[K3CAL] Fwd: Fwd: SKYWARN Snowfall Reporting

[steve hempling]

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From: Lwx-Report Lwx-Report - NOAA Service Account <lwx-report at noaa.gov>
Date: 11/09/2016 9:06 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Lwx-Report <Lwx-Report at noaa.gov>
Subject: SKYWARN Snowfall Reporting

NWS Baltimore/Washington SKYWARN Spotter,

The purpose of this email is to introduce you to a new method this 
winter of transmitting your SKYWARN snowfall reports, and to review 
snowfall observation procedures.

Your SKYWARN snowfall report is vitally important in supporting our 
office’s winter weather operations.During the snowstorm, your SKYWARN 
report helps us see what has fallen across the area, which in turn helps 
us refine our forecast. Your SKYWARN report also documents for 
historical purposes how much your area received.

This year, you will need to use a new Google Form to submit your SKYWARN 
spotter snowfall reports. This method of using the Google Forms will put 
your observation directly into our system, as opposed to previous method 
of emailing your report to LWX-report at noaa.gov 
<mailto:LWX-report at noaa.gov>.To access the new Google Form, please go to 
this web address:http://ht.ly/fHIx305Kn8n.You will need to have your 
SKYWARN ID in order to use this service.Please save this site and use it 
to report snow this winter.

Here is a quick review of other snowfall observation procedures:

1.Remember to use a snowboard, and clear it no more than every six 
hours. In other words, clearing it every 6 hours, or once a day, (as 
necessary) is fine. Do not clear your snowboard every hour!

2.If winds are creating uneven snow accumulations, take an average of 
several readings. Discount any extreme high or low readings in your 
averaging.

3.Report any amount of ice glaze, and report snow every couple inches or 
so as you are able. A storm total is important information at the end.

4.Report changes to precipitation type in "Remarks". (Ex. snow to rain, 
etc.)

If you don’t remember your SKYWARN ID, please let me know.

Thanks for assisting the NWS and your community!

Heather Kenyon

SKYWARN Program Leader

National Weather Service

Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office

Sterling, Virginia

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