Interested in signing up for CoCoRaHS? Just want to learn more about the nationwide network of precipitation observers? This post is for you! For more than 20 years, CoCoRaHS has maintained a network of weather observers across the nation that report critical precipitation totals on a daily basis. The project got it’s start in Colorado…
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“Couldn’t Make it to Top, Wind Gauge Destroyed”
While the blizzard of a lifetime raged on the morning of March 13, 1993, the weather observer on Grandfather Mountain made a daring attempt to reach the ranger station to take his usual daily measurements. That day, however, was far different from any other day he’d experienced on the mountain. An area of low pressure…
The Winter of Close Calls
Let’s start with some trivia… What’s hot, cold, wet, dry, and depressingly dark? If you said “winter in the Carolinas”, you got it right! We’re offering free spring passes until June, get ’em while they’re not too hot! In all seriousness, meteorological winter just wrapped up, so I wanted to do a quick review of…