Meteorologists rely on automated weather stations across the country to report weather conditions once an hour. These sites are maintained by the National Weather Service and report conditions such as temperature, dew point, pressure, sky conditions, and others. Since they are automated, they can occaisionally be fooled. A family of spiders seems to have fooled one of these weather stations in San Angelo, Texas. Check out this statement issued yesterday by one of the local National Weather Service offices there....
UPDATE...JUST A QUICK FYI...SPIDERS APPARENTLY AT IT AGAIN...CAUSING THE SJT ASOS TO THINK ITS RAINING. TALKING WITH THE TECHS A FEW WEEKS AGO...THEY NOTED THAT THE SPIDERS INHABITING THE ASOS EQUIPMENTWERE BOTH LARGE IN NUMBER AND UNUSUALLY PERSISTENT THIS YEAR...MORE SO THAN IN ANY YEAR THEY CAN REMEMBER.
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