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ocala:
Do you guys still send a 0 amount?
I did at first but no more. Just can't see any reason to do it.
Zero doesn't show up in my monthly total so I just can't see it.
At the end of the month the Jacksonville NWS publishes all the CoCoRaHS for the area and my totals are just about even with the surrounding sites.
To be honest with the benign weather we have been having I usually forget anyways.

tomcj2:
From the CoCoRaHS FAQ section of their site:

--- Quote ---5. What if there is no precipitation to report?

Just record zero (0.00). It is very important to report 0.00, especially on days when there are scattered storms in the area. It is just as important to know where it didn't rain, as it is to know how much it rained where it did.
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floodcaster:
Excellent question. Zeroes are important! Many times during the summer we experience those isolated heavy downpours. Zero reports help determine the gradient around those rainfall patterns. Also, the NWS uses zero reports to estimate soil moisture or in the case of a string of zeroes, lack of soil moisture. This data is used to compute flash flood guidance which provides guidance on how much rain is required in a given duration to produce flooding...based on several factors including soil moisture. If an observer does not report on a given day, we don't know if they really had zero or just forgot or could not report. Yes, a zero means much more than nothing! :grin: ;)




--- Quote from: ocala on November 16, 2008, 07:44:49 AM ---Do you guys still send a 0 amount?
I did at first but no more. Just can't see any reason to do it.
Zero doesn't show up in my monthly total so I just can't see it.
At the end of the month the Jacksonville NWS publishes all the CoCoRaHS for the area and my totals are just about even with the surrounding sites.
To be honest with the benign weather we have been having I usually forget anyways.

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neondesert:

--- Quote from: ocala on November 16, 2008, 07:44:49 AM ---To be honest with the benign weather we have been having I usually forget anyways.

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If you do forget, there is an area where you can enter multiple zeros.  Just use the Monthly Zeros link http://www.cocorahs.org/Admin/MyDataEntry/MonthlyZerosReport.aspx under Enter My New Reports. 

When you live in the desert you become an expert at entering 0!  :lol:

ocala:
I can see in the summer time when the rain is hit and miss but now, not so much in our dry season.

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