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#*Regardless of whether the AWS can calculate the highest and lowest values, Cumulus can (and for 9am to 9am if required),
#*it can combine the temperature it reads and the wind strength it reads to calculate current wind chill and also calculate the greatest wind chill in a day, month, year, or all-time,
#*it can also take into account humidity to calculate apparent temperature, Heat Index, Humidex, and
#*Cumulus can count the time when the temperature is above or below configurable temperatures:
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#**Taking into account the number of degrees away from the threshold the temperature is on each reading, Cumulus will calculate "[[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Heat_Degree_Days|Heat_Degree_Days]]" and "[[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Cold_Degree_Days|Cool_Degree_Days]]".
#*It can track the duration for each observed wind speed and calculate wind run for each day, it can report the day each month (or year, or all-time) with the highest daily wind run
#*Cumulus also tracks the actual rainfall over each 5 minutes and uses that to calculate a rain rate; it can report the highest hourly rainfall in a day, a month, a year or all-time; and it can report the wettest day in a month, year or all-time.
# Cumulus also includes a '''weather diary''' where you can record (in free text) any aspect of the weather for a day that your AWS does not capture, this diary includes ability to record for each day if snow is falling, if snow is lying, the snow depth, and from the last it can calculate a snow index for a month or for a winter.
# Cumulus also produces monthly climatological reports summarising the weather each day of that month, and a yearly climatological report summarising the weather each month of that year.
# Cumulus includes some templates that it processes to generate web pages, and provides hundreds of web tags that you can incorporate into templates of your own that Cumulus will process into scripts or web pages for you; there is a choice of how frequently this processing happens
#Cumulus also has the ability to launch external processes, at its "real-time" processing interval, its "normal updating" interval or as it is processing the daily "rollover" to a new meteorological day.
== Flavours ==
Two flavours of Cumulus are available for download [[Software|from this page]], another flavour was briefly available.
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