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Your local storm forecast is likely based on weather miles away – we’re trying to bring it closer to home

  • Written by Chris Vagasky, Meteorologist and Research Program Manager, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageWeather apps might see that a storm is coming, but mesonets capture what's happening as it arrives with local real-time data.Patrick Emerson/Flickr, CC BY-SA

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