New Weather Station in Northern NH to Assist with Wildfire Prevention
by Gino Devaney on
.H. 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.
The Warren station is the fourth permanent RAWS installed in New Hampshire; one additional 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.