University of Vermont Opens Weather Station Hoping to Fill Gaps in Flood Prediction
The 10-meter prototype will add rainfall and soil moisture readings in a radar blind spot, giving forecasters more lead time for floods and blizzards.
- On Tuesday, UVM opened a 10-meter tall extreme weather monitoring station in Lyndonville, Vermont, the first of roughly 20 towers planned across the state to fill critical gaps in flood forecasting.
- Vermont's geography, particularly the Green Mountains, obstructs the National Weather Service radar in Burlington, creating blind spots that left The Northeast Kingdom towns of Sutton and Burke vulnerable to flash flooding last year.
- Beyond rainfall, the tower measures soil moisture, data that Joshua Benea, associate director of research facilities and networks at the UVM Water Resources Institute, says will greatly improve flood prediction and provide communities crucial warning time.
- The Dam Safety Program and Vermont Agency of Transportation will use network data to inform water and road management decisions, while the station serves as an educational resource for Vermont State University students.
- Officials are currently procuring sites for the remaining stations to increase data density across the state. Stephanie Smith, deputy director at Vermont Emergency Management, says this expansion is essential for "reducing long-term future risk.
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A newly constructed extreme weather monitoring station near the University of Vermont campus in Lyndonville, Vermont. Courtesy photo A new University of Vermont extreme weather monitoring station opened in Lyndonville on Tuesday, the first in a planned network of monitoring stations to help fill gaps in extreme weather predictions and response. The station will be able to monitor the lead-up to major weather events like flooding or blizzards, g…
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