Live data from Wells Reserve weather station
Scott Richardson ~ 2007-11-29
Near real time weather data for the Wells Reserve is now available. Give it a try!
The station, located behind the Coastal Ecology Center, has a National Weather Service identifier and is checked and serviced monthly by the reserve’s “SWMP Tech,” Jeremy Miller. The data is considered provisional, but goes through an automated quality assurance and control procedure before it is posted.
The System Wide Monitoring Program coordinates with the Centralized Data Management Office, a NOAA entity in South Carolina. The CDMO website lets you graph or download weather data, plus water quality data, from Wells and all other reserves in the system.
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Is the area around the Laudholm Farm in Wells, Maine considered to be part of the Webhannet River Marsh?
Charron Lisnik 2007-12-10 #Partly. The Webhannet is adjacent to the historic farm as it slopes to the south. Looking to the east from the cluster of buildings you see the Little River estuary (through the trees). The Barrier Beach Trail forms a dividing line between the marshes. (Before the dike was put in, decades ago, the marshes would have been somewhat mixed.)
It was important at the time of the Wells Reserve’s designation that the site would include two estuaries, providing a pair of marsh systems that could be contrasted—the relatively pristine Little River and the more impacted Webhannet.
Scott Richardson 2007-12-10 #