Serving the Northern Illinois University Community for over 50 years! |
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NIU's Department of
Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences is home to a National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative
Weather Station. The DeKalb-NIU station has been operating on NIU
grounds since 1966 (now located west of Anne Glidden Road near the
Barasema Alumni Center). Prior to that, the station operated
in Sycamore (five miles northeast of DeKalb) from 1888-1965. Combined, this
represents a climate record that exceeds 115 years -- important in terms
of understanding regional climate variability. The Coop operates three Davis weather stations that continually transmit data to the NWS and over 400 different user organizations through the Citizen Weather Observer Program. In addition, daily observations of temperature (maximum and minimum), precipitation, snowfall, snow cover, soil temperatures, and evaporation (April 1 to October 31) are made by a student weather observer each day at 7 am, which are then transmitted to the NWS. |
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NIU Weather Phone (815) 753-1623 Includes yesterday's climate information and the forecast for DeKalb and vicinity. Updated daily by 8 am. |
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