The modern affordable, professional quality weather stations are able to provide high level of accuracy, reliability and ruggedness. The wireless or cabled weather stations along with special software allow reliable weather monitoring and reporting, what is especially important during extreme meteorological events.

On the link below you find the text "Citizen-scientists’ weather observations – importance for society" describing cases of citizen-scientists' contribution to weather monitoring.
www.drihm.eu/images/documents/CitizenSci...20DRIHM%20vision.pdf

This text was written in close collaboration with Matti Heikkurinen. The first part is the fictional situation, written in joking tone. The second part gives some real examples of precipitation reporting by citizen-scientists’- meteorological amateurs.

Pleasant reading to all,
thanks for attention,
Tatiana Bedrina