[Babase] Rain units and other weather leftovers

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Mar 27 16:39:00 EDT 2009


On 03/27/2009 02:26:50 PM, kfenn wrote:
> Karl ,
> Please my replies below.
> Also, we found a few records in your daytime.txt file where the date  
> disappeared as part of programming functions (i've got the date in my  
> excel sheet).  This seems to occur when we have no min max temp  
> readings but there is a precip reading.  See 5/11/88 and 7/4/89 for  
> example.

Thanks.  I'll see about fixing that.

>> 
> Jeanne looked at some of the high precip measures from the file you  
> sent and they were consistent with the hard data so it doesn't appear  
> that there are any corrections to make.  Yes, they are supposed to be  
> in millimeters.
> The value of 84 was after 12 days of missed readings (3/1/89).  It's  
> not noted in the comments, but I'm sure there are a lot of days like  
> that.  If an observer didn't write it into the comments, well it  
> wouldn't have been entered as a comment.  The span tables are  
> supposed to address that, right?

Right.  (The RAINGAUGES.RGspan and EstRGspan columns.)


> I think we need to have you do programmer magic to slam the date and  
> time together during the upload.  I didn't see an easy way to do this  
> in excel and my experience is that excel can be quirky with date   
> manipulations (switching from english to america); I would feel safer  
> if you programmed it.

Ok. See previous email.  I will meditate on a name too.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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