Mike Walker, fire protection forester with the Division of Forestry and Wildlife, holds a full radiation sensor while working on a remote automatic weather station in Lahaina on Sept. 11. The sensor ...

Stations vary, but the majority are tripods that stand about 10 feet tall. (Courtesy of the Mount Washington Observatory) Until recently, the Mount Washington Observatory had about 17 remote weather ...

DETROIT — For apple growers like Abby Jacobson, making or losing money depends as much on what they don’t do as what they do. So when data from Michigan State University’s high-tech weather monitoring ...

Mount Washington, as seen from Wildcat ski area. This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its ...

A family of bears couldn’t resist using a remote weather system as their personal playground in Alaska, a photo shows. BLM Alaska Fire Service on Facebook A remote weather station in Alaska “kept ...

A remote weather station in Alaska “kept going offline” and no one could figure out why — until a game camera revealed the unexpected culprit, officials said. As it turns out, a mama bear and her cubs ...