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Spring in NH Brings Blue Skies, Warmer Temperatures – and Wildfire Season
by Gino Devaney on
April 20, 2021
Gov. Sununu with Smokey Bear and N.H. Forest Protection personnel. Picture Courtesy of Governor Sununu’s Facebook Page
April 18-24
“Wildfire Awareness Week,” part of an effort to raise the level of public consciousness about the dangers of wildfire and its impact not only on New Hampshire’s forested landscape, but also the potential impact to homes, personal property and the state’s wide variety of recreational opportunities.
Unlike other parts of the country that experience their annual increase in wildfire activity in the summer and fall, spring is wildfire season in the northeastern portion of the United States, when dry grasses, leaves and pinecones, along with fallen twigs and branches, serve as potential fuel for a wildfire.
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.