9.6 introduced invalid weather line to EPW used for BESTEST runs.

[DavidGoldwasser]

Issue overview

The EPW used for BESTEST runs fails to load with EnergyPlus 9.6. Has energy plus gotten more strict and is an update just needed to this weather file, or should this weather file still load into EnergyPlus. It was not a problem in 9.5 or earlier.

Program Version,EnergyPlus, Version 9.6.0-4b123cf80f, YMD=2021.10.29 10:55,
** Warning ** Site:GroundTemperature:BuildingSurface: Some values fall outside the range of 15-25C.
** ~~~ ** These values may be inappropriate. Please consult the Input Output Reference for more details.
** Severe ** Invalid Weather Line at date=1959/ 1/ 1 Hour#= 1 Min#=60
** ~~~ ** Full Data Line=1959,1,1,1,60,?0?0E7_0E0?0?9D0?9?9?9?9?0?0?0?0?0?0?9?9?9?9,0.0,-6.6,57,82780,0,0,253,0,0,0,999900,999900,999900,99990,203,2.8,7,3,24.1,77777,0,999999999,0,0.0000,0,88
** ~~~ ** Remainder of line=88
** Fatal ** Error in Reading Weather Data

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Mac, E+ 9.6 here is link to GitHub BESTEST issue
NREL/BESTEST-GSR#8

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[jcyuan2020]

Helpdesk Ticket 16053 reported a similar problem--the following error message is shown:

 Invalid Weather Line at date=2002/ 1/ 1 Hour#= 1 Min#=60

[mjwitte]

@DavidGoldwasser Please attach an idf and epw that show the issue. The epws that are used on CI and distributed with EnergyPlus don't seem to have this problem.

[jcyuan2020]

@DavidGoldwasser Do you have a defect file for this problem? The user who posted helpdesk Ticket 16053 supplied a file but it comes with quite some other errors/issues that prevent this to be singled out.

[mjwitte]

@jcyuan2020 Here's the BESTEST epw for this issue.
DRYCOLDTMY.zip

[Myoldmopar]

I'm not sure what else this needs, I was able to confirm the fix.

$ ./energyplus -w /eplus/epw/DRYCOLDTMY.epw ../../../testfiles/1ZoneUncontrolled.idf

• Develop: Program terminated: EnergyPlus Terminated--Error(s) Detected.
• This Branch: EnergyPlus Completed Successfully.