Mountain Studies Institute staff has built, maintains, and monitors three climate stations, two in San Juan County, in Minnehaha Basin and at Gladstone, and another in San Miguel County on the Telluride Valley Floor. These climate stations, which sit at about 10,000 - 11,000 feet, provide livestream data of weather parameters with 10 minute resolution.
We are proud that our climate stations are setup for online monitoring and that means that you can see the data as we know it. Click the link below to monitor the data for Minnehaha Basin, Telluride Valley Floor, and Gladstone precipitation.
Live weather data and winter monitoring utilizes telemetry, which includes FM radios and iridium satellites. We also dig monthly snow pits at the climate stations outside of Silverton to create a temperature profile, verify our Snow Water Equivalent, and collect an isotope sample.
MSI offers climate station design, construction, maintenance and monitoring services to a variety of organizations up and down the Western Slope, including ski areas, municipalities, federal agencies, and collaborative watershed groups.
For more information on this exciting work contact Haley Farwell at haley@mountainstudies.org.
