Photo By A. Mukhi
Bruce students have officially
joined the CoCoRAHS team! The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow
Network, or CoCoRAHS, is a non-profit,
community-based network of volunteers working to measure and map precipitation
across Canada and the United States.
In mid October, Tiffiny
Talyor, Program
Coordinator for CoCoRaHS Manitoba,
visited Bruce Middle School to introduce the program to Mr. Fisher-Smith’s
Grade 8 science classes. Using chocolate chip cookies as an analogy,
Ms. Taylor showed how the chocolate chips are similar to weather stations – the
more chocolate chips the better!
Doing their part to
support the precipitation monitoring, the BMS Grade 8 students set up their very
own precipitation gauge and made their first of many precipitation measurements
on October 29, 2014 observing that 0.2 mm of rain had fallen in the previous
24-hour period at station number: CAN-MB-198 (Winnipeg 9.8 W –BruceMdlSchool).
You can follow the school’s
precipitation monitoring at http://data.cocorahs.org/cocorahs/maps/?country=can
To join the CoCoRAHS
program or for more information please visit http://cocorahs.org/Canada.aspx
or email Tiffiny Taylor at tiffiny.taylor@fbcpublishing.com or manitoba@cocorahs.org.
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