R.M. Young Company

09/04/2026

Happy Labor Day from all of us at R.M. Young.

Today we're thinking about the people who build things: the engineers who design our instruments, the assemblers who build every wind monitor by hand, the service techs who keep them running, and the admins who keep the whole operation moving.

For over 60 years, our work has been rooted in hands-on craftsmanship. Every propeller, every bearing, every circuit board passes through someone who cares about getting it right.

So today, we are grateful for the people who make things work. We couldn't do this without you.

To celebrate, our team is taking a much-deserved day off. We hope you have a fun and safe holiday!

09/03/2026

Snow season is coming—and the decisions you make before the first big storm can shape the quality of your data all winter long.

Join us for Data in Action: Applications Shaping the Future of Snow and Water Science, a live webinar featuring guest speaker Hans-Peter Marshall, Professor of Geophysics at Boise State University.

We’ll explore how snow monitoring is being used across avalanche forecasting, water resources, transportation, recreation, and research, along with real-world lessons from deploying instrumentation in demanding field conditions.

You’ll also hear from our own Conor Byrne and Gabe Denton as they connect snow science, field measurement, and practical applications.

Tuesday, September 22, 2026
1:00–2:00 PM EDT

Register here: ttps://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7711375781093593183

09/02/2026

We're very excited to be live at T&D World in Orlando this week alongside Western Weather Group, Inc! Stop by and say hi to Chris Arends, Jeff Gawrych, Matt Wanink, and Brent Register in Booth #419 to chat about weather stations, sensors, asset-level data, and more.

Plus test your wind knowledge for a chance to win a FREE Wind Monitor—a $1,249 value!

08/31/2026

Not all snow is the same, so SNOdar is designed to take your precise location into account.

SNOdar's readings are calibrated to the snow classification selected for a given site, and that depends on things like climate, elevation, and typical snowpack conditions. A dry alpine snowpack behaves differently than a wet maritime one, and your setup should reflect that difference before the season gets going, not after.

So we built a tool to make it easy. Drop a pin on your site, or enter coordinates directly, and get a snow class recommendation based on exactly where you are located: https://www.youngusa.com/snow-class-selector/

08/27/2026

Please join us in welcoming Ryan Matt to the R.M. Young team as our new Technical Sales Manager!

Ryan brings a really unique mix of atmospheric science, military experience, and hands-on industry expertise to the role. He's a Penn State grad in Meteorology and earned his MBA from the University of Colorado. Between 2012 and 2019, he served as a weather forecaster with the Air National Guard, including a tour in Afghanistan from 2015 to 2016.

From there, Ryan spent the next several years at Range Generation Next conducting rocket launch wind analysis for payload trajectory settings and inertial load pre-tests, followed by four years at Radiometrics as Customer Success Director, supporting customers across the globe with installations, maintenance, support, and follow-on sales. Most recently, he served as technical expert and sales manager for WindCube renewable energy sales across North America at Vaisala.

Outside of work, Ryan enjoys skiing, hiking, tackling house projects, and spending time with his wife and two kids.

That's a lot of hard-earned expertise in weather instrumentation and customer relationships, and we're excited to have him on board. Welcome to the team, Ryan!

08/25/2026

Only 67 days, 11 hours until November 1st and the kickoff of snow season for most locations (how did summer go so fast?). That means you have until then to get your snow sites ready for the season. No pressure.

To help with the decision, we put together a field guide to choose with confidence, including the specs that actually predict performance, the questions worth asking a vendor, and a rubric to compare options side by side.

Check it out, and let us know if you have any questions on implementation: https://www.youngusa.com/blog/snow-depth-sensor-selection-guide/

The specs that predict snow depth sensor performance, the questions to ask vendors, and a rubric to compare options side by side.

08/21/2026

Please join us in welcoming Brent Register as R.M. Young's new Sales Director - Americas!

Brent's story in this industry goes back over a decade, starting in environmental monitoring sales with YSI in 2015. Since then, he's built a career around some of the most respected names in the space—FTS, OTT Hydromet, In-Situ, and Vaisala—picking up deep application knowledge in both hydrological and meteorological monitoring along the way.

Brent focuses on understanding customer needs and delivering effective technical solutions, an approach that will serve him well as he deepens relationships with our top customers across the Americas, making sure they have a trusted partner who understands their applications inside and out.

We're excited for what Brent brings to R.M. Young and to the customers he'll be working closely with. Welcome to the team, Brent!

08/19/2026

Wildfire mitigation has changed vegetation management from a calendar-driven task into a daily, data-driven decision — and nowhere is that clearer than in Liberty Utilities (CalPeco Electric)'s Lake Tahoe territory.

In a new case study written by our longtime partner Western Weather Group, Liberty's vegetation management and wildfire prevention teams share how they built a hybrid program—pairing a fixed three-year inspection cycle with LiDAR remote sensing and real-time, condition-based response.

The variable that matters most on the worst days? Wind. Every station in Liberty's network, deployed by WWG and instrumented with R.M. Young wind sensors, feeds fire-danger indices and gives Liberty's team the field-level data to pre-position crews, defend proactive power shutoff decisions to regulators, and understand what's "normal" versus a genuine concern across their system.

It's a great example of what our decades-long partnership with Western Weather Group delivers in the field: field-hardened instrumentation paired with the deployment and interpretation expertise utilities need to put weather data to work.

Read the full case study: https://www.youngusa.com/blog/liberty-tahoe-case-study/

Drawing on industry expertise from Jeff Gawrych, Utility Solutions Advisor at WWG, this article explores how Liberty Utilities (CalPeco Electric) LLC (“Liberty”) uses real-time data from R.M. Young Company and Western Weather Group to modernize vegetation management. Originally published and wri...

08/18/2026

A couple weeks ago, our team headed out to a Traverse City Pit Spitters game to celebrate hitting the first half of the year out of the park. It's easy to get heads-down in the day-to-day, so we made a point to step back, get families, friends, and colleagues together, and enjoy some good food, good company, and a game played under about as perfect a Traverse City evening as it gets. Great way to celebrate a strong first half!

08/10/2026

We're thrilled to announce that for the first time ever, we're partnering up with Western Weather Group, Inc at T&D World Live 2026 from September 1-3. Western Weather will be bringing their unmatched expertise of utility weather networking, and we'll be bringing a full weather station for you to see, touch, and feel.

We're also giving away a FREE Wind Monitor! Stop by booth 419 for your chance to win!

Learn more or book a time to chat with us at the show: https://www.westernweathergroup.com/blog/td-world-live-2026

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