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21/02/23 20:41 PM IST

World’s Highest Weather Station Rebuilt on Mount Everest.

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  • After the world's highest altitude was destroyed due to hurricane-force winds on Mount Everest, a team of scientists and Sherpa have again placed its new version atop Mount Everest.
About Weather Station
  • The team started reinstallation of the world’s highest weather station as a part of National Geographic and Rolex’s ‘Return to Everest Expedition’ in May 2022.
  • During this period, Tenzing, Matthews, and Perry were joined by 12 other Sherpa to install a weather station on the world’s highest mountain.
  • Previously, the weather station was located on Everest’s Balcony, around 400 meters lower than the new one. Notably, it was the first-ever terrestrial weather station that was placed above 8,000 meters.
  • It is said that the rebuilding of the highest weather station was imperative because it was collecting information that could impact the lives of around 1.6 billion people as they rely on freshwater from the region.
  • In May 2022, the team started cleaning up the destroyed Balcony’s weather station and assembling its upgraded version.
  • The weather monitoring system, powered by solar energy, is supposed to measure various meteorological phenomena like air temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure, change in surface height of snow, and incoming and outgoing short and long wave radiation
Source- Live Mint

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