Weather and agriculture data hub launched in San Angelo

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — The West Texas Mesonet marked the 25th anniversary on Monday, May 12, with the unveiling of the 168th station, which is located in San Angelo.
Started by Texas Tech University, the West Texas Mesonet project provides free real-time weather and agriculture information. This information is transmitted every few minutes to a base near Lubbock.
'This collects everything you normally see from like your weather observation post at the airport, but it also collects the soil,' said John Schroeder, the director of the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University.
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The West Texas Mesonet project is in cooperation with the National Weather Service and provides support and data.
'So, a whole bunch of different parameters that feed into all these different industries making decisions,' Schroeder said. 'So, think about when you're gonna hear about your crops, or when you're gonna plant them, or when you get to harvest them. Transportation services, if the roads are OK to travel on, these sorts of questions we contribute to all those answers.'
This is San Angelo's second station, located off Knickerbocker Road near Angelo State University. The other is off Highway 87 near OC Fisher Reservoir.
There are stations throughout West Texas, the Panhandle and New Mexico.
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