On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 5:33:47 PM UTC+1, Phil Owers wrote:
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> On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 5:08:13 PM UTC+1, Phil Owers wrote:
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>> On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 4:26:32 PM UTC+1, Phil Owers wrote:
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>>> On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 3:19:57 PM UTC+1, gjr80 wrote:
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>>>> In the daily summaries the 'max' field stores the max value of the obs 
>>>> for the day (the row of the daily summary table) concerned. So for point 
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>>>> time obs like temperature, humidity etc $year.outTemp.max will indeed 
>>>> give the max outTemp value seen since 1 January of the current year 
>>>> and $year.outTemp.maxtime will give the date-time it occurred. The 
>>>> same tag will certainly work with rain, ie $year.rain.max but what 
>>>> that tag is returning is not the max daily rainfall in the year to date 
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>>>> rather the max rainfall seen in an archive period in the year to date, you 
>>>> are treating rainfall more as a point in time observation. The 
>>>> $year.rain.sum tag will give you the total rainfall in the year to date so 
>>>> it does not help (it sums the daily summaries sum field). If you are 
>>>> looking for the max daily rainfall in the year you want to look at the max 
>>>> of the sum fields and to find the max value of the sum field you use the 
>>>> .maxsum aggregation type in your tag ie $year.rain.maxsum. Date-time 
>>>> wise $year.rain.maxtime may well provide the correct date-time that 
>>>> the highest daily rainfall occurred (chances are high that the highest 
>>>> archive period rainfall occurred on the day of highest total rainfall) but 
>>>> the corresponding 'time' aggregate for .maxsum is .maxsumtime ie 
>>>> $year.rain.maxsumtime.
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>>>> This may make a bit more sense if you refer to the Aggregation types 
>>>> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#aggregation_types> appendix in 
>>>> the Customization Guide.
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>>>> Assuming you are using the alltime period provided by the xstats 
>>>> example search list extension, the $alltime portion of the tag simply 
>>>> allows the underlying query to use the entire daily summary table rather 
>>>> than just the current year, month etc so $alltime.rain.maxsum and 
>>>> $alltime.rain.maxsumtime should give you the results you are after.
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>>>> Gary
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>>> Have  just compared the 2018 NOOA reports from weewx and weatherview. 
>> Now 99% was imported to weewx but the Temp and Wind are spot on with each 
>> other but the rain totals are about 25% lower in weewx compared 
>> to weatherview. for all 7 completed months, not sure why yet ???
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> And thanks for your help so far.
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>  Phil
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