Caution: Some weather stations reset daily data not at midnight

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Use caution when selecting an individual weather station, some of them don’t reset their daily precipitation accumulation totals at midnight which wreaks havoc on Rachio soil moisture calculations! For example, KSCSIMPS200 resets their data at 7:00 pm, so the same rainfall is counted twice if it continues overnight (through midnight) and is counted as twice by Rachio. Be sure to pick a station that uses midnight (in my example I will be picking KSCSIMPS244 instead).

Rachio soil moisture:

May 3 totals:

May4 totals:

Totals for the week are adding up the daily totals, so resetting daily data other than at midnight is an issue:

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