Queen Anne’s County has entered into a partnership with the University of Maryland and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to bring a new Maryland Mesonet weather station to White Marsh Park in Centreville.
The Maryland Mesonet Project is a statewide initiative designed to monitor rapidly changing weather conditions and improve severe weather warning times for residents and local decision-makers. The program’s goal is to install at least three weather monitoring stations in each Maryland county, and this will be the third station established in Queen Anne’s County.
This program gives us access to some of the most advanced weather data available. Real-time information helps our county departments make better decisions about field conditions, irrigation, and park safety, while also benefiting farmers, businesses, and emergency responders throughout the county.
Each Mesonet station records more than 170 data points every minute—including temperature, rainfall, wind speed, soil moisture, humidity, and solar radiation and transmits the information directly to the University of Maryland for analysis. The data will support emergency management, agriculture, transportation, and public safety operations across the Eastern Shore.
The 10-year land use agreement, approved by the Queen Anne’s County Commissioners, allows for the installation and maintenance of the station at no cost to either party.
The Maryland Mesonet Project is administered by the University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. More information and to see the data available, visit mesonet.umd.edu.