i'm doing citizen science and it's SO FUN and you can too

For those of you in the United States, Canada, or the Bahamas, may I recommend: CoCoRaHS - the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network CoCoRaHS is, as the name implies, a community volunteer effort to measure rain, hail, and snow amounts across the member nations. It's also fun as hell. I LOVE WEATHER SO MUCH (and also doing science but not, like...being responsible for the science) I'm probably the exact target audience for a project like CoCoRaHS. I LOVE WEATHER SO MUCH. I am obsessed with it. I love rain. I love hail. I love snow. I love slight changes in wind. I am at best ambivalent toward rapid changes in barometric pressure, which remind me I have metal in my bones (when they go up) and moderate to severe osteoarthritis (when they go down). I'm the idiot who will happily stand outdoors in a rainstorm. I LOVE WEATHER. I also love KNOWING THINGS, with DATA, except I don't actually like ANALYZING DATA because it requires basic math skills and attention to detail that…