A weather station mounted on Mount Ripinsky last month is the second planted on local peaks in the past two months.
A sophisticated, $175,000 station went up near 20.5 Mile Haines Highway in August, a high-elevation station aimed at monitoring rainfall and soil temperatures. It’s the first of its kind in Southeast Alaska.
Information it provides – including barometric pressure, wind speed, air temperature and relative humidity – went online last month and already is…
