Reporting Guidelines: Winter

Weather Event

Reporting Criteria

• When the first inch has fallen.
• Follow-up reports for each additional 2 inches.
• Storm total.
• 12 hour totals. Report between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. and again between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. whenever an inch or more has fallen.

• Amounts of one inch or greater within a 24 hour period.

• Freezing Rain or Sleet starts to fall.
• Ice causes serious impact on travel.
• Ice causes damage, such as to power lines and/or tree limbs.

Try to estimate amount of glazing (1/4 inch, 1/2 inch).

• Any wind gust 40 mph or greater.
• Any damage caused by high winds.

• Visibility of 1/4 mile or less.
• Fog which has an impact on travel.

• Any flooding that covers roads or threatens property, whether from precipitation, ice jams, or coastal flooding.
• Any ice jam.

• Any time precipitation falls and its not in the NWS forecast.
• Any time fog occurs with visibility less than one mile and its not in the forecast.
• Any time a different precipitation falls than what is in the forecast. For example, rain was forecast and snow and/or sleet falls.