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The Cooperative Weather Observer Program is administered
by the National Weather Service as a supplemental source of weather data.
As part of the program, nearly 12,000 volunteers across the country collect
information such as temperature, precipitation amount, soil temperature,
evaporation, wind movement, agricultural data, water equivalent of snow
on the ground, river stages, lake levels, atmospheric phenomena, and road
hazards. The National Weather Service supplies the equipment, and the observers
collect the data and relay it to the local NWS office as well as to the
National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC, where it is permanently
archived.
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