Remember to remove the 8-inch rain gage's funnel and measuring tube at the beginning of the snow season. Please begin sending the snow groups with each observation by the first of October. Use code figure '69' for new snow during the past 24 hours. This is entered to the nearest tenth of an inch. Use code figure '68' for snow depth.
Snow depth is reported to the nearest whole inch.
NWS Staff Changes Just as the weather is changeable, so is the staff at the Spokane weather office. This was especially true over the last few months. Roger Buckman, veteran fire weather forecaster, officially retired at the end of July. Roger worked at the Wenatchee office for almost eleven years before the fire weather duties transferred to the Spokane office in 1997. Before he joined the NWS, his career spanned from a forecaster for Continental Airlines to a Colonel in the US Air Force.