Montana climate office adds 37 new monitoring stations
A Montana Mesonet station near Poplar on the Fort Peck Reservation. (Photo courtesy of Kyle Bocinsky)
The Montana Climate Office at the University of Montana has officially completed the 2024 Montana Mesonet build season, adding 37 new stations to its expansive and growing network of weather, snowpack and soil moisture monitoring instrumentation across Montana.
The Montana Mesonet is a cooperative statewide soil moisture and meteorological information network that supports agriculture, rangeland and forest decision-makers. The Mesonet operates two subnetworks: HydroMet, research-grade weather stations, and AgriMet, focused on precision agriculture applications.
There are now 177 active Montana Mesonet stations: 88 HydroMet stations (primarily east of the Rocky Mountains) and 89 AgriMet stations. The HydroMet stations report data every five minutes and are used to enhance weather forecasts, improve drought and flood prediction, inform water supply management and assist wildland firefighting. They also provide data to policymakers, ranchers, farmers and other Montanans.
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