Columbia Weather Systems

We are always excited when educators invest in giving their students hands-on knowledge of how weather works, how it’s measured, and how it affects them. South River High School in New Jersey does just that. Last year, the school installed a  Capricorn FLX Weather Station  on one of their buildings. The Climate Change Club uses the data to report hourly weather readings to the National Weather Service. According to their website: “This will make South River High School a weather hub for pilots to collect current weather conditions of our area. The information that the club collects will also be archived for climate change data.” Administrator Kamila Miazio added that the club “provides a weekly forecast, satellite imagery of CONUS, and severe weather updates. The advisor is working to teach students METAR code (the weather code that pilots use to see current weather conditions for the area), report an hourly automatic observation with the weather equipment, record the data and report i

Kelly Masell of North Star BlueScope with the Weather MicroServer monitoring screen. When equipment breakdowns happen during manufacturing processes, it’s important for operators to identify the root cause to prevent costly impacts in the future. Kelly Masell is a Package Engineer at North Star BlueScope , a leading supplier in the steel industry based in Ohio. He recently explained how data from an Orion Weather Station installed at the plant is used for their operations: An Orion Weather Station installed at the plant. “The system was configured to transfer data via Modbus TCP to an Allen Bradley PLC. This data is then trended in a historical program for data retrieval at any time. If something major happens in the plant, it may be weather related. We can look at the historical trends of temperature, humidity, winds, barometric pressure and more. Columbia Weather data could pinpoint if a weather-related data point was a contributing factor of why the breakdown occurred.”  Kelly adde

  Did you know that there are currently 88 large active wildfires in the US? ¹ With longer, more active fire seasons each year affecting a broader population, now is the time to boost efforts to protect public health and safety, optimize infrastructure, and plan more strategically. For comprehensive monitoring, our AQM Complete and AQM PM air quality monitoring systems can now detect PM1 concentrations from sources such as wildfires, traffic, and dust-emitting industrial facilities (in addition to PM2.5 and PM10). These robust systems offer best-in-class accuracy, simple deployment, and reliability over a long service life.