Station Overview Station Location
Station Number IN-PT-124 Latitude 41.4086
Station Name Valparaiso 5.2 SSW Longitude -87.0912
County Porter Elevation (ft) 734



Month 30 Yr Avg by PRISM Total Prcp Sum Days Covered By All Observations Daily Prcp Sum Daily Observation Count Multiday Prcp Sum Days Covered by Multiday Observations Multiday Observation Count Days With Prcp Days With Trace Total Snowfall Days With Snowfall Days With Snow On Ground
Oct 11 3.41 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
Nov 11 3.55 0.64 22 0.64 22 0.00 0 0 2 0 0.0 0 0
Dec 11 2.51 5.19 29 2.40 23 2.79 6 2 7 4 1.8 2 3
Jan 12 2.07 2.30 31 1.93 23 0.37 8 3 10 1 7.8 5 6
Feb 12 1.83 1.33 23 1.03 21 0.30 2 1 9 1 1.5 2 5
March 12 2.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
April 12 3.52 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
May 12 4.09 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
June 12 4.30 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
July 12 4.32 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
Aug 12 4.06 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
Sept 12 3.27 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
Water Year Totals: 39.46" 9.46" 105 days 6.00" 89 3.46" 16 days 6 28 days 6 days 11.1" 9 days 14 days



Days in Water Year Cell Color Key
        Daily Observation with Prcp         Missing Day
        Multiday Observation         Daily/Multiday Observation Conflict

Day of Year Daily Prcp Multiday Prcp
10/1/2011
10/2/2011
10/3/2011
10/4/2011
10/5/2011
10/6/2011
10/7/2011
10/8/2011
10/9/2011
10/10/2011
10/11/2011
10/12/2011
10/13/2011
10/14/2011
10/15/2011
10/16/2011
10/17/2011
10/18/2011
10/19/2011
10/20/2011
10/21/2011
10/22/2011
10/23/2011
10/24/2011
10/25/2011
10/26/2011
10/27/2011
10/28/2011
10/29/2011
10/30/2011
10/31/2011
11/1/2011 0.00
11/2/2011 0.00
11/3/2011
11/4/2011 0.00
11/5/2011 0.00
11/6/2011 0.00
11/7/2011
11/8/2011
11/9/2011
11/10/2011 0.00
11/11/2011 0.00
11/12/2011 0.00
11/13/2011 0.00
11/14/2011
11/15/2011 0.00
11/16/2011 0.00
11/17/2011 0.00
11/18/2011 0.00
11/19/2011 0.00
11/20/2011
11/21/2011 0.00
11/22/2011
11/23/2011 0.00
11/24/2011 0.00
11/25/2011 0.00
11/26/2011 0.34
11/27/2011
11/28/2011 0.30
11/29/2011 0.00
11/30/2011 0.00
12/1/2011
12/2/2011
12/3/2011 0.24
12/4/2011
12/5/2011
12/6/2011
12/7/2011
12/8/2011 0.00
12/9/2011 T
12/10/2011 0.00
12/11/2011 0.00
12/12/2011 0.00
12/13/2011 T **
12/14/2011 1.81 2.76
12/15/2011 0.24
12/16/2011 0.00
12/17/2011 T
12/18/2011 0.00
12/19/2011 0.00
12/20/2011 0.00 **
12/21/2011 0.03 0.03
12/22/2011 0.00
12/23/2011 0.04
12/24/2011 0.02
12/25/2011 0.00
12/26/2011 0.00
12/27/2011 0.02
12/28/2011 T
12/29/2011 0.00
12/30/2011 **
12/31/2011 **
Day of YearDaily PrcpMultiday Prcp
1/1/2012 **
1/2/2012 **
1/3/2012 **
1/4/2012 0.34
1/5/2012 0.00
1/6/2012 T
1/7/2012 0.00
1/8/2012 0.00
1/9/2012 0.00
1/10/2012 0.00
1/11/2012 0.00
1/12/2012 0.00
1/13/2012 0.19
1/14/2012 **
1/15/2012 0.00
1/16/2012 0.09
1/17/2012 0.15
1/18/2012 0.00
1/19/2012 0.12
1/20/2012 0.16
1/21/2012 0.34
1/22/2012 0.00
1/23/2012 0.53
1/24/2012 0.00
1/25/2012 0.00
1/26/2012 0.14
1/27/2012 0.18
1/28/2012 **
1/29/2012 0.03
1/30/2012 0.03
1/31/2012 0.00
2/1/2012 0.04
2/2/2012 0.00
2/3/2012 0.00
2/4/2012 0.38
2/5/2012 0.00
2/6/2012 0.00
2/7/2012 0.00
2/8/2012 0.01
2/9/2012 0.00
2/10/2012 0.03
2/11/2012 **
2/12/2012 0.30
2/13/2012 0.00
2/14/2012 0.02
2/15/2012 T
2/16/2012 0.13
2/17/2012 0.00
2/18/2012 0.00
2/19/2012 0.00
2/20/2012 0.00
2/21/2012 0.19
2/22/2012 0.16
2/23/2012 0.07
2/24/2012 M
2/25/2012
2/26/2012
2/27/2012
2/28/2012
2/29/2012
3/1/2012
3/2/2012
3/3/2012
3/4/2012
3/5/2012
3/6/2012
3/7/2012
3/8/2012
3/9/2012
3/10/2012
3/11/2012
3/12/2012
3/13/2012
3/14/2012
3/15/2012
3/16/2012
3/17/2012
3/18/2012
3/19/2012
3/20/2012
3/21/2012
3/22/2012
3/23/2012
3/24/2012
3/25/2012
3/26/2012
3/27/2012
3/28/2012
3/29/2012
3/30/2012
3/31/2012
Day of YearDaily PrcpMultiday Prcp
4/1/2012
4/2/2012
4/3/2012
4/4/2012
4/5/2012
4/6/2012
4/7/2012
4/8/2012
4/9/2012
4/10/2012
4/11/2012
4/12/2012
4/13/2012
4/14/2012
4/15/2012
4/16/2012
4/17/2012
4/18/2012
4/19/2012
4/20/2012
4/21/2012
4/22/2012
4/23/2012
4/24/2012
4/25/2012
4/26/2012
4/27/2012
4/28/2012
4/29/2012
4/30/2012
5/1/2012
5/2/2012
5/3/2012
5/4/2012
5/5/2012
5/6/2012
5/7/2012
5/8/2012
5/9/2012
5/10/2012
5/11/2012
5/12/2012
5/13/2012
5/14/2012
5/15/2012
5/16/2012
5/17/2012
5/18/2012
5/19/2012
5/20/2012
5/21/2012
5/22/2012
5/23/2012
5/24/2012
5/25/2012
5/26/2012
5/27/2012
5/28/2012
5/29/2012
5/30/2012
5/31/2012
6/1/2012
6/2/2012
6/3/2012
6/4/2012
6/5/2012
6/6/2012
6/7/2012
6/8/2012
6/9/2012
6/10/2012
6/11/2012
6/12/2012
6/13/2012
6/14/2012
6/15/2012
6/16/2012
6/17/2012
6/18/2012
6/19/2012
6/20/2012
6/21/2012
6/22/2012
6/23/2012
6/24/2012
6/25/2012
6/26/2012
6/27/2012
6/28/2012
6/29/2012
6/30/2012
Day of YearDaily PrcpMultiday Prcp
7/1/2012
7/2/2012
7/3/2012
7/4/2012
7/5/2012
7/6/2012
7/7/2012
7/8/2012
7/9/2012
7/10/2012
7/11/2012
7/12/2012
7/13/2012
7/14/2012
7/15/2012
7/16/2012
7/17/2012
7/18/2012
7/19/2012
7/20/2012
7/21/2012
7/22/2012
7/23/2012
7/24/2012
7/25/2012
7/26/2012
7/27/2012
7/28/2012
7/29/2012
7/30/2012
7/31/2012
8/1/2012
8/2/2012
8/3/2012
8/4/2012
8/5/2012
8/6/2012
8/7/2012
8/8/2012
8/9/2012
8/10/2012
8/11/2012
8/12/2012
8/13/2012
8/14/2012
8/15/2012
8/16/2012
8/17/2012
8/18/2012
8/19/2012
8/20/2012
8/21/2012
8/22/2012
8/23/2012
8/24/2012
8/25/2012
8/26/2012
8/27/2012
8/28/2012
8/29/2012
8/30/2012
8/31/2012
9/1/2012
9/2/2012
9/3/2012
9/4/2012
9/5/2012
9/6/2012
9/7/2012
9/8/2012
9/9/2012
9/10/2012
9/11/2012
9/12/2012
9/13/2012
9/14/2012
9/15/2012
9/16/2012
9/17/2012
9/18/2012
9/19/2012
9/20/2012
9/21/2012
9/22/2012
9/23/2012
9/24/2012
9/25/2012
9/26/2012
9/27/2012
9/28/2012
9/29/2012
9/30/2012



Observation Date Observation Time Precipitation Snowfall Snowfall SWE Snow Depth Snow SWE Notes
11/1/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/2/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/4/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/5/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/6/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/10/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/11/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/12/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/13/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/15/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/16/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/17/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/18/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/19/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/21/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/23/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/24/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/25/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/26/2011 6:00 PM 0.34 0.0 M M M
11/28/2011 6:00 PM 0.30 M M M M
11/29/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
11/30/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M
12/3/2011 6:15 PM 0.24 M M M M
12/8/2011 7:26 PM 0.00 0.0 M M M No rainfall for today.
12/9/2011 5:00 PM T 0.3 M 0.1 0.13 There's ice frozen in rain guage, changes may be nessesary. Those changes will be applied when the ice melts and gets recorded by my sensor. The reason why the snow is .3, I had to round up to that # from .25, my measurement was off though. We had about a quarter of an inch of snow.
12/10/2011 7:56 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M Due to cold conditions, the snow lasted at its origional amout since yesterday night.
12/11/2011 4:04 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
12/12/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M T M A couple spots of snow still around on the ground at observation time.
12/13/2011 3:15 PM T 0.0 M 0.0 M There were a couple sprinkles around, there was a trace of rain around early this morning
12/14/2011 3:15 PM 1.81 0.0 M 0.0 M Heavy Precipitation begain around 10:44 A.M and wasn't able to tell when it ended. Still raining at observstion time. Rain Guage wasn't emptied though, it will continue measuring through tonight.
12/15/2011 3:15 PM 0.24 0.0 M 0.0 M There's still some flooding around from last night. We also picked up about another 1/4 of an inch this morning.
12/16/2011 9:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M I was at my friends house, there was unusual strret flooding just east of his house.
12/17/2011 9:25 AM T T M T M Grass is still showing on the ground. Snow isn't completely covering the grass.
12/18/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
12/19/2011 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
12/20/2011 5:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M There was no precipitation for today, this report covers the times: 5:15 A.M. - 3:15 P.M. No rainfall has fallen today.
12/21/2011 5:22 AM 0.03 0.0 M 0.0 M Drizzle has fallen during early morning hours, my rain guage measures at the time .03.
12/22/2011 8:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
12/23/2011 8:30 AM 0.04 0.0 M 0.0 M This report is from the rain last night. It rained .04 in, in other words, very light drizzle. Time began is from yesterday.
12/24/2011 8:30 AM 0.02 0.0 M 0.0 M Light drizzle had fallen last night. Rain gauge measured .02 inches of rain.
12/25/2011 8:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Merry Christmas!!
12/26/2011 8:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M This report covers the past 24 hours since the last report. My weather radio says that rsin will start, then mix with snow, finally change to snow.
12/27/2011 8:30 AM 0.02 1.5 M 1.5 M Rain reads .02, the reason is that there was some light drizzle last night. My 3 snowboards all measured 1.5 inches. Not enough in our area to go sledding or snowboarding yet, I'd estimate you'd need at minimum, 1 more inch of snow.
12/28/2011 8:30 AM T T M 0.1 M There is some trace of snow on my snowboard. The snow on the ground however was measurable, it came out to be a tenth of an inch. There was also sprinkles around last night.
12/29/2011 7:54 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M
1/5/2012 9:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
1/6/2012 5:15 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M
1/7/2012 9:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
1/8/2012 9:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M There was some frost on the ground this morning, I consider frost to be a type of ice or snow. There was water in my rain guage this morning. One of my boards did have snow on it. It wasn't enough to measure, but it was still something.
1/9/2012 5:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M Frost was on the ground this morning, I consider it to be a type of ice. New Snowfall is reading 0 because it didn't fall from the sky, it forms on the ground. The sidewalk was a little slippery this morning, early though. It lifted some time after 8:00 this morning. My observation time today was at 5:30 this morning.
1/10/2012 5:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M Frost was on the ground this morning, again it didn't come from the sky, but I consider it to be a type of ice. However, there was a little ice on the ground at the time as well.
1/11/2012 5:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
1/12/2012 5:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
1/13/2012 6:40 AM 0.19 2.1 M 2.0 M Some snow may have melted, but we did pick up 2 inches this morning.
1/16/2012 3:15 PM 0.09 0.0 M T M Total Snow reads Trace because snow is on the ground but there is no snow on my Total Snow Board.
1/17/2012 3:15 PM 0.15 0.1 M 0.1 M The rain ended around 9:45 A.M. Whenever the snow began is invalid. The rain dropped .15 inches of water. So there were 2 forms of precipitation were dropped today.
1/18/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M T M
1/19/2012 3:15 PM 0.12 0.6 M 0.5 M Average of 2 boards came out to be .6 inches, TSD Board came out to be .5 inches. There was no rain, just picked up a half an inch of snow this morning.
1/20/2012 3:15 PM 0.16 1.2 0.17 1.7 M
1/21/2012 9:00 AM 0.34 3.8 0.35 4.5 M I did record additional data every hour after yesterdays observation time.
1/22/2012 9:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 4.0 0.47 The core sample was taken off from the snow that was currently on the ground.
1/23/2012 3:15 PM 0.53 0.0 M T 0.74
1/24/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M T 0.53 There are still a little snow on the ground. I took a core sample in one of the piles. The pile is the same height as the others that are around.
1/25/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M T 0.67 Core was taken off from any leftover snow that was on the ground.
1/26/2012 3:15 PM 0.14 0.0 M T 0.85
1/27/2012 3:15 PM 0.18 0.0 M T 0.50
1/30/2012 3:15 PM 0.03 0.0 M T 1.89 Any rain that we got must've added to the water content that was in the snow. I took the sample from any snow that was on the ground. It wasn't a very big pile. The ground is very soggy.
1/31/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/1/2012 3:15 PM 0.04 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/2/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/3/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/4/2012 8:00 AM 0.38 1.0 T 1.0 M There was a mix of precipitation of rain and snow. However, the snow had very close to no water at all. So this snow is the fluffy type of snow.
2/5/2012 9:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M There was a little frost on the groud. The funny part was that the frost was only where the shadows where. The sidewalk was not very slick. Everything was running likee normal this morning.
2/6/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M There was some frost still in my rain guage from the freezing fog. It put our school on a 2 hour delay. The fog was very dense, we couldn't see at all while my mom was driving to go to work. Then we got the alert that our school was delayed and went back home.
2/7/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/8/2012 3:15 PM 0.01 0.0 M 0.0 M There was a very small amount of water in the rain guage when I came home. Even though it was very little. I was still able to measure it.
2/9/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/10/2012 3:15 PM 0.03 T M T M There was snow on the ground, however, there was nothing on the snow boards, that would mean trace. I will record aditional 30-min data from todays observation until tonight.
2/13/2012 3:15 PM 0.00 0.0 M 4.0 0.59
2/14/2012 3:15 PM 0.02 0.5 M 3.2 0.63 Some snow melted during the day. My boards said that there was 0.5 inches of snow left on my "New Snow" Board when I went outside for my observation. This is the best I can do right now. Happy Valentines Day!
2/15/2012 9:00 AM T 0.0 M 2.7 1.00 Believe it or not, when my mom and I measured the water content of the snow that was on the ground. When we removed the 2 inches that we had. We knew that whatever was left was the water content of the snow. We measured it out, we never lost a drop, we got exactly 1 inch for SWE! There was a drop of water in my guage before I measured the water content of the snow.
2/16/2012 7:00 AM 0.13 0.0 M 0.9 M It did rain last night. So this measurement was as soon as the storm was over.
2/17/2012 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T 0.75 The core was taken from whatever snow was left on the ground.
2/18/2012 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T 0.56
2/19/2012 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T 0.21
2/20/2012 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/21/2012 3:15 PM 0.19 M M 0.0 M I'm uncertain of how much snow has fallen before it turned over to rain. Without much info, I can't get a good measurement. There is no snow on the ground when I did this observation. Water content of the snow when it melted in the gauge I'm certain of. I checked my automated station, and the measurement was very close. I'm going with 0.19 inches of Precipitation.
2/22/2012 3:15 PM 0.16 M M 0.0 M I'm uncertain about snowfall, that's why New Snow is reading "NA". I don't know the snowfall amount because I didn't get a chance to measure it when it ended. There's no snow on the ground at the time of this observation.
2/23/2012 3:15 PM 0.07 0.0 M 0.0 M
2/24/2012 3:15 PM M M M 0.0 M



Start Date End Date & Time Duration in Days Precipitation Snow Depth Snow Depth SWE Notes
12/13/2011 12/14/2011 3:10 PM 2 2.76 0.0 M
12/20/2011 12/21/2011 3:00 PM 2 0.03 0.0 0.00 The light rain started sometime last night, during the day, while I was in school, it read .03 in. when I got back.
12/30/2011 1/04/2012 7:15 PM 6 0.34 0.0 M
1/14/2012 1/15/2012 6:10 PM 2 0.00 1.0 M While I was gone, the sun did show on it for the weekend, the snow compacted. Melted half of the snow of what I had on Friday Morning.
1/28/2012 1/29/2012 6:20 PM 2 0.03 0.3 M
2/11/2012 2/12/2012 6:15 PM 2 0.30 4.4 M



Observation Date Observation Time Notes Largest Stone Size Average Stone Size Smallest Stone Size Stone Consistency Duration Minutes Durration Accuracy Damage Timing More Rain than Hail Hail Started Largest Hail Started Angle of Impact Number of Stones on Pad Distance Between Stones on Pad Depth of Stones on Ground