Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025

This bill officially puts into law a program run by NOAA called the National Mesonet Program, which is a nationwide network of automated weather and soil monitoring stations that collect data to help forecast things like droughts, fires, floods, and other weather events. The program can only buy data if it's cost effective and meets quality standards. The bill also requires that at least 15% of the program's funding each year go to state, tribal, private, and academic groups that want to build or improve their own monitoring stations, with priority given to remote areas and places that don't currently have monitoring equipment. NOAA must also set up an advisory committee of experts to help guide the program's decisions about what data it needs.

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