Camp Meeker, California

... Fischer-Porter rebuild /fpr/ now implemented at cooperative
station Venado, California...

This equipment modification will change the way the precipitation
measurement is taken. There will be no change in the quality or the
timeliness of this station's hourly precipitation data /hpd/.
Data will continue to be reported in monthly hpd publications.

There are a total of eight sites that have received the Fischer-Porter
rebuild in the WFO-San Francisco Bay area County Warning
Area /cwa/. Latest site upgraded listed with implementation
date below.

Coop station name . . . . . . . . .Coop number . . . . . Implemented
Venado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .04-9273. . . . . . . . Nov 9 2009



The data from fpr gages will be reported by the National climate
data center /ncdc/ as a monthly product in the hourly precipitation
data /hpd/ bulletin five months after the month of measurement.

Information on hpd precipitation products is available from ncdc.

Http://www.Ncdc.NOAA.Gov/oa/mpp/ use lower case letters and scroll
down to /most requested f/ section - the sixth section on the
Page - then click on the word /Sample/ to view an hpd bulletin.

If you have any questions regarding the implementation of the
Fischer-Porter rebuild, at the above listed sites, please contact:

Robert Benjamin
NWS/WFO-mtr... observations program Leader (opl)
Monterey, California
phone: 831 656 1710 ext 286
email: Robert.Benjamin@noaa.Gov
this and other NWS public information statements are available
online at /use lower case letters/:

   http://www.NWS.NOAA.Gov/om/notif.Htm