Friday, January 01, 2010
Weather Tracking For Kentucky
KENTUCKY....
Over the past year, officials with the Kentucky Climate Center have added 25 weather-tracking stations around Kentucky, bringing the total of sites to 45. The goal of Kentucky Mesonet is to put together a statewide weather monitoring network in an effort to better predict weather moving from county to county. Kentucky Climate Center director Stuart Foster said that he hopes to install at least 20 more sites this year. Officials of the center at Western Kentucky University have been putting up 10-meter towers and station sites since 2007 through a four-year, $3 million federal grant. Foster says he hopes the Mesonet Project will obtain other funding to continue to install up to 100 weather-reading stations across the state.
Over the past year, officials with the Kentucky Climate Center have added 25 weather-tracking stations around Kentucky, bringing the total of sites to 45. The goal of Kentucky Mesonet is to put together a statewide weather monitoring network in an effort to better predict weather moving from county to county. Kentucky Climate Center director Stuart Foster said that he hopes to install at least 20 more sites this year. Officials of the center at Western Kentucky University have been putting up 10-meter towers and station sites since 2007 through a four-year, $3 million federal grant. Foster says he hopes the Mesonet Project will obtain other funding to continue to install up to 100 weather-reading stations across the state.
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