The Water Security Agency has installed new weather and soil monitoring stations in a dozen southern Saskatchewan communities.
The organization has invested nearly $600,000 dollars in the new stations which are located near Arcola, Candiac, Radville, Milestone, Francis, Quinton, Holdfast, Hazenmore, Mankota, Climax, Klintonel and Shaunavon.
Temperatures, wind, humidity, precipitation and soil moisture will able by tracked by the new stations with the information be made available to the public online. The data will be updated daily and archived every month.
Patrick Boyle is a spokesperson with the Water Security Agency.
“It’s (data) publicly available and we’ve communicated with SARM and it is available to any producers who need it and industry groups and whoever need be. We want to share this data so it can help with their prep planning from a municipal perspective that any more data that you have on some of these weather events and areas where it could support them and their decision making, we’re happy to provide that.”
The Water Security Agency invested nearly $600,000 dollars in the new monitoring stations.
Boyle says the new stations were installed in areas where gaps exist in the weather monitoring system.
Below is a link to the website containing all of the latest weather data from the new monitoring stations.
