Strawberry River weather station is now on Mesonet

[JimSouthwick]

Just looked at the Mesonet map, and there it is!

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/current/meso.wfrnt.php

[Marty Lowe]

This will be a great tool...



-Marrty

[Jacob Buzianis]

YAHOO! I have been waiting for this.

Thanks, Jim!

[whit]

Our wishes have come true!!! Hurray!!! Does anyone know how this happened? I posted about getting it on the Mesowest last week. There are some more anemometers that would be great to get listed also. Cheers Whit

[john l]

I've been asking some questions about this at work the last few days. Basically, MesoWest is maintained by grad students up at UofU. When a request to add a gage from an organization (ie. UDot) is put in or they find out about a new gage, a grad student will add the gage to the network when they have time within their studies. This process requires them know how the data is being transmitted (ie, phone lines, satellite), decoding the data from the gage (different gages send data in different formats), developing gross quality control checks (ie. making sure a temperature gage doesn't report 400 degrees), etc....

UDot had put in the request to have this gage added and some others to the network a little bit ago. Looks like someone at the U had time to add the gage to the network.

This popped the idea in my head of maybe having UWA partner with someone to add wind gages (probably include a temperature gage too) to locations we ride. UWA could buy the equipment, install equipment and the partner could support the communication link. The NWS office here does this if the gage is at a place they need more information. Maybe Utah County Parks would be interested in a gage at Lincoln Beach. Just a thought.

john l

[joshgubler]

I've made this change to the UWA Windtalker. Does anybody still use the windtalker?

[whit]

John L,

Excellent sleuth work !!! And some good ideas about getting more anemometer readings (and temperatures) out there so the public can read them. To my knowledge, The MESOWEST is maintained by the U of U Dept of Meteorology, and specifically as you said, by the grad students. It looks like the MESONET is maintained by the NWS Salt Lake Office. Much of their information overlaps, but some are available only on one or the other.

The New Strawberry River station is known as UTPRT and the good old Daniels-Strawberry station is DSTU1. If you click on the DSTU1 on the Mesowest, the hourly readings will come up. Replace the DSTU1 with UTPRT in your address bar and the hourly, actually every 10 minute, readings will come up for that station. You can go back and forth from the Mesowest to the NWS Mesonet specific web sites as long as you know the station codes. They also have exact station locations on the left side, click on the blue link, "terrain map". Also the camera, if available is shown on the left menu (on the Mesowest).

UDOT also has some good info and cameras. Keeping in touch with the U of U Meteorology Grad students, and / or partnering with another entity are great ideas. If we can get in the loop with, U of U Met, NWS, and UDOT to implement transfer of information, all the better. John, let me know if I can help.

Whit G