How is the weather for a spread-out town ascertained?

In a major city the highs and lows and rain fall are measured at the airport.

Ok, good to know… and what about outside of major cities?

There are often weather collecting instruments around the town. There are instruments on our local High School and Town Hall.

In rural underpopulated NYS farm country, there are civilian volunteers who measure temp., barometric pressure, wind speed and inches of various precipitations. They then email or call our three network local TV stations.

And, I should add, that during bad blizzards, we can look out the window and see how much cow is sticking up above the snow.

Hope those rabbit ears keep on working! XXOO

@Cardinal: Don’t joke. One year the snowfall was so huge that I had to pay a guy to shovel off my roof. He dumped all the snow on my deck; so then I paid him to shovel the deck before if broke from the weight.

I was able to see out the windows; and for the nonce, the converter boxes are working very nicely with my roof antenna. I even get three weather and four religion channels now but sadly, still no nude wrestling