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* Each time Cumulus reads records from the weather station it applies any change to the 'total rain count' against today's total in its memory.
* The today's total so far at each reading time is also added to the 'recent tag' array allowing total values for the day-so-far at one minute intervals for up to a week ago to be added as web tags to a web template.
* The rainfall totals that Cumulus uses when processing 'thismonthT.htm' and 'thisyearT.htm' web templates, and for displaying
**Important, for the <#ryear> web tag Cumulus reads the dayfile for the rainfall season starting with the month set on the station settings screen and stored as the value for attribute ''RainSeasonStart'' in [[Cumulus.ini#Section:_Station]].
**If you have set a 'year to date' value
**There is no corresponding setting for calculating the total for the first 'this month' of Cumulus operation.
*Note that you need to stop and then restart Cumulus to update
* The rainfall totals shown on the ''This period'', ''This month'', and ''This year'' screens within the '''View''' menu are generated by adding up the daily rainfall totals found in [[dayfile.txt]] for the selected period. So any rainfall for the current (meteorological) day is excluded as the latest dayfile.txt row is for yesterday. Totals are recalculated when you press the ''Update display'' button. Important note: The view menu 'This year' screen always calculates the total for a selected calendar year starting in January.
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