By Greg Knight
Rainfall data to be collected by city
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Roland Larsen, seen here with his weather monitoring equipment, recently turned over coverage of precipitation data to the City and Borough of Wrangell. Although the city will be taking over rainfall levels, Larsen will still continue to provide other weather and temperature data to the National Weather Service and the Wrangell Sentinel.
For more than 20 years, Roland Larsen has been collecting weather data for Wrangell at the Wrangell Weather Office, both at its former U.S. Post Office building location, and its current residency at the airport.
In the two decades Larsen has been at the helm of the office, he has reported temperature and precipitation for the Wrangell Sentinel, but recently, collecting the data related to precipitation in the borough has fallen to the city Public Works Department.
The National Oceanographic and Atmosphere Administration took possession of the rain gauge from Larsen last week – and provid...
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