--CoCoRaHS-- Daily Rain and Snow Form

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This is the your daily precipitation report form. The information you submit will be used to produce precipitation maps of Colorado.
Please make sure your entries are correct before you press the submit button! Rain Gauge Graphic

Station Information

Station number (examples: 42, 309, LR5, JF101, RMHS71)
Station name (examples: FCL 4.5 SW, Denver 3.0 E, Nucla 23 S)
Yes No Was observation taken at the registered location?

Date rain gauge was emptied and read.

Month
Day
Year

Change if necessary. If you can't enter the month, day, or year above, use the Funky Date Form. Make sure you change the date correctly!

am pm Time rain gauge was emptied and read.
Change if different than 7:00 am.

Total Precipitation (in inches)
Precipitation (rain or the melted water content of snow) that fell in the rain gauge for the past 24-hours ending at 7:00 am today. If there was no precipitation, report 0.00. If some precipitation fell, but the total was less than 0.01 inches, enter T in the field.

New Snow Amount (in inches)
The depth of new snow that fell in the past 24-hours on your snowboard, measured to the nearest tenth of an inch. If the snow depth is less than 0.1 inch, enter T in the field. If melting has occurred during the past 24 hours, record the maximum depth of new snow before melting.

Total Depth of Snow on Ground (in inches)
Total amount of snow (new and old snow combined) on the ground measured to the nearest 0.5 inch. You may need to take several measurements and average them to get this data.

Core Precipitation (in inches)
The amount of water present in a core sample of the new snow on your snowboard taken with a 4 inch diameter rain gauge. If the amount is less than 0.01 inches, enter T in the field.

The following is optional information.

Report all or part of the following information, if known and if you have the time. For instance, if it rained or snowed on and off all day, leave the "rain began" and "rain ended" fields blank.

Precipitation began: (HH:MM) am pm

Precipitation ended: (HH:MM) am pm

Heaviest precipitation began:(HH:MM) am pm

Heaviest precipitation lasted: minutes

These times are:
Very accurate
Reasonably accurate
Approximate

Did you record hourly precipitation (or other detailed time increments) for this storm? Yes No

If yes, CoCoRaHS personel may request a copy of this data later, so please save it.

Any Flooding?
No
If Yes, how severe?:
Minor (typical). Street or field flooding.
Unusual street or field flooding (only see this every few years)
Severe Flooding
Extreme (never seen it this bad before)

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