CASE STUDY Oklahoma’s Statewide Mesonet The Oklahoma Mesonet is a statewide environmental monitoring network developed through the cooperative efforts of Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma. The mesonet is a bold, ambitious project to make timely and useful weather information available to the citizens of Oklahoma. The mesonet consists of 121 CR6- based automated weather stations that continuously measure an array of weather and soil instruments. An additional 35 mesonet-like stations in dense micronets over the Fort Cobb and Little Washita watersheds are funded by the Agricultural Research Service. Each CR6 stores five-minute data summaries and is polled every 5 minutes. Data are relayed from each remote station to a central process- ing site. This

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