Accurate weather forecasts are critical to local government. Whether it’s deciding when to start salting and plowing operations, staging barricades for an expected flood-related road closure or planning maintenance operations, decisions made based on the forecast impact both operations and the budget.

The key to improving weather forecasts and improving accuracy is knowing what actually happened on the ground—did the forecasted amount of rain fall? How much water is in the 8 inches of snow remaining on the ground?

The National Weather Service, the Wisconsin State Climatologist, and University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension need your help in improving forecast accuracy—and it takes less than two minutes per day to check an official rain gauge once daily and provide the number to the National Weather Service.

Meteorologist Taylor Patterson shares more about what she does everyday and how the general public can become weather observers through the Community Collaborative Rain, Hal and Snow Network or CoCoRaHS.

To learn more or sign up to be a weather observer, visit wisconsinweatherwatchers.org

Accurate weather forecasts are critical to local government. Whether it’s deciding when to start salting and plowing operations, staging barricades for an expected flood-related road closure or planning maintenance operations, decisions made based on the forecast impact both operations and the budget.
The key to improving weather forecasts and improving accuracy is knowing what actually happened on the ground—did the forecasted amount of rain fall? How much water is in the 8 inches of snow remaining on the ground?
The National Weather Service, the Wisconsin State Climatologist, and University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension need your help in improving forecast accuracy—and it takes less than two minutes per day to check an official rain gauge once daily and provide the number to the National Weather Service.
Meteorologist Taylor Patterson shares more about what she does everyday and how the general public can become weather observers through the Community Collaborative Rain, Hal and Snow Network or CoCoRaHS.
To learn more or sign up to be a weather observer, visit <a href="wisconsinweatherwatchers.org">wisconsinweatherwatchers.org</a>

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