Weather watcher group looking for volunteers
14.10.2007, 07:59
Ever wonder, in a widespread storm event, just what the weather’s doing over in New Berlin, down in the Sand Hills or up in Schumannsville?
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So does the National Weather Service.
And the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS), a volunteer group of weather observers now serving 23 states and the District of Columbia is now expanding into Texas, and is looking for volunteers in and around Guadalupe County.
CoCoRaHS was started at Colorado State University in 1998 to provide precipitation data for education and research applications, and is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service.
“This effort in Texas is especially important given the importance of water in our everyday lives and the fact that our state sees a great variation in our precipitation with 55 to 60 inches of rain on an annual average basis in our southeastern most counties to only eight inches of rain on an annual average basis in the most arid areas of extreme southwest and west Texas,” said Bill Runyon, a National Weather Service Meteorologist based in Guadalupe County who is CoCoRaHS regional coordinator for Austin/San Antonio/Del Rio.
Volunteers will have to pay for their own high-capacity, four-inch rain gauge which the network will help them obtain.