A new analysis by The Heartland Institute – the USA-based think-tank that has previously criticized mainstream climate science – reports that the official weather station at Reno-Tahoe International Airport records higher temperatures than a nearby reference station, highlighting how station placement and surroundings can influence surface temperature measurements.

The study, titled Global Open Atmospheric Temperature System (GOATS): What Was Accomplished in Reno, compared data from the airport’s automated surface observing system (ASOS) station with an independently operated reference station located about 1.8km away.

According to the report, the ASOS station is positioned between runways and surrounded by paved surfaces and airport infrastructure, while the reference station was installed on a grassy site designed to meet stricter siting standards.

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The Chongqing Meteorological Bureau is expanding the use of artificial intelligence and digital weather services as part of efforts to improve forecasting and warning capabilities across the Chinese megacity.

The bureau has reported deploying the Tianzi 12h (2.0) AI model, which provides hourly updated forecasts for the Chengdu-Chongqing region at a spatial resolution of 1km. The system forms part of a 0-60-day gridded forecasting network covering both weather and climate predictions. 

Authorities said forecasting accuracy for several indicators – including 24-hour maximum temperature, sunshine or rain forecasts, heavy rainfall and monthly temperature predications – ranks among the top five nationally. 

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R M Young Company will host a technical webinar examining the engineering and design principles behind its ResponseOne-Pro all-in-one weather station.

The webinar, titled ‘Advances in All-in-One Weather Stations: A Technical Deep Dive into ResponseOne-Pro’, will take place on March 24, 2026, from 5:00pm-6:00pm GMT / 1:00-2:00pm EDT.

According to the company, the session will focus on the engineering philosophy, measurement technologies and system architecture behind the next-generation platform. The webinar is aimed at environmental monitoring specialists and will explore design decisions intended to improve long-term reliability and performance in demanding operating environments.

The presentation will be led by Conor Byrne, engineering manager, and Gabe Denton, business development manager, at R M  Young.

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Kentucky Mesonet at Western Kentucky University has officially opened a new weather monitoring station – the 81st station in its statewide network – in Clay County.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Clay County Courthouse for the new station, which is located about 10 miles east of Manchester and which began transmitting data in March 2025.

The Clay County installation was developed through a partnership between the US Forest Service, the US Department of Agriculture and Western Kentucky University’s Kentucky Climate Center, which houses the Mesonet.

The new station builds on earlier soil moisture monitoring work conducted in the Daniel Boone National Forest, where more than 30 soil sensors were deployed across five sample areas.

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Vaisala is debuting its new, customizable software solution to share clear, real-time and operation-specific weather insights from automatic weather stations and sensors at Meteorological Technology World Expo 2025, which is taking place October 14-16 In Vienna, Austria.

The software, named Elements Lite, is said to be optimized for accessibility – providing live, customizable conditions from desktop, tablet and smartphone devices. It supports a variety of Vaisala’s weather sensors, including those measuring air temperature, wind speed and direction, visibility, barometric pressure, humidity and precipitation. Users can also configure alarm thresholds tailored to their specific operational requirements.

Elements Lite also integrates with Vaisala Elements Online cloud platform to share weather observations beyond the local network.

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President Trump has canceled a US$3m grant project for New York State’s advanced regional weather early warning systems (EWS) program.

Mesonet program

The University at Albany hosts NYS’s Mesonet program, a network of 127 weather observation stations around New York, with at least one station located in each of New York’s 62 counties, and laser technology to monitor the atmosphere.

The university’s Mesonet program was awarded a US$3m grant program in 2023 to support its Exploitation of Mesonets for Emergency Preparedness and Response in Weather Extremes (EMPOWER) program. The EMPOWER program is a partnership between academia, emergency managers and the federal government.

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The UNDP has installed 17 automatic air quality monitoring stations in the Aral Sea region to protect the health of more than two million residents and inform decisions in environmental policy.

Powering climate measurements

The new network provides 24/7 automatic measurement of key air pollutants: hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), ozone (O₃), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), ammonia (NH₃), carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), as well as fine particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10. The meteorological parameters it records include wind speed and direction, humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure.

To ensure the sustainability of the project, each station is completely autonomous due to their solar panels.

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The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has installed a new automatic weather station in the village of Horst in Limburg province, to measure temperature, solar radiation, and wind speed and direction.

The new weather station is expected to become active in 2025 and will replace the station in Arcen, which has been active since 1990. Before 1990, the weather station of North Limburg was in Venlo. The Arcen station measures various meteorological parameters. For some parameters, such as radiation and temperature, the measurements are increasingly influenced by the changing environment of the station. The weather station is sheltered by growing rows of trees and an asphalt road.

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The Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) has invested US$3.5m in Rwanda’s meteorological capabilities to rehabilitate three surface stations and install the country’s first upper–air (radiosonde) station.

Geographic importance for regional observations

This US$3.5m of grant finance is the second out of three SOFF phases. The WMO’s global Global Basic Observing Network (GBON) gap analysis in June 2023 indicated the need to improve one surface station. However, due to the country’s location in a severely under-observed and conflict-afflicted area, Rwanda was approved for additional SOFF support. This means rehabilitating three surface stations rather than just one. The country’s data collected and shared from the highly heterogeneous topography with several microclimates will contribute to improved numerical weather prediction.

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In collaboration with the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS) has hosted the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) Country Hydromet Diagnostics Stakeholder Workshop at the Centre of Excellence in Macoya, Trinidad.

Weather and climate services

The SOFF project is being implemented to close the weather observation and climate data gap and improve the observation network, which will contribute to the improvement of weather forecasting, climate monitoring and early warning systems for hydro-meteorological hazards in Trinidad and Tobago.

During the workshop, TTMS peer advisors and experts from the Finnish Meteorological Institute obtained information from key stakeholders for the Country Hydromet Diagnostics, the first phase of the SOFF project.

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