2020 NEWA Annual Report for New York State Mesonet
The Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA) is a collection of online insect pest and plant disease management tools build to provide NY growers with short-term crop risk assessments. Each tool or resource uses real-time weather data streamed from 10 weather stations across the state and can be accessed at http://newa.cornell.edu. 2020 marked the third year of collaboration between NEWA, which is part of the New York State IPM Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension at Cornell University, and the New York State Mesonet (NYSM), part of University at Albany. A 2018 pilot project that linked 10 data streams from key NYSM locations continued in 2020. The following sections summarize NEWA digital outreach and impact among online users located within NY for the 2020 calendar year, based on internet service provider IP address physical location.