{"id":428,"date":"2014-07-21T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T04:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=428"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:14:19","slug":"tonights-radar-shows-the-importance-of-having-many-rain-observers-or-good-radar-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/07\/tonights-radar-shows-the-importance-of-having-many-rain-observers-or-good-radar-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight&#8217;s radar shows the importance of having many rain observers or good radar coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service in Peachtree City posted this radar image of a high-intensity rainfall event today in Heard County which shows that some areas of the county received eight inches or more of rainfall in just a few hours (regions in purple). \u00a0However, the CoCoRaHS network has only one observer in Heard County, in an area to the north of the core of heavy rain. \u00a0The UGA station at Roopville is also to the north of the storm. \u00a0The only National Weather Service coop station in Heard County, at Franklin (right near the middle of today&#8217;s storm), closed in 2005. \u00a0 Without radar imagery, no one would be able to see the extent of the precipitation. \u00a0But observers on the ground are needed to make sure that the radar calibration is accurate, especially in high-intensity rainfall events like this one. \u00a0If accurate rainfall measurements are important to folks in your county, particularly for insurance claims, then encourage them to consider joining a volunteer group like CoCoRaHS and making their own precipitation measurements. \u00a0Or do it yourself! \u00a0It just takes a few minutes a day and can be an invaluable source of information. \u00a0Go to <a title=\"CoCoRaHS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cocorahs.org<\/a> for more information. \u00a0County agents in many states are already in the network!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/07\/heard-county-flood-7-21-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-429\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/07\/heard-county-flood-7-21-2014-300x284.png\" alt=\"heard county radar 7-20-2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/07\/heard-county-flood-7-21-2014-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/07\/heard-county-flood-7-21-2014-145x138.png 145w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/07\/heard-county-flood-7-21-2014.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\/Maps\/GetMap.aspx?state=GA&amp;county=HD&amp;type=stations&amp;date=07\/20\/2014&amp;cp=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service in Peachtree City posted this radar image of a high-intensity rainfall event today in Heard County which shows that some areas of the county received eight inches or more of rainfall in just a few hours (regions in purple). \u00a0However, the CoCoRaHS network has only one observer in Heard County, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22764,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/22764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}