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Friday, November 20, 2009

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In late October, wildfires ravaged 800 square miles in Southern California, claiming 10 lives and nearly 2,200 homes. Weather played a key role in fighting these fires. Fire weather meteorologist John Snook is the Predictive Services program manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service in Northern California. Snook was deployed in the south to aid firefighting efforts. What weather monitoring system were used during the Southern California wildfires? For the Southern California fires we mainly monitored an array of [remote automated weather stations]. These are stand-alone weather-observing platforms that transmit their data to a satellite, which ...

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