The Bondurant Weather Station has become a reality, thanks to the efforts of Roy McCleary, Stormwater Coordinator with the City, Lance Maffin, Science Instructor with Bondurant-Farrar High School, and the Earth Science classes. This project was made possible with grant funds from Monsanto (see our August news article here for more information) .

 

Students at Bondurant-Farrar High School needed a weather station to inform them of 0.5 inch rainfall events so that the Earth Science class would be able to monitor stormwater quality. This project also benefits the whole community, as the public now has the opportunity to use this weather station.
 

To access the weather station, you must have internet capability. Simply visit the Weather Station website at www.weatherlink.com/user/bondurant and you will view current weather conditions at Bondurant-Farrar High School. The link is also available on our City website, located under About Bondurant, Weather Conditions. The link will also be available on the Bondurant-Farrar School’s website.
 

We would like to thank the following people who helped install the weather station: Jon Hamborg, Lance Maffin, Roy McCleary, Ken Grove, and Pat Collison. A special thanks goes to Todd Stewart of Stewart Electric for donating the use of his bucket truck to install the weather station onto the High School building. Todd also installed electricity to the rain collector heater so that snow could be measured in amount of rainfall. Most people would say one inch of rain equals 10 inches of snow, but as most science students would tell you, it is determined by the amount of moisture in the snow. The rain collector heater allows for the measurement of that moisture.
 

Any person in the community is welcome to the information available through the Bondurant Weather Station. Please visit this new website and remember to save it as a favorite website for future viewing!