Three new weather stations monitor landslide risk on Mitkof Highway

This summer, the Petersburg Landslide Warning Committee established three new weather stations to monitor weather conditions on the hillsides of Mitkof Highway —the area near residences where the potential for landslides is historically most likely.

After a presentation by the Sitka Sound Science Center (SSSC) in January, the group formed to develop a community-based landslide warning system inspired by a model used in Sitka.

The goal of the project is to have multiple weather stations collecting weather data, such as precipitation, wind and temperature, throughout each and every day of the ye...