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First United Methodist Church, 505 W. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie, Family Life Center - Gathering Room
• 6 p.m. - Business Meeting
• 7 p.m. - “CoCoRaHS,” presented by Greg Story, Hydro-meteorologist for the National Weather Service Forecast Center in Fort Worth
Greg Story will provide a presentation on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program – “CoCoRaHS” (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network) and how the National Weather Service uses the rainfall data from this important network. CoCoRaHS is a unique, nonprofit grassroots volunteer network made up of people of all ages who measure and map precipitation, be it rain hail or snow.
Greg is the North Texas regional coordinator for CoCo-RaHS and has been at the Fort Worth forecast center since 1993. His areas of expertise include satellite precipitation estimation and improving quantitative precipitation estimation techniques. Prior to the National Weather Service, Greg spent the first 14 years of his professional career as a broadcast meteorologist.
Indian Trail Chapter is part of the statewide Texas Master Naturalist Volunteer Program of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. This program is part of a series of “no cost” “open to the public” Master Naturalist programs offered the fourth Monday (generally) of each month, 7 – 8 p.m. Please bring a friend. For more information, please call the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension at 972-825-5175 or email: information@itmnc.com.
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