CoCoRaHS

Monday – February 25, 2019
Location: First United Methodist Church
505 W. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie, TX
Family Life Center - Gathering Room
· 6:00 PM - Business Meeting

· 7:00 PM - Program presented by Greg Story – Hydrometeorologist for the National Weather Service Forecast Center in Fort Worth

“CoCoRaHS”

Greg Story will provide a presentation on – “CoCoRaHS” (“Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network”) and how the National Weather Service uses the rainfall data from this important network. CoCoRaHS is a unique, nonprofit grassroots volunteer network founded and operated at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. This network is made up of people of all ages from all around the US, Canada and the Bahamas who measure and map precipitation, be it rain hail or snow.

Greg is the North Texas regional coordinator for CoCoRaHS and has been at the Fort Worth forecast center since 1993. His areas of expertise include satellite precipitation estimation and improving quantitative precipitation estimation techniques. Prior to the National Weather Service, Greg spent the first 14 years of his professional career as a broadcast meteorologist.

Indian Trail Chapter is part of the statewide Texas Master Naturalist Volunteer Program of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

The Mission …to develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach,
and service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas
within their communities for the State of Texas.

This program is part of a series of “no cost” “open to the public” Master Naturalist programs offered the fourth Monday (generally) of each month, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Please bring a friend! For more information, please call the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension at 972-825-5175 or email: information@itmnc.com

Posted on February 6, 2019 04:54 PM by cgritz