Originally
published
by
the
Daily
Bulletin.
In
February
2023,
the University
of
Waterloo
Weather
Station celebrated
25
years
of
taking
the
region's
temperature.
On
Thursday,
May
18,
the
Weather
Station
will
celebrate
the
anniversary
with
an
open
house
at
the
station
and
an
official
renaming
ceremony.
The
station
will
be
renamed
the
'Eric
D.
(Ric)
Soulis
Memorial
Weather
Station.'
Professor
Ric
Soulis, a
longtime
Waterloo
civil
and
environmental
engineering
professor
who
passed
away
suddenly
in
2018,
was
the
original
driving
force
behind
the
establishment
of
the
weather
station
more
than
25
years
ago. In
mid
1997,
the
equipment
for
the
Climatological
Station
was
provided
to
the
University
of
Waterloo
by Meteorological
Service
of
Canada,
a
division
of
Environment
Canada.
The
station,
which
began
operating
in
February
1998, is
operated
by
the
Waterloo
Hydrology
Lab
in
the
Department
of
Civil
and
Environmental
Engineering
and
is used
for
teaching
and
research
purposes.
It
is
regularly
relied
on
by
the
community
for
weather
data.
The
station's
coordinator,
Frank
Seglenieks,
maintains
a
blog that
provides
meterological
rundowns,
summaries,
updates,
and
runs
the
annual
Weather
Station
Contest where
you
can
guess
the
exact
date
and
time
that
the
mercury
will
climb
to
20
degrees
Celsius
every
year
(This
year
a
temperature
of
20.3
°C
was
reached
at
at
12:15
p.m.
on
April
11,
and
the
winner
was
Jeremy
Karm).
The
station
is
located
beside
Columbia
Lake
on
the
north
campus
of
the
University
and
is
accessible
from
Westmount
Road
North.
Civil
and
Environmental
Engineering
invites
the
University
community
to
an open
house
beginning
at
3:30
p.m. on
May
18 that
includes
tours
of
the
facility,
and
the
short
renaming
ceremony
that
will
start
at
4:30
p.m. Cupcakes
and
refreshments
will
be
served. Register
for
the
open
house
online.
