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 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