Dayfile.txt

Cumulus maintains a daily file of the highs and lows of each day, as well as a few other nugets of information. The data contained in the file is used to build the graphs.

The file is called dayfile.txt can viewed in a text editor or imported into various database systems or spreadsheets to manipulate as you wish.

Tip -- take a copy of the file to work on it elsewhere.

Format of the file

• Date in the form dd/mm/yy
• Highest wind gust,
• Bearing of highest wind gust
• Time of highest wind gust
• Minimum temperature
• Time of minimum temperature
• Maximum temperature
• Time of maximum temperature
• Minimum sea level pressure
• Time of minimum pressure
• Maximum sea level pressure
• Time of maximum pressure
• Maximum rainfall rate
• Time of maximum rainfall rate
• Total rainfall for the day
• Average temperature for the day
• Total wind run

Example of the file

An extract of a few lines of the dayfile.txt

02/09/08,2.2,135,22:18,8.9,21:29,9.2,23:33,990.3,22:19,990.8,22:42,0.0,00:00,2.9,9.0,0.0 03/09/08,2.2,135,22:18,8.9,21:29,9.2,23:33,990.3,22:19,990.8,22:42,0.0,00:00,0.0,9.0,0.0 04/09/08,6.9,180,10:37,5.9,03:50,16.6,12:32,990.3,00:23,997.3,23:55,3.9,16:34,4.2,9.7,6.4