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National Weather Service Honors Cooperative Veteran Observer


(L to R) Data Acquisition Program Manager William Runyon, Holm Award recipient Edwin Lundgren, Hydrometeorological Technician Joseph Baskin and Meteorologist-In-Charge Joe Arellano. (Photo: Courtesy of Troy Kimmel, Chief Meteorologist for KVET, Austin, Texas).

The Austin/San Antonio Weather Forecast Office has honored veteran cooperative weather observer Edwin Lundgren of Elgin, Texas. In a ceremony at the Elgin Kiwanis Club, Lundgren received the prestigious John Campanius Holm Award as one of the Nation's top observers in 2004. Lundgren has been taking weather observations in Elgin for over 52 years. A congratulatory letter from U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was also presented to Mr. Lundgren during the ceremony.

The NWS Cooperative Weather Observer Program has given scientists and researchers continuous observational data since the program's inception more than 100 years ago. Today, more than 11,000 volunteer observers participate in the nationwide program to provide daily reports on temperature, precipitation and other weather factors such as snow depth, river levels and soil temperature.





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