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| The selections made on this Settings Page sub-section will place the appropriate content in the two parameters in the file
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==Optional Report Settings==
* File Section is [NOAA]
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!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
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| AutoCopy=0
| Release 3.12.0
| NOAA Reports Settings → FTP Options
| Auto Copy NOAA report files
| 0 (disable)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your report is to be copied to copy directory during the [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|End of Day process]]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for no copy action
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| AutoFTP=0
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → FTP Options
| Auto transfer NOAA report files
| 0 (disable)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) to enable the file transfer process you have defined for MX, to upload the file for you (at first update time after rollover has completed)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable any file transfer process
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| AutoSave=1
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings
| Create NOAA files after daily rollover
|0
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to use the (optional) Reports functionality
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX Reports functionality not required
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| City=
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Site Details
| City
| (empty)
| Enter here your hamlet, village, town, or city, name
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| CoolingThreshold=22
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Cooling threshold
| 65<sup>o</sup> F or 18.3<sup>o</sup>C
| [[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Cold_Degree_Days|Cold Degree Days]] are a measure of the need to cool the air to make it more comfortable, based on time above, and temperature difference above, a threshold temperature. An international standard says 22 <sup>o</sup>Celsius is a suitable threshold to ensure comfort. For historical consistency, the default used by MX is based on the threshold used when Steve Loft first implemented this in [[Reports_folder#A_brief_history_of_these_reports|Cumulus 2 (enhancement request 44)]], and that was done to match some early look up tables.
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| CopyDirectory=
| Release 3.12.0
| NOAA Reports Settings → Report Options
| Copy Directory
| (empty)
| The folder on the web server you host to which reports are to be copied
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| FTPDirectory=
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → FTP Options
| destination folder
| Depends on release:
* (3.1.0 to 3.11.4) blank
* (3.12.0 onwards) to match change in default web site script specification of '''Reports''' folder
| Specify the destination folder for file transfer to, on your FTP server
*Leave at default (for your release) and MX will work with the default web pages script supplied (at same release)
* Specify a folder relative to FTP root, and MX will upload reports to that folder instead (you are then responsible for writing any script on your web site to find each report and do any processing).
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| HeatingThreshold=15.5
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Heating threshold
| 65<sup>o</sup> F or 18.3<sup>o</sup>C
|[[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Heat_Degree_Days| Heating Degree Days]] are a measure of the need for heating, based on time below, and temperature difference below, a threshold temperature. An international standard says 15.5 <sup>o</sup>Celsius is a suitable threshold to ensure comfort. For historical consistency, the default used by MX is based on the threshold used when Steve Loft first implemented this in [[Reports_folder#A_brief_history_of_these_reports|Cumulus 2 (enhancement request 44)]], and that was done to match some early look up tables.
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| MaxTempComp1=22
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Max temp comparison 1
| (empty)
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to agree with the cooling degree day threshold in Celsius. Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
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| MaxTempComp2=0
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Max temp comparison 2
| (empty)
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the second comparison has been set to agree with feezing point (I’m using Celsius). Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
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| MinTempComp1=15.5
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Min temp comparison 1
| (empty)
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to agree with the heating degree day threshold in Celsius. Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
|-
| MinTempComp2=0
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Min temp comparison 2
| (empty)
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the second comparison has been set to agree with feezing point (I’m using Celsius). Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
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| MonthFileFormat='NOAAMO'MMyy'.txt'
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Output Files
| Monthly filename format
| 'NOAAMO'MMyy'.txt' (note quotes round '''NOAAMO''' and round '''.txt''')
| Here you specify the filename template for MX to use when reading, or writing, monthly reports
There is a prefix text in quotes,then comes a way to specify months (see [[Reports_folder#NOAA_style_Report_Naming]]), and finally comes the mandatory text extension. e.g. "NOAAMO"MMMyyyy".txt" would also be valid.
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| Name=Personal Weather Station
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Site Details
| Site Name
| (empty)
| What you would like to see in report title for your station name
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| NOAAUseUTF8=1
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Report Options
| Use UTF-8 encoding
| 1 (UTF-8)
| Please see [[Reports_folder#Encoding]]
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for default, modern files use UTF-8 encoding, this can display an extended range of characters, including the <sup>o</sup> degree symbol
* If unticked (0 appears in file), then iso-8859-1 encoding is used, this has a more restricted range of characters, and the <sup>o</sup> degree symbol is coded differently
|-
| RainComp1=0.5
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Rain comparison 1
| (empty)
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to the same as I have set else where as my significant rain threshold
|-
| RainComp2=
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Rain comparison 2
| (empty)
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold.
|-
| RainComp3=
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Thresholds
| Rain comparison 3
| (empty)
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold.
|-
| State=
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Site Details
| State
| (empty)
| Enter here your local authority area or region (state in USA)
|-
| UseDotDecimal=0
| Release 3.9.5 - b3100
| NOAA Reports Settings → Report Options
| Use a 'dot' decimal point
| 0 (disable)
| Formatting real numbers for when NOAA report parsed by a script
Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want NOAA reports to use decimal point even if locale says use decimal comma
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if NOAA reports use the integer/decimal separator specified by locale
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| UseMinMaxAvg=0
| Release 3.12.0
| NOAA Reports Settings → Report Options
| Use WHO average or Integrated average
| 0 (integrated average)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want temperature averages quoted in NOAA reports to use WHO approach: (min + max)/2
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want temperature averages quoted in NOAA reports to use integrated calculation: Sum of all temperature measurements divided by count of measurements
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| YearFileFormat='NOAAYR'yyyy'.txt’
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings → Output Files
| Yearly filename format
| 'NOAAYR'yyyy'.txt'
| Here you specify the filename template for MX to use when reading, or writing, yearly reports
There is a prefix text in quotes,then comes a way to specify months (see [[Reports_folder#NOAA_style_Report_Naming]]), and finally comes the mandatory text extension.
|-
|12hourformat=0
| ???
| NOAA Reports Settings → Output Files
|Time format
|0 (24 hour)
| How times are output on reports
* 24 Hour (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
* 12 Hour (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)
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===Normal Mean Temperatures===
* File Section is [NOAA]
* The parameters run from ‘’’NOAATempNormJan=’’’ to ‘’’NOAATempNormDec=’’
* There is one box labelled for each month on the settings screens
* All the defaults are (blank)
* What you enter is the mean temperature, long-term averages (say over 10 or 30 years if available) say is expected that month, often taken from local climate statistics, or your own past measurements
===Normal Precipitation===
* File Section is [NOAA]
Rainfall equivalents of mean temperature described above
==Optional Structured Query Language Settings==
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==Optional Third-party Upload Settings==
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