The North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network has wrapped a $6.4 million, five-year grant project funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The grant, awarded in 2020, enabled NDAWN to either retrofit existing or build 85 weather stations in the Missouri River Basin of North Dakota. The upgraded network now provides comprehensive, real-time data on critical variables such as precipitation, soil moisture and snow water content. “This project has turned central and western North Dakota into one of the most robustly monitored regions for weather data in the world,” said Daryl Ritchison, NDAWN director.
