Scott A. Kampas
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Although it's of limited utility to most storm chasers, the Kentucky Mesonet is now going online.
There is also a mesonet in Utah (and apparently additional obs for other mountain west states) and one in the works for North Carolina.
University of Missouri's Extension Commercial Agriculture Program with Mizzou and SLU's meteorology departments have been slowly building a Missouri mesonet since the early 1990s, but the stations that are in place aren't yet providing available data in (near) real-time. Texas A&M is also working toward a mesonet for parts of that state.
These complement the well-known and highly useful mesonets of Oklahoma, West Texas, and Iowa. I don't know of any others with publicly available near real-time data (various utilities, DOTs, and other institutions operate proprietary networks such as "QuantumWeather" for eastern Missouri and the St. Louis metro). Interestingly, Japan's standard surface network has a tighter spacing than our densest mesonets (excluding micronets like OKC) at 17 km. The explosion of private weather stations and availability of their data on the internet continues, but I focus on standardized formal networks.
There is also a mesonet in Utah (and apparently additional obs for other mountain west states) and one in the works for North Carolina.
University of Missouri's Extension Commercial Agriculture Program with Mizzou and SLU's meteorology departments have been slowly building a Missouri mesonet since the early 1990s, but the stations that are in place aren't yet providing available data in (near) real-time. Texas A&M is also working toward a mesonet for parts of that state.
These complement the well-known and highly useful mesonets of Oklahoma, West Texas, and Iowa. I don't know of any others with publicly available near real-time data (various utilities, DOTs, and other institutions operate proprietary networks such as "QuantumWeather" for eastern Missouri and the St. Louis metro). Interestingly, Japan's standard surface network has a tighter spacing than our densest mesonets (excluding micronets like OKC) at 17 km. The explosion of private weather stations and availability of their data on the internet continues, but I focus on standardized formal networks.
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