Directions for producing Oneonta weather tabulations and summaries



1. Click the program link to download the DOS program CLIMO4.EXE and save it somewhere on your hard drive.  
I suggest making a folder named CLIMO and putting the three files you need in it (CLIMO4.EXE, input.obs, 
these directions).  

You already have the link below the program link because it is this file that you are reading.


2. Click the third link (the one below the Instructions link).  Save the file input.obs.txt to the same folder on your hard 
drive as the one where you saved the climo4 file.  YOU MUST rename the file INPUT.OBS (get rid of the .txt and ignore the warning about renaming files).  When the file is named INPUT.OBS, you are ready to run CLIMO4.


3. Run climo4.exe by double-clicking it.  A DOS box will open. 


4. Follow the prompts.  Notice the date is in MMDDYY format.  For example, June 29, 2002 is 062902
and the leading zero is necessary.  Put in a start date and an end date.  If your dates are backwards or
impossible, the program will terminate so be careful.  One-month time periods are probably the easiest as
they take about one page if you care to print it.  Also, the 1971-00 and 1961-90 normals are based on 
one-month periods.

*Important: If either of the dates you specified don't exist, the program will search forever, putting a 
recurring message on the screen telling you it can't find it.  Press CTRL-C (hold the Ctrl button down 
and press the C key) to terminate CLIMO4. Then drag climlog.txt to the recyler (see step 6). Now you 
can try another set of dates by running CLIMO4 again.  


5. Your listing can be day-by-day which includes an overall summary at the bottom, or just the overall 
summary. If you ask for a long time period, like a year, you may want to see only the summary.  The 
day-by-day listing can get quite long.


6. When it says "ready to list. Are you logging this?", just press the Enter key.  Logging is now automatic.
The program will write a text file called climlog.txt in the same folder as the program and data.  

IMPORTANT!!!!  Move the climlog.txt file to a different folder.  The program will not run the next time you 
want it if climlog.txt exists in the folder as it assumes climlog.txt is to be created.


7. The program will terminate itself.  To do another time period, run CLIMO4 again (did you move climlog.txt?  
If not, running CLIMO4 results in a very rapid termination with no explanation.  Move climlog.txt and try again.).  
If you must have climlog.txt in that folder, save all climlog.txt files under different names.

8. The data from climlog.txt can be imported to Excel or WORD for whatever analysis you wish to do.  To import, 
open the application and Open climlog.txt from the File menu. Then follow the directions in the Import Wizard (Excel).