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7 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:

That's weird there is a five county swath without frost or freeze headlines tonight. I guess I'm just going to hang out in purgatory to see if frost or ice appears.

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Did you already have a decent frost?  Once you have had one, the headlines ago away.   The zone forecast for Dubois says "widespread frost."

 

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For the Mason-Dixon folks:

It's official now, the Maryland mesonet is live. Today, the first of 75 towers was "stood up" in Clarksville, MD at a University of Maryland research farm. This was a project that started in April of 2021 and has accelerated from concept to design in a little over two years. The mesonet will serve several areas: public safety, operational meteorology, transportation, agriculture, and climate monitoring. Other goals of the network include K-12 science in the classroom, and energy management (wind/solar data). A couple of key points:

  • The website is now live, you may get a security certificate warning from your web browser, but rest assured the site is safe. http://mesonet.umd.edu/index.html 
  • Website design and content will continue to emerge over the coming months as more data and visualizations are developed.
  • The data from the Clarksville location is not visible on the website just yet. There will be a short quality control period before data is accepted and published online. Hopefully this will only be a few days to a week. Internal testing was better than expected, which is a good sign.
  • All data from the mesonet will be available to the public. As stations are added they will appear on the site once the previously mentioned control period is concluded. The National Weather Service and Mid Atlantic River Forecast Center will receive the data via their MADIS ingestion portal. You can read more about that here: https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/
  • Land use agreements for nine other sites have been formalized. Site work will be conducted over the next two months to get these sites operational before the real meat of winter sets in. If we are lucky, we could have the first set of sites coming online every 10 - 14 calendar days. This is all contingent on weather.
  • During the winter, the team will continue to scout new sites, sign new land use agreements, and develop a work plan for rapid deployment of technology into the field in CY 2024.
  • This is a big deal for the state. Long recognized data gaps will be closed and actionable information will be readily available 24/7/365.

 

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4 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

For the Mason-Dixon folks:

It's official now, the Maryland mesonet is live. Today, the first of 75 towers was "stood up" in Clarksville, MD at a University of Maryland research farm. This was a project that started in April of 2021 and has accelerated from concept to design in a little over two years. The mesonet will serve several areas: public safety, operational meteorology, transportation, agriculture, and climate monitoring. Other goals of the network include K-12 science in the classroom, and energy management (wind/solar data). A couple of key points:

  • The website is now live, you may get a security certificate warning from your web browser, but rest assured the site is safe. http://mesonet.umd.edu/index.html 
  • Website design and content will continue to emerge over the coming months as more data and visualizations are developed.
  • The data from the Clarksville location is not visible on the website just yet. There will be a short quality control period before data is accepted and published online. Hopefully this will only be a few days to a week. Internal testing was better than expected, which is a good sign.
  • All data from the mesonet will be available to the public. As stations are added they will appear on the site once the previously mentioned control period is concluded. The National Weather Service and Mid Atlantic River Forecast Center will receive the data via their MADIS ingestion portal. You can read more about that here: https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/
  • Land use agreements for nine other sites have been formalized. Site work will be conducted over the next two months to get these sites operational before the real meat of winter sets in. If we are lucky, we could have the first set of sites coming online every 10 - 14 calendar days. This is all contingent on weather.
  • During the winter, the team will continue to scout new sites, sign new land use agreements, and develop a work plan for rapid deployment of technology into the field in CY 2024.
  • This is a big deal for the state. Long recognized data gaps will be closed and actionable information will be readily available 24/7/365.

 

Thanks for posting this and (I think) being part of the mission.  It is SUPER easy to get a cert and change the site to a secure SSL/TLS based site.  Some companies will not allow any http only sites through their proxy anymore.    

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Just now, Bubbler86 said:

Thanks for posting this and (I think) being part of the mission.  It is SUPER easy to get a cert and change the site to a secure SSL/TLS based site.  Some companies will not allow any http only sites through their proxy anymore.    

Thanks. I was part of the core group that developed the project back in 2021. I can't wait to get more sites in the ground and have the data flowing in.

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