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…