Southmont, North Carolina

. . . Fischer-Porter rebuild /fpr/ rain gage now implemented at
cooperative station, Burlington 3 NNE, North Carolina, on november16,
2009...

The National Weather Service in Raleigh North Carolina has begun a program to
install upgraded automated rain gages in its area of responsibility.
This equipment modification will change the way the precipitation
measurement is taken and recorded. Instead of an outdated paper
punching system, the new gages will utilize a digital data logger.
There will be no change in the quality, or the timeliness of hourly
precipitation data or hpd. Data will continue to be reported in
monthly hpd publications.

There are a total of nine sites to receive the Fischer-Porter
rebuilds in the WFO Raleigh County warning area or cwa. Sites that
are to be upgraded are listed with their implementation dates or
projected installation dates.

Coop station name . . . . . . . . .Coop number . . . . . Implemented/projected
b.E. Jordan dam 31-0750 Nov 3 2009
Badin 31-0438 Nov 9 2009
Burlington 3 NNE 31-1241 Nov 16 2009
Carthage 31-1515 Nov 2009
Fayetteville 31-3017 Nov 2009
Laurinburg 31-4860 Dec 2009
Lexington 31-4970 Dec 2009
Raleigh state univ 31-7079 Dec 2009
Wilson 3sw 31-9476 Dec 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/