Maryland Celebrates Unveiling of its First Mesonet Tower

The Maryland Department of Emergency Management (MDEM) and the University of Maryland (UMD) proudly unveiled the first of more than 70 Maryland Mesonet towers on October 30th, 2023.
A member of the MKCREATIVEmedia team was there to video record the press conference and subsequent tower-raising ceremony.
What is a Mesonet?
The term “mesonet” (pronounced “meh-zoh-net”) is derived from the words “mesoscale” and “network.” In meteorology, a mesonet is typically a network of collectively owned and operated automated weather stations that are installed close enough to each other-and report data frequently enough-to observe, measure, and track mesoscale meteorological phenomena. Mesonet stations are also often used to measure climatological variables to model the biophysical processes of vegetative canopies. The automated weather stations are left unattended at field sites for extended periods to measure several parameters, and the data from the network of stations are transmitted to a base station at a central data processing center.
"The Mesonet will protect Marylanders from extreme wind and water harm by advancing emergency preparedness and the accuracy of regional weather forecasts. With an active State Climatologist Office and a fully deployed Mesonet soon, the University of Maryland will provide Marylanders insightful information on severe weather and climate variability and change that will benefit the state’s agriculture, tourism and transportation sectors, among others.”
--Sumant Nigam, Director of the Maryland Mesonet; Professor and Chair of UMD’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science; Professor in UMD’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
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