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It’s March Madness for the SCDNR’s Climatology Office, and the climatologists, in partnership with the National Weather Service, are recruiting citizen precipitation observers for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. It is a grassroots volunteer network of backyard weather observers of all ages and backgrounds. The program started in Colorado in 1998 and was introduced in South Carolina in 2008. Since then, the network has grown across the state and observers report daily totals of rainfall, and the occasional snowfall. Despite the hundreds of active volunteers, there are still areas of the state with no observers and every county is in need of additional observers. According to State Climatologist Hope Mizzell, “These citizen scientists have been instrumental in measuring precipitation across the Palmetto State, by supplying data during high impact rainfall events, including the recent floods of 2015, and those associated with Hurricane Matthew and Tropical Storm Florence.” To become an observer visit www.cocorahs.org.