– By Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques¹, Aston Chipanshi², Trevor Hadwen², Allan Friesen¹, and David Sauchyn³ –

Due to the continental nature of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, their weather and climate are characterized by extremes. With this reality, the Prairie Provinces should benefit from high resolution weather monitoring from an integrated weather mesonet. A mesonet consists of any number of automated weather stations with an average spacing of 1 to 50 kilometers. This station spacing is much denser