I want to take a minute to salute the CoCoRaHS network, who announced today that an official CoCoRaHS rain gauge will be installed in the White House kitchen garden planted this week by Michelle Obama.  The addition was celebrated today in Washington DC as part of the National Science Fair activity at the White House.  This is part of an initiative to increase STEM educational outreach efforts (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).  Here is a link to the official White House press release.

The map below shows the official CoCoRaHS listing, from their Facebook page.

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The picture below this shows Nolan Doesken, the founder of CoCoRaHS, at the celebration.

Image credit: SciStarter
Image credit: SciStarter

If you have not joined CoCoRaHS yet, why not?  You can learn more about it at www.cocorahs.org.