About MRO Weather Stations
In order to develop information about the meteorological conditions on Magdalena Ridge we are collecting data from three locations on the ridge. These locations are at the 2.4-Meter Telescope site, the Interferometer site and a third site operated by NMSU. An alternate site, at Microphone Hill, used to be operated by Dr. Carl Popp as part of the Langmuir Laboratory Meteorological Station, Air Quality Group, New Mexico Tech Geophysical Research Center.
Each station records air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall and wind speed and direction. Wind chill and dew point are calculated using these measurements. Near-real-time information can be found under the weather pages on this website (below).
The 2.4-Meter Telescope and the MROI operate Campbell Scientific weather stations which includes sensors for air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall and wind speed and direction. Data is archived by the observatory and some of the data is available through WeatherUnderground.