The NYS Mesonet (NYSM) headquartered at the University at Albany (UAlbany) is the nation’s most advanced and largest early warning weather detection network and has 6 networks and total 212 stations. The mission of the NYSM is to serve the state of New York by providing the best meteorological data, the best products, and the best services possible with the goal of saving lives and property while building a smart weather economy.

The center piece of the NYSM is its standard network with 127 stations, measuring temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, pressure, precipitation, solar radiation, snow depth, and soil temperature and moisture and collecting camera images. The first NYSM site (Schuylerville, NY) was installed almost 10 years ago (August 9, 2015). The standard network has been fully operational since April 2018.

The NYSM pioneers at building the nation’s first and only collection of three unique sub-networks (profiler, flux and snow), which provide long-term, continuous and accurate measurements of the planetary boundary layer, surface energy budget and snow properties at distributed stations in NYS. In addition, NYSM also works with public and private sectors to build two micronets, New York Thruway and NYC Micronets.

The NYSM makes an impact across NYS through providing critical and timely weather and environmental data and products for weather monitoring & forecasting, emergency management, air quality, transportation, renewable energy, agriculture, forensic meteorology, insurance, hydrology, K-20 education. This talk will present history and overview of NYSM and highlight its applications to various sectors including helping emergency managers making critical decisions, farmers harvesting potatoes, researchers studying weather and climate, and general public obtaining real-time weather information on their “back-yard”.