Bruce Joins CoCoRAHS Team!

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.