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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Erase Account

Your rainfall reports account can now be completely erased. This may be useful where you no longer want to share your information online, or have moved your data to an new account name.

To erase your account information, select the "Erase Account" link, select the confirmation checkbox and hit the erase button.
This will permanently delete all of your rainfall data.

Please note: There is no way for us to recover your account or your rainfall data once you have performed this action. I recommend that you Export your rainfall data to CVS or to the spreadsheet before attempting to erase your account.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Quick Entry

New daily rainfall amounts can be created quickly from the main page. There is now a quick entry field that looks like this:


The date shown in the drop down list should be todays date. You can also choose any of the last 5 days to enter data - if you require an earlier date, then you will need to go to the normal rainfall entry screen.

If you enter a rainfall amount for a date that already has rainfall recorded, it will ignore your entry, leaving the current rainfall amount unchanged.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Displaying monthly averages on charts


The graphs are capable of displaying monthly average data. This can be seen as a green line on the charts, as shown in the example chart to the left.

The average data is statically defined for the specific rain gauge. It is not calculated from the data recorded for the gauge. This allows you to compare your actual rainfall to historical information obtained from another source, i.e. your local weather bureau.

To enter your historical averages, look for the "Monthly Averages" link from the main page stations listing details (available when you are logged in). The link to use should look like the the image to the right:


From there all you need to do is enter your rainfall amounts for each month of the year and hit the update button, as shown in the following example: