Hilberg's Tips -- How to Correct a Multi-Day Amount Submitted as a Daily Amount

Situation: you are gone for the weekend, and on Monday morning you need to report your weekend precip accumulation. In an early morning fog you log on to CoCoRaHS, enter your precipitation amount, and click Submit. Gaackk!! You realize you just entered your weekend accumulation as a daily amount. So, you pull up the multi-day accumulation report, enter the dates and your amount, and click Submit. The screen lights up in red text: Errors: This multi-day report would overlap with daily report on 5/12/2015. Failed to save the Multiple Day Precipitation Accumulation Report. Great.....now what?

As long as you have a valid amount on the conflicting daily report you will get an error. In order to submit the multi-day report, FIRST edit your daily report and set your erroneous daily report amount to NA, then Submit. Now, you can go ahead and enter the multi-day report without generating an error. There is one last step you need to do to make this a clean operation. Send an email to qc@cocorahs.org with your station number and the date of the NA'ed daily report. We will make sure the daily report is removed from the database. If it is not, then your observations will not list correctly when you list your data using the Station Precip Summary or Station Snow Summary.