Dayfile.txt

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

The file is called dayfile.txt which can be 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
• Highest Average Wind Speed
• Time of Highest Avg. Wind speed
• Lowest humidity
• Time of lowest humidity
• Highest humidity
• Time of highest humidity
• Total evapotranspiration
• Total hours of sunshine
• High heat index
• Time of high heat index
• High apparent temperature
• Time of high apparent temperature
• Low apparent temperature
• Time of low apparent temperature
• High hourly rain
• Time of high hourly rain
• Low wind chill
• Time of low wind chill

The last 16 entries were added in version 1.9.1

Example of the file

An extract of a few lines of the dayfile.txt

25/01/10,11.0,270,22:56,-1.3,18:59,5.3,11:14,1032.7,00:04,1038.6,23:55,3.6,06:39,0.3,1.6,39.6,5.6,23:52

26/01/10,14.5,248,14:46,1.5,00:00,6.7,14:19,1034.5,23:59,1039.3,10:16,0.0,00:00,0.0,3.8,116.5,11.1,23:26

27/01/10,25.5,315,02:56,2.6,23:07,8.5,04:42,1020.0,23:58,1034.6,00:00,3.6,14:30,2.4,5.8,112.4,10.7,04:15

28/01/10,7.2,315,01:59,1.7,22:54,4.6,17:09,998.2,23:34,1020.3,00:01,3.6,02:46,9.0,2.9,41.6,7.1,02:09

29/01/10,9.1,248,01:14,-2.1,17:43,1.7,00:00,997.1,16:15,999.3,23:54,3.6,00:31,0.3,-0.1,7.9,5.0,01:21