great for me … so far.

Bob