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CoCoRaHS Observers by County

15 Feb 2022 05:35 AM
The Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS) project has one of the wildest acronyms you will see. The national project aims to promote citizen science by supporting the daily collection of precipitation reports. The featured map presents the number of CoCoRaHS reporters by county who have made at least one daily report over the past year. It would certainly be nice to have at least one reporter per county in the state, but everyone is encouraged to consider joining the project. You can find more details on the project's website.

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CoCoRaHS County Counts

25 Jun 2020 04:45 AM
While having a wild acronym, the "Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow" network is a citizen science project that primarily organizes the daily collection of rain and snowfall reports. The featured map presents the number of observers per county that have made at least one rainfall report over the past year. Fifteen counties are shown without a currently active observer. The project website is a great place to start if you have interest in joining the network. To join the network, you need to purchase a project official rain gauge which has the ability to measure rainfall at 0.01" inch resolution!

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Active CoCoRaHS Reporters

15 Sep 2016 05:34 AM
CoCoRaHS is a citizen science project that supports the collection of daily rainfall reports. Using a standardized rain gauge, folks can report their precipitation totals to a website. There are number of CoCoRaHS observers in the state, but we have yet to reach having at least one active observer in each county in the state. The featured map displays the number of active users per county, whereby activity is just having one precipitation report made in the past year.

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CoCoRaHS Observers

14 Apr 2015 05:39 AM
CoCoRaHS is a volunteer network of people making daily rain, snow, and hail reports. The project was recently in the news as the White House signed up to be an observation site. Iowa has participated in the project since 1 August 2007 and the featured map displays the number of observers per county that have made at least one report in the past year. Not all counties currently have an active observer, so please consider signing up if you are interested!

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228 stations signed up thus far.

Need more CoCoRaHS observers!

20 Aug 2007 07:00 AM
On 1 August we launched the CoCoRaHS project in Iowa and 20 days later we have at least 1 observer in 66 out of the 99 counties in Iowa! We would really like to have the entire state covered by September 1rst, so if you know of anybody in those counties currently shown in white (no observers) please let them know about CoCoRaHS! The current flooding situation in Iowa shows how important these high resolutions observations are. You can see an impressive summary of August totals here!

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Good: 46
Bad: 24

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