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Emi Smith, from left, Kasee Clark, Ryan Eldrige, Roger Hybner, Tom Allan, Maryse Bourgault and Shelly Green Pose for a photograph with the 100-year Institution Award National Weather Service presented to Northern Agricultural Research Center of Montana State University-Northern for 100 years of collecting weather data for Weather Service.
From National Weather Service
The staff at the Northern Agricultural Research Center at Fort Assinniboine was presented with a 100-year Institution Award from the National Weather Service in Great Falls for taking and reporting official daily weather observations.
The weather observations taken at Fort Assinniboine by the Montana State University research center are part of the official NWS climate network that consists of about 10,000 volunteer observers throughout the United States. The observations consist of daily maximum and minimum temperatures, 24-hour rainfall or snow melt, 24-hour snowfall, overall snow depth, moisture evaporation and related measurements.
Weather records from Fort Assiniboine date back to June of 1880 and the Northern Agricultural Research Center has been taking records at the same location since January 1917.
Presenting the award was Ryan Eldridge, NWS Western Region representative from Salt Lake City, Utah, and Matt Moorman, observation program leader NWS Great Falls.
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