Automatic precipitation and temperature reporting over a very-high-frequency radio system

Development of radio and electronic equipment for telemetering weather data from remote inaccessible locations has been greatly accelerated in recent years. In 1959 the Bonneville Power Administration completed the installation of an automatic precipitation-and temperature-reporting system utilizing standard detection devices, and including a unique telemetering and transmission system. This system was installed above the Hungry Horse Reservoir located on the south fork of the Flathead River in Montana. The Hungry Horse Reservoir, which was built by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1953, has a storage capacity of 3,500,000 acre-feet, of which nearly 3,000,000 are usable for power production. The Hungry Horse Project is designed primarily to increase system prime power on the U. S. Columbia River System and to control floods in the Flathead Valley in the vicinity of Kalispell, Mont., and on the main Columbia River farther downstream.