State looking for volunteer weather watchers
For the price of a $30 rain gauge, North Carolina residents can become part of the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. It's a group of volunteer weather observers that provide useful data to scientists with the State Climate Office.
Posted — UpdatedLuke Law measures .21 inch and enters the data into a computer with the help of classmate Christina Oelhafen.
It has been a daily ritual in Simpson's class for three years.
“It's really exciting, because it's a hands-on science activity,” Simpson said.
The class is part of a program called CoCoRaHS – the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network – a group of volunteer weather observers that are a big help to forecasters.
Without the volunteers' reports, she said, climatology maps would have observations only from official weather stations.
The state is always looking for more volunteers.
“We're down to about 300 every day, so we really need some help,” Dinon Aldridge said.
It’s something that Simpson's students look forward to every day.
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