In that post I gave an outlook into next week.
There was a narrow band of thunderstorms that swept across much of Kansas yesterday evening. Here is a map showing the rainfall...(click for a larger version)
The rainfall was highly variable with some areas getting nothing or very little and others getting over an inch. Rainfall maps like the one above can be made much more accurate if we had more observations. One way is to ingest observations of rain gauge amounts through a program that was started back in 1998. That program is CoCoRaHS.
Events like last night, with the highly variable amounts that fell, could be more easily verified if we had more reports. Look, for instance at Ford County, KS.
Radar data was used heavily in generating the rainfall map but that radar data also ingested reports from CoCoRaHS to verify what the radar was calculating. The CoCoRaHS program is an extremely important part of the observing program. I talked with a few folks in Ford county that had 3/4 to 1 inch. Please consider joining!
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