VWS Repeats a specific day in the history data

[lmolson]

I recently had some wires chewed though on a data line and had to diconnect the sensors, follow that episode
on 9/1/08 the daily.html continues to repeat 9/1/08 (reminds me of Ground Hogs day)  any ideas on what might
cause this or how I can fix it?

See below.

Date         Wind Dir         Hi           Lo   Wind Spd         Hi         Lo  Wind Gust       
9/21/2008         248        338          0          8        114          0         13
9/1/2008            0          338          0         11        114          0         14
9/22/2008         248        338          0          8        114          0         12
9/1/2008            0          338          0         11        114          0         14

Thank you in advance.

[Carson Weather]

114mph???
Are your numbers messed up anywhere else?

I would look at the daily.htx file and see if it is corrupted.

[lmolson]

Really windy on the mountain .......

Just kidding ...the 114 is because this is a remote cabin site that I have the computer auto reboot everyday at 9:00 am.  This is when the 114 data point happens.

[Weather Display]

maybe there is some sheduling software out there that can be set to send a flag to a program to exit (VWS), just before the pc is rebooted?

[Anthony]

Since you have given us little information to work with. I will atleast assume you are running VWS. It would be helpful to know what version. But one place you might want to start looking is your database file(s). You probably have atleast 1 corrupt record that needs to be deleted. You can edit the file with Excel. If you use Excel you must reformat column 1 to be a number with 0 (zero) decimal places. If you do not do this and you save the file it will be ruined and will be useless to VWS. Be sure to backup the file before you edit.

[NiceBill]

VWS Repeats a specific day in the history data

[lmolson]

Thanks for the information.  I am fairly new to the software so excuse my learning curve.  I am usign Ambient Software's Virtual Weather Station  V13.01.  I did look at the Heavy Weather History file and created a new one thinking that was the problem, but have not looked at the history file in VWS.  I will look at that and see if there is anything strange next time I am at the cabin.  Thanks again for your help.

Lance

[Anthony]

Keep us posted on what you find out.

[mackbig]

Lance, you could post your URL to this thread, or put your site in your profile, then we could take a peak at the rest of your data...
Andrew

[lmolson]

My website with the daily information is ..... http://www.kolobmountain.net/index_files/daily.htm

I primaryly use the web site to keep track of my cabin in the remote areas of Southern Utah.

I also have it uploading to wunderground which seems to report data just fine.  It's link is ...... 
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KUTKOLOB2

[mackbig]

Seeing the whole year sheds some new light, but even more questions.....

So the doubling began on Sept 1st.  After backing up your data, you might want to try looking at / editing your database and/or daily bin files.  Or perhaps if you dont mind just eliminating September bin files alltogether.

However, your data issues seem to be daily and since you starting back in 2007.
You have a daily 114 mile per hour wind reading which you noted already
Your barometer is a couple of hundred mb below where it probably should be, that probably means you are not using a sea level offset.  However you have quite a few zero's and a 9 inch reported back on march 15th.

The 114 mile per hour wind reading.  Is that a known issue with your type of station?  I think there are probably quite a few people that reboot each day...

There also seems to be an issue with your rain. WU shows about a half inch of rain each day, but nothing in the intervals during the day.  I thought 13" of rain was pretty high for south Utah.  Your total rain does not seem to be affected by this, depending on which entry you look at.

The repeating in your daily.htm file looks like it happened in April - May as well then stopped and reported normally June to end of August.  Prior to noting this, I thought your Sept 4th signing up and transmitting to WU might have something to do with the issues.

There are also some -20 temperature reported over the summer months...

I dont really know where you should start with trying to fix all the issues...

Andrew

[killwilly]

Hi Imoison.

I have had some strange daily high temperature readings for a couple of days over the past month. I will give you one guess what that figure was, yep....114is that strange, or is that strange? 

Alan.

[mackbig]

Alan,
I was noticing there were some similarities between yours and Lance's problems from your thread http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=2192.msg15723#msg15723

Well you can rule out stations, as I think Lance uses a Lacrosse since he mentions heavy weather, and you have a wmr100.
You can rule out VWS versions as you mentioned you are on a beta version of 14, and he is on 13.01...

So the 114 finding is very strange.  I wonder how many other non 24-7's out there have a 114 in their history... and why it would not happen for the occasional shut downs...

Andrew

[killwilly]

Hi Andrew.

Below is a copy of my monthly file to date. Sorry it's so long. It could mean something to someone.

                  MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY FOR 9/2008
                                        HEAT  COOL       
     MEAN                               DEG   DEG       WIND SPEED       DOM MEAN  MEAN
DAY  TEMP  HIGH   TIME     LOW   TIME   DAYS  DAYS RAIN AVG  HI  TIME    DIR BAROM HUM
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1    17.9  21.3    10:12  12.3    10:14    7    0  1.02  18  29    12:43 WSW1009.35   63
2    15.7  18.0    16:01  12.5    22:16    9    0  6.35  11  22     4:01 WSW999.74   70
3    14.8  17.9    14:31   9.6     6:46    8    0  0.00  17  30    12:45  SW998.21   69
4    14.2  15.9    12:56  12.5     3:46   11    0  1.02  11  21     1:01  SW996.96   86
5    15.1  15.9    12:08  12.6     1:16    8    0 14.73   5  12    12:46 ESE993.97   95
6    16.0  17.9    14:23  13.3     2:46   13    0  6.35  13  27    13:29  SW992.02   87
7    18.3 114.8   150:67  13.3    22:01    7    0  3.30   5 177   150:67 WNW997.34   77
8    15.6  18.7    15:01  13.3     1:46    8    0  0.00   7  13    17:16 WSW1010.60   85
9    16.8  19.3    13:05  12.2    10:29    7    0  3.05   7  15    12:31   S1007.17   87
10   17.0  20.6    15:31  11.3     6:31    9    0  0.00  14  30    12:49  SW1008.45   78
11   15.7  18.3     9:16  13.4    23:31    7    0  0.00  10  22    10:24  SW1004.41   94
12   14.0  15.2    17:01  12.1     2:46    7    0  2.29   1   9    15:31 WNW1010.42   96
13   14.5  20.6    16:01   9.5     3:16   12    0  0.00   2 859    12:28 WSW1017.66   91
14   16.8  19.4    15:16   9.8     2:16   22    0  0.00   5  13    11:52 ESE1023.25   50
15   16.1  18.4    12:22  10.2     6:31   10    0  0.00   4  11    10:36 ESE1024.22   56
16   13.2  16.8    13:46   9.8     2:31    3    0  0.00   2   9    13:31   E1022.49   67
17   14.6  18.2    15:01  11.1     2:16    8    0  0.00   3   9    16:31 ENE1021.87   69
18   13.5  20.0    13:46   8.5     6:46    3    0  0.00   2   7    12:16  NE1022.25   75
19   15.6  21.0    15:01   9.1     4:46    6    0  0.00   5   9    10:34  SW1025.30   56
20   17.4  21.1    16:01   8.2     6:46   13    0  1.02   7  13    13:34  SW1029.23   51
21   17.6 114.8    50:34   9.5    23:46    1    0  0.00   7 163    50:34   E996.19   69
22   15.1  17.3    11:44   9.5     0:01   15    0  0.00   7 229    14:52 NNE1023.47   83
23   14.5  68.0   140:63  11.8    19:46    2    0  0.00  14 177   140:63 NNE978.89   73
24   16.3  17.8    11:58  12.3    22:31   10    0  0.00  12  23    13:01  NE1024.35   81
25   17.0  18.4    13:16   9.5    23:16    8    0  0.00   8  57    10:32  NE1031.00   74
26   19.7  20.9    14:35   7.4     7:16    6    0  0.00   4  15     0:01 SSE1034.17   41
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOT  15.8 114.8  0/0/237   7.0  21/9/08  218    0 41.15   8 859  13/9/08  NE1011.14   75

HEAT BASE: 65.0
COOL BASE: 65.0


Alan.