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CoCoRaHS 

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Do you love weather? Do you like to work with numbers and weather instruments? Perhaps you'd like to become a volunteer weather observer in Northern Maryland for the Community Collaborative Rain, Snow and Hail Network (CoCoRaHS). 

Bruce Sullivan is reaching out to the WeatherBlog in the hope that our readers might include folks who would be interested in joining the CoCoRaHS team in this area. You would be contributing to the gathering of data such as these.

The group is organizing another training and information session for would-be observers, this coming Tuesday at 3 p.m., at the U.S. Geological Survey office near the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The address is USGS, MD-DE-DC Water Sciences Center, 5522 Research Park Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21228.

(An earlier version of this post listed a 4 p.m. start time. That is incorrect. Session begins at 3 p.m.)

You can also email Bruce at bruce.sullivan@cocorahs.org

Finally, you can read more about the organization here. And here.

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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1993, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
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