Today
The readings returned representing Today are based on the settings of your rollover time. Please refer to the main CumulusMX Wiki for further details. Cumulus allows some control over the time that “Today” begins:
You can define the log rollovertime. Choose between 9am or midnight. For the weather diary feature SnowDepthHour The default SnowDepthHour is 8 Readings from your weather station are assigned to the “Today” based on 3 options for Meteorological day starting at 9:00 am, based on winter time, so switching to 10:00 during Daylight Saving (summer) time, or starting at 9:00 am, all year round, or aligned with calendar days, so today starts at midnight The independence of the start time for weather diary and weather station related web tags needs to be remembered when labelling web tags from the two tables below. It was assumed that you would use 9 a.m. as start time for both, but not care when snow fell, as it often has in the UK, after Summer Time has begun, so weather station tags were by default reporting from 10 a.m. local time and snow as at 9 a.m. In MX, if you choose 9 a.m. (optionally 10 a.m. in summer) for rollover, so all the standard derivative are assigned to the date the meteorological day starts as Today, but the sunshine hours recorded against today will be from midnight on the said date. Weather Diary This first table lists all the web tags available for reporting what is recorded in the weather diary. Just to be clear, the web tags shown below, will report data for previous day if the current time is before the snow depth hour setting, and report data for the current day if the current time matches the snow depth hour or is later. Webtag name Function <#Option_showSnow> Displays the value of the Display Options⇒General Options⇒Snowfall: this option enabled will display snowfall data from the Weather Diary on the default web site <#snowdepth> Meteorologists report snow depth in cm, so this is default unit for Cumulus. Snowdepth should include the snow24h amount so automatic measurement (by laser) always is the correct amount! If there is no entry in Weather Diary for the day explained above, reports zero. Input is to 2 decimal places to accommodate inches as unit (see station settings⇒ unit settings in CMX). <#snowcomment> Displays the comment field of the weather diary. <#snow24hr> Fresh snow which fell the past 24 hrs. If this amount is subtracted from snowdepth you find the melt/compression of the previous snow. <#DiaryThunder> <#DiaryHail> <#DiaryFog> <#DiaryGales> These tags return “true”, “false”, or “-” if no diary entry exists. This null value can be overridden with the usual nv= parameter. These tags take an optional parameter of the date to be queried: date=YYYY-MM-DD <#SnowAccumSeason> queries the Weather Diary for the current snow season total snow fall. The tag takes an optional parameter `y=YYYY` which you can use to specify the snow season starting year for which you want the total. Today.ini These tag names relate to the current Meteorological day and they are populated from information held in today.ini; Where a tag name reports a value specific to a past time in today-so-far, there will also be a tag name that can give the time of day, shown in same row of table below. For those that cover whole day so far, the final column contains “n/a”.
Inconsistencies
There is some inconsistency in naming with “T” not included in all tag names, “T” is used in conjunction with “H” or “L” as a suffix for extreme values/time-stamps, but a prefix “T” can identify today's value and also signify a time-stamp.
| Webtag name | Function | Time Webtag name |
|---|---|---|
| Temperature & Humidity | ||
| <#tempTH> | Highest temperature | <#TtempTH> |
| <#tempTL> | Lowest temperature | <#TtempTL> |
| <#avgtemp> | The average temperature so far. Note | |
| <#temprange> | The temperature range. Note | |
| <#tempMidnightTH> | Highest temperature since midnight | <#TtempMidnightTH> |
| <#tempMidnightTL> | Lowest temperature since midnight | <#TtempMidnightTL> |
| <#tempMidnightRangeT> | The temperature range (max - min) so far from midnight. | |
| <#temp9amTH> | Highest temperature since 9am (rollover) | <#Ttemp9amTH> |
| <#temp9amTL> | Lowest temperature since 9am (rollover) | <#Ttemp9amTL> |
| <#temp9amRangeT> | The temperature range (max - min) so far from 9am. | |
| <#apptempTH> | Highest apparent temperature | <#TapptempTH> |
| <#apptempTL> | Lowest apparent temperature | <#TapptempTL> |
| <#feelslikeTH> | Highest feels like temperature | <#TfeelslikeTH> |
| <#feelslikeTL> | Lowest feels like temperature | <#TfeelslikeTL> |
| <#humidexTH> | Highest Canadian Humidity Index | <#ThumidexTH> |
| <#heatindexTH> | Highest heat index | <#TheatindexTH> |
| <#wchillTL> | Greatest wind chill | <#TwchillTL> |
| <#dewpointTH> | Highest dew point | <#TdewpointTH> |
| <#dewpointTL> | Lowest dew point | <#TdewpointTL> |
| <#humTH> | Highest humidity | <#ThumTH> |
| <#humTL> | Lowest humidity | <#ThumTL> |
| Precipitation (Rainfall)) | ||
| <#rfall> | Total rainfall for today so far. | |
| <#rrateTM> | Maximum rain rate | <#TrrateTM> |
| <#hourlyrainTH> | Highest hourly rain | <#ThourlyrainTH> |
| <#rain24hourTH> | Highest rain for 24 hours | <#Train24hourTH> |
| <#RG11RainToday> | If you have an RG-11 rain sensor configured in “Tipping Bucket” mode, this gives the rain total so far according to the sensor | |
| Pressure | ||
| <#pressTH> | Highest pressure reading | <#TpressTH> |
| <#pressTL> | Lowest pressure reading | <#TpressTL> |
| Winds | ||
| <#windTM> | Maximum (average) wind speed | <#TwindTM> |
| <#wgustTM> | Maximum wind gust | <#TwgustTM> |
| <#bearingTM> | The wind bearing at the time of the maximum gust (<#wgustTM>) in degrees | <#TwgustTM> |
| <#directionTM> | The wind bearing at the time of the maximum gust (<#wgustTM>) as a compass point (e.g. “NNE”) | <#TwgustTM> |
| <#Tbeaufort> | Highest wind speed, expressed in the Beaufort scale. Note | |
| <#Tbeaufortnumber> | Highest wind speed on the Beaufort scale, without a leading “F”, e.g. “6”. Note | |
| <#windrun> | The total wind run so far. | |
| <#windAvg> | The wind run divided by time passed since rollover to express it as an average wind speed | |
| <#domwindbearing> | The dominant wind direction in degrees | |
| <#domwinddir> | The dominant wind direction as a compass point | |
| <#Tbeaudesc> | Beaufort 'description' for today's high wind speed | |
| Miscellaneous | ||
| <#ET> | Evapotranspiration. Note | |
| <#heatdegdays> | Heating degree days | |
| <#cooldegdays> | Cooling degree days | |
| <#solarTH> | Highest solar radiation value. Note | <#TsolarTH> |
| <#UVTH> | Highest UV Index. Note | <#TUVTH> |
| <#SunshineHours> | Hours of sunshine so far.Note | |
| <#LightningStrikesToday> | Number of strikes since midnight, default value: 0. Note | |
| <#chillhoursToday> | The incremental chill hours figure since start of today Note | |
Legacy Tags
No Commas; RC Webtags
The conversion of comma decimal separator to a point is described on the parameter page. However, there is a set of legacy webtags which produce that value without a comma and without parameter. Those webtags have a prefix of RC and are listed separately. Those webtags still exist and are listed here without further comment.
Current conditions
<#RCtemp>, <#RCdew>, <#RCheatindex>, <#RChum>, <#RCinhum>, <#RCintemp>, <#RCpress>, <#RCrfall>, <#RCrrate>, <#RCwchill>, <#RCwgust>, <#RCwspeed>, <#RCwlatest>
Today
<#RCpressTH>, <#RCpressTL>, <#RCrrateTM>, <#RCtempTH>, <#RCtempTL>, <#RCwgustTM>, <#RCdewpointTH>, <#RCdewpointTL>, <#RCwchillTL>, <#RCheatindexTH>, <#RCapptempTH>, <#RCapptempTL>
Recent History
<#RCRecentOutsideTemp>, <#RCRecentWindSpeed>, <#RCRecentWindGust>, <#RCRecentWindLatest>, <#RCRecentWindChill>, <#RCRecentDewPoint>, <#RCRecentHeatIndex>, <#RCRecentPressure>, <#RCRecentRainToday>, <#RCRecentUV>
