A wide range of weather data for AST@RHO will be provided by The Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN) which is operated by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. FAWN by provides up-to-date weather information through a system of automated weather stations distributed throughout the State of Florida. Overall, there are four parts to the FAWN system: collecting data, transmitting it to the collection site, processing the data, and redistributing it to the end user. The data are collected at a 30 foot tower which transmits the data to IFAS. FAWN database servers maintained by IFAS Information Technologies receive weather data from remote stations every 15 minutes. Each FAWN site provides a variety of weather related data including:

Temperature (2 ft, 6 ft, 30 ft above ground)
Solar radiation (watts/ sq. m); an indication of cloud cover
Relative Humidity (%)	Dewpoint (deg F)
Wind speed: 15 min average, min/max gust
Wind direction; average, Std. Deviation
Barometric Pressure	Rainfall since midnight