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Storm clouds are gathering on the federal-funding horizon, so the advent of Mesonet a few years back was fortunate timing for Hawaii weather forecasting now.
While originally launched under a federal National Science Foundation grant, the Hawaii Mesonet real-time climate dashboard (hawaii.edu/climate-data-portal/hawaii-mesonet) is locally operated. University of Hawaii climatologists still hope for federal support but worry about budget cuts.
Hawaii had been one of 20 states without a Mesonet system. Having that corrected is good, especially as hurricane season looms.