The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has renewed Mesonet contract for radar coverage As part of this contract extension, the National Weather Service (NWS) will maintain access to data from 13 of our supplemental radar sites. This data is currently used by 20 NWS forecast offices across the country.
«Access to low-altitude data may provide additional radar coverage for our forecasters,» explained Ajay Mehta, NWS Director of the Office of Observations. «Our ongoing evaluation allows us to explore the use of X-band radar data in our Radar Next program.”
Read more in our press release about how our data is making a difference on the national level: https://hubs.la/Q02Q8wW40