LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A $1.5 million federal grant is going to enable Kentucky to develop a network of weather stations to improve forecasting.

Some 100 weather stations will collect such data as temperature, rainfall amounts and wind speed. The state now depends on 29 weather-recording stations, but forecasters said that's not nearly enough.

University of Kentucky Agriculture Meteorologist Tom Priddy said gauges in the new network, called the "Mesonet," will send five-minute readings, four times an hour to the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University.

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