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THE COOPERATIVE WEATHER OBSERVER PROGRAM |
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| What
is the COOP Program? |
The Cooperative Weather Observer Program
is an extensive network of volunteer weather observers (>12,000)
across the U.S. that voluntarily collects information such as temperature,
daily precipitation, soil temperature, evaporation, wind movement,
agricultural data, snowfall, river stages, lake levels, and atmospheric
phenomena. The National Weather Service supplies the equipment,
and the observers collect the data and relays it to the local National
Weather Service office, where it is sent to the National Climatic
Data Center in Asheville, NC to be permanently archived.
The National Weather Service shows it's appreciation
to the network of observers, by presenting several awards each
year. These awards include the Thomas Jefferson, John Campanius
Holm, and the Length of Service award, among others.
The Thomas Jefferson award is
the highest award presented to volunteer observers and only 5
are presented annually. To be eligible for this award, the candidate
must have received the John Campanius Holm award at least five
years prior to nomination, and must still be performing duties
in an outstanding manner.
The John Campanius Holm award is very
prestigious and is granted to 25 observers annually for outstanding
accomplishments in the field of meteorological observations.
Length of Service awards are presented to individual Cooperative
Observers at 5 year increments, beginning at the 10 year anniversary.
Institutional awards are also presented to recognize businesses
and corporate groups, but only in 25 year increments.
We have made many presentations in the last few years to
members of our observing family. Please take a look through our
album to see the accomplishments of our COOP observers.
Award Recipients for previous years
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If you want to be a part of our weather family and you live
in east Texas, southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas and northern
Louisiana, fill out the attached form and submit it to us for evaluation.
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