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Texas Tech seeks landowners to host weather stations and three radars to close Hill Country coverage gaps
Summary
Texas Tech told Brown County commissioners it has roughly $24 million from Senate Bill 5 to expand the West Texas Mesonet, add three high-resolution radars and build a Texas-focused forecasting system; the university is seeking landowners willing to host stations or radar sites and offered negotiable five-year leases.
Brian Hurst, a research professor at Texas Tech University, told the Brown County Commissioners Court that Texas Tech received roughly $24,000,000 through Senate Bill 5 to build a measurement and prediction system to improve forecasting across the Hill Country and for the state of Texas.
"We received funding from the state of Texas through Senate Bill 5…to develop a measurement modeling system to serve the state," Hurst said, describing three project components: expansion of the West Texas Mesonet, deployment of high-resolution radar coverage for the Hill Country and a Texas-focused prediction model. He said the Mesonet currently operates about 176 10-meter…
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