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Weather
Stations
Avondale
Buena Vista
Canon City
Colorado Springs
Fountain
Fowler Golf Course
Holly
NW Holly
Howard
La Junta
Lamar
NE Lamar
S Lamar
SW Lamar
Las Animas
Penrose
Pueblo
Rocky Ford Ark Val RC
Salida
Vineland
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Welcome
To The SECO Water Wise Website |
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Southeastern
Colorado Water Conservancy District, Colorado State
University Arkansas Valley Research Center with funding
from the Bureau of Reclamation have developed this
web site to provide information about the value of
efficient agricultural water-management practices
and technology as well as practical guidance about
their implementation. Due to improved irrigation technologies
and innovative on-farm water-management practices
the potential for agricultural water-use efficiency
has increased significantly in recent years. These
efficiencies have been developed in response to water
shortages, competition for limited supplies, increasing
costs, and other factors. |
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We need cooperators! Help us conduct a validation and demonstration project in the Arkansas Valley to improve and promote the COAGMET weather data among irrigating farmers in this region. For information, please contact Jean Van Pelt, SECWCD Conservation Outreach Coordinator 719-948-2400, jean@secwcd.com or Troy Bauder, CSU Extension Water Quality Specialist, 970-491-4923, troy.bauder@colostate.edu |
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Please
click on the name of the weather station you are
interested in to gain access to weather information
links. |
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The
Colorado Climate Center operates a network of
remote, solar powered, automated weather stations
throughout Colorado. The weather station network
in southeastern Colorado is currently composed
of 13 stations.
The weather stations are used to gather weather
data to calculate agricultural crop water use,
station sites are selected to ensure readings
representative of crop field conditions. All
other stations are sited over irrigated areas
of urban turf grass. The stations are operated
year-round and each station collects air temperature,
relative humidity, wind speed and solar radiation
data. The collected data is used to calculate
reference evapotranspiration (ETR) on a daily
basis using the ASCE standardized Penman-Moneith
combination equation for both alfalfa and turf
grass. Precipitation, wind direction and soil
temperature are also collected. |
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