MesoWest's 20th Anniversary!
January 1, 2017 marks the 20th year for MesoWest to provide seamless access to environmental data made available from diverse public sources.
Begun in the early 1990s
and referred to originally as the Utah Mesonet, MesoWest has grown from its initial focus in the early years on the western United States to cover environmental conditions throughout North America at over 50,000 locations.
MesoWest would not have been possible
over the past 20 years without the financial support from the National Weather Service, other federal and state agencies, and commercial firms.
We are equally appreciative of the willingness of so many from all sectors of the Weather Enterprise (government agencies, educational institutions, commercial firms, and the public) to allow public access to the information they collect.
Data flow in January 1997 was a little smaller than it is today
Here is the number of observations and stations that reported in the first hour of 1997 and 2007.
MesoWest's first hour
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Temperature observations between 00:00 and 01:00 UTC 1 January 1997.2017's first hour
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Temperature observations between 00:00 and 01:00 UTC On 1 January 2017And the many folks who made it all possible
including University of Utah staff members, grad students, undergrads, NWS staff and others.
Adam Abernathy, Ahmad Gorabi, Alex Jacques, Alex Reinecke, Allison Dugan, Andy Edman, Tim Hendrickson, Awais Ameen , Brian Olsen, Bryan White, Carol Ciliberti, Chris Galli, Clark Mercer, Cody Opperman, Craig Clements, Dan Tyndall, David Zaff, Ed Delgado, Erik Crosman, Ethan Greene, Graham Stork, James Judd, Jason Burks, Jason Stiff, Jeff Jenkins, Joe Young, Jonathan Slemmer, Josh Clark, Judy Pechmann, Kevin Nelson, Larry Dunn, Linda Cheng, Lloyd Staley, Luke Leclair-Marzolf, Maggie Schoonover , Mark Miller, Matt Lammers, Mike Splitt, Natalee Villa , Nate Larsen, Neil Lareau, Nola Lucke, Peihong Zhu, Raghvendra Singh, Randall Vowles, Randy Weatherly, Steven Lazarus, Will Howard, Xia Dong, Yan Zheng, Yang Gao, Zach Hansen
And of course, John Horel