Keene native receives National Weather Service Award
By: Rick Krolak
Guest Columnist
Mr. Raymond Blegen of rural Keene, was recently awarded the Dick Hagemeyer Award for 45 years of service taking and recording weather observations at his farm south of Keene. The National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Weather Program (COOP) is truly the Nation’s weather and climate observing network of, by and for the people. More than 8,700 volunteers take observations on farms, in urban and suburban areas, National Parks, seashores and mountain tops. The data are truly representative of where people live, work and play.
The COOP was formally created in 1890 under the Organic Act. Its mission is two-fold:
-To provide observational meteorological data, usually consisting of daily maximum and minimum temperatures, snowfall, and 24-hour precipitation totals, required to define the climate of the United States and to help measure long-term climate changes.
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