The Kentucky Mesonet at Western Kentucky University continues to grow its network of automated stations across the Commonwealth.
On Tuesday, the ribbon was cut on a new weather and climate monitoring site in Russell County near the community of Eli, about five miles east of Jamestown.
The station, which includes a 33-foot tower with instrumentation that measures air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, and solar radiation, will help improve weather forecasting and increase lead times for severe weather warnings in the Lake Cumberland region.
The weather and climate information is also used by farmers across the state, helping to optimize planting, fertilizing, irrigation, pest control, and harvesting schedules.
The land for the site along KY 1611 was donated by Russell County farmer John Adams.
Last year, the Kentucky General Assembly invested $1.75 million into Kentucky Mesonet.
The additional funding will allow for all Mesonet sites to soon be fitted with new webcams, with the goal of establishing at least one station in all 120 counties across the Commonwealth.
Source: WBKO
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