>Are weather stations that contribute to NOAA operated by the volunteer public, kind of like Weather Underground? This would provide extremely poor data. A lot

>Are weather stations that contribute to NOAA operated by the volunteer public, kind of like Weather Underground? This would provide extremely poor data. A lot of people on Wunderground are running ~$100 Chinese weather stations that don't have proper radiation shielding, dubious barometers, and poor anemometers. While they're perfectly fine for hobbyists and accurate to some degree, a volunteer network for climate data would give non-scientific results.