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NYS Mesonet: First Weather Tower Installation

NYS Mesonet: First Weather Tower Installation

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Nicholas Wright


[♪Music Starts♪] Jerry Brotzge: “I’m Jerry Brotzge, the Program Manager for the New York State Mesonet. We’re in Schuylerville and we’re installing our first of 125 New York State Mesonet weather stations. Each installation takes about seven days to complete. The first day you bring in the equipment, the second day you dig the foundations and the third day you pour the concrete, and then you wait a couple of days. And we’re at the end of those couple of days. Today we’re actually building the tower and it should be completed by the end of today. A few days from now the meteorologist will come in and finish installing the actual sensors. It will be a 33 by 33 foot area and the tower is roughly 30 feet tall, and then we’ll extend our sensors up to what’s called a ten meter hight, which is the standard for wind sensing measurment. We’ll also measure tempereature at 9 meters, solar radiation atmospheric pressure, precipitation, and we also have three soil sensors buried at 5, 25, 50 centimeters deep. They’ll measure both soil temperature and soil moisture. That’s usefull information for farmers, for the weather service, for hydrological flooding warnings and, a lot of uses for that. This is a lot more complicated because we’re in New York, the winter climate is pretty harsh. And, so, we’ve had to make a lot of adjustments. The snow hight, so everything has to be higher, the solar panels have to be bigger, heating requirements of the sensors in the wintertime. So it’s a lot more complicated. This particular site, it fits our general configuration that we’re aiming for across the state. If you scan around this is a relatively flat field, away from the tall trees and the other obstructions. we’re fairly near the Hudson river here, so it’s a very good site.”

1 thought on “NYS Mesonet: First Weather Tower Installation”

  1. Nathan Reed says:
    January 2, 2019 at 6:55 pm

    Every idol object we inject into the ground especially with compressed concrete at the base will raise the firmament and stop the rains. We are fools.

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