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Any tips on creating a new met data file?

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Any tips on creating a new met data file?

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MetWatch stores weather data in a file with the extension ‘que’. A new file is created in MetWatch using the menu item File | Create Met File. A setup wizard will step you through creating a new file. By convention we create a new data file in MetWatch to store the weather data from one weather station for one year. In the Southern Hemisphere our growing season the spans calendar years, so it makes the most sense to have a data file which is in synch with the growing season. We use 1 June as the starting date for the met file, and 31 May as the end date. Each weather station is usually assigned a three-letter code name. We use these in the file naming conventions. When you need to input the name for the new file use a combination of: station name, start year, stop year. So for example for a file for Manatuke, Gisborne (MTK) for the 1999/2000 growing season you would create a file called MTK9900 ie. start date 1/6/1999, end date 31/5/2000 MetWatch calculates the time of sunrise and suns

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