I've maintained my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 weather station at my current location since December 2014, and have been using WeatherLink the whole time. I do data downloads manually, usually once or twice a day. Tonight, at 11:36 PM PST (February 1st), I did my usual download, which went smoothly. All of the data for the day is correctly represented in the plot. However, when I went to the NOAA Month Summary for what was supposed to be February 2019 - instead, the month summary for January 2019 came up. I then went to the "Browse the station data" window, and it does not show any data past 12:00 AM February 1st, 2019. Beyond that is a string of
[Could not get record 2095402] errors. This is really odd in that the data for February 1st (through the download I did at 11:36 PM)
does show up in the plot and yearly rainfall windows (0.01" fell here on the 1st).
I tried to do another data download, and it keeps trying to download 513 pages (100%) when it should obviously be only a few pages (maybe 1%) at this point. The date and time are correct on the console, it still shows the current data with no problems, and the date and time are the same on my PC. I went into my WeatherLink folder and found a strange .wlk file named 2119-12.wlk (when it should instead be 2019-02.wlk). I exited WeatherLink, deleted that file, restarted, and attempted to download the data again. Still 513 pages (100%). I'm afraid to download the 513 pages in fear that it will overwrite my recent data or mess other stuff up somehow. I did some Googleing and found this forum, several threads from users with similar problems that were instructed to delete the files "DataLists.dat" and "DataSets.dat". So I did that, restarted, etc. Still 513 pages (100%).
I made sure there were no connectivity issues with the USB or data logger. This seems to be a software glitch related to the date rolling over from 01/31/19 to 02/01/19, but I'm at a loss for how to fix it. I'd like to fix this very soon before recent data becomes overwritten due to full data packets. I live in Southern California and we're due for a major storm this weekend, which I want fully documented in my data.
Some images:
Data I downloaded from February 1st still shown in Plot and Yearly Rainfall but nowhere else:
Another thing - I opened the Log to see if I could find anything helpful in there. At 11:36 PM, when I did my download, this bizarre text shows up in the log for that time. I have never seen it before, it has never happened in the log up to this point, I have no idea what it means, and I found nothing on the internet about it: