A statewide system of weather stations is expanding thanks to new funding.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln said Tuesday that it was able to add 21 new stations to the Nebraska Mesonet system this year thanks to $1.48 million in funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency and Lower Loup and Upper Elkhorn Natural Resources Districts.
That brings the total number of stations statewide to 94, said Ruben Behnke, manager of the Nebraska Mesonet, and he would like to increase that to 200 in the next few years…