Northwest Missouri now has a new source for up-to-the-minute weather information, a University of Missouri climatologist said.
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“We’ve recently upgraded our weather station at the MU Extension office in St. Joseph to real-time status,” said Pat Guinan of the MU Commercial Agriculture program. “We’re now able to provide updated weather data every five minutes instead of only a summary of the day before.”
The station in Buchanan County joins 12 others in the university’s 25-station network that offer real-time information. A grant from the MU Integrated Pest Management program has allowed Guinan to upgrade 10 stations statewide.
“While the grant has allowed us to make the initial upgrade in St. Joseph, we are seeking a community partner to help with site support over time,” he said.
The St. Joseph station now provides real-time values for air temperature; dew point; humidity; wind speed and direction; peak wind gust speed; soil temperature at the two-inch depth under bare soil, corn residue and soybean residue; and soil temperature at the six-inch depth under soybean residue.
Summary information for the day – such as total precipitation and minimum and maximum air temperature – also is displayed by the station.
“It’s really a one-stop shop for weather information in the region,” Guinan said.
“The value of the weather station rises exponentially with the availability of the most current data.”
Visit http://agebb.missouri.edu/weather/stations/ to access links to all 25 MU weather stations, including the real-time stations at Albany, Brunswick, Clarkton, Cook Station, Green Ridge, Lamar, Linneus, Novelty, Portageville, Versailles, Williamsburg and Sanborn Field in Columbia.