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Nov 26, 2009 8:01 am US/Central

When MN Joins, Weather Network Will Be Nationwide

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) ― A network of volunteer weather watchers started by state climatologist and Colorado State University researcher Nolan Doesken will soon be in all 50 states.

Minnesota will be the 50th state in the network when it joins Tuesday. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, already has about 14,600 volunteers nationwide.

Doesken said scientists across the country use the information from the volunteers. Participants document the size, intensity and patterns of precipitation.

The program was started after five people died in a flood that devastated parts of Fort Collins in July 1997. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is one of the program's major sponsors.

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