The grant will help the county in paying the annual salary of Emergency Management Coordinator Marilyn Connolly.
Commission Chair Bill Novotny explains more about the grant.
The grant amount awarded to the county is for just over $40,000.
New weather station to assist with wildfire prevention
December 16, 2020WARREN The New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands, in cooperation with the New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game, has installed a new Remote Automated Weather Station at the Warren Fish Hatchery.
RAWS are self-contained solar-powered weather stations that provide local weather data, including air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction along with rainfall measurements, solar radiation levels, as well as fuel temperature and moisture. Data are updated on an hourly basis utilizing Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite transmissions. The data are used by fire prevention and management professionals to monitor and calculate daily wildfire danger.
A weather station that measures moisture in wood
A crew sets up a Remote Automated Weather Station at the Warren Fish Hatchery. Photo by NH Fish & Game.
A solar-powered weather station has been turned on in the North Country
that is focused more on the ground than the air, with the goal of
helping to spot and prevent wildfires.
Like many automated weather facilities the RAWS, or Remote Automated Weather Station, at the Warren Fish Hatchery records air temperature, wind
speed and precipitation, data that is uploaded via satellite every hour.
But RAWS also measures relative humidity, solar radiation levels and, most
A tool in predicting, stopping wildfires
A crew sets up a Remote Automated Weather Station at the Warren Fish Hatchery. The solar-powered station is one of five that gathers data to help officials predict wildfires. NH. Dept. Forest and Lands
Published: 12/14/2020 6:10:14 PM
A solar-powered weather station has been turned on in the North Country that is focused more on the ground than the air, with the goal of helping to spot and prevent wildfires.
Like many automated weather facilities the RAWS, or Remote Automated Weather Station, at the Warren Fish Hatchery records air temperature, wind speed and precipitation, data that is uploaded via satellite every hour.
A newly installed weather station at the Warren Fish Hatchery will help reduce wildfire danger, according to state officials.
The automated system is solar-powered and provides local weather data including air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, rainfall measurements, solar radiation levels, fuel temperature and moisture.
âData are updated on an hourly basis utilizing Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite transmissions,â the New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources said in a news release. âThe data are used by fire prevention and management professionals to monitor and calculate daily wildfire danger.â
The Warren station is the fourth permanent station installed in New Hampshire; one portable weather station is also in service. Together, they form a network that monitors daily wildfire danger factors from the North Country to the Monadnock Region to the Seacoast.