Climate monitoring in Sierra Chincua and in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is a task that cannot be put on hold.
On the initiative of Dr. Lincoln Brower, climate monitoring began in Sierra Chincua in 2005, and since 2008, Dr. Isabel Ramírez has been in charge of following up on it. In June of 2025, with funding from MBF, a new Davis weather station was installed at the foot of Sierra Chincua, on the premises of our partner organization Alternare. And this winter, another station will be installed at the same site in the upper part of the Sierra, which has been monitored since 2005.
These new stations will provide continuity to the historical data series and expand monitoring to cover a larger area. These stations allow for the monitoring of critical variables such as precipitation, temperature, wind direction and speed, humidity, and solar radiation, which enable the identification, characterization, and modeling of climate anomalies, meteorological droughts, seasonal changes, extreme hydrometeorological events, changing trends, and more.
The information generated by this Chincua station has been relevant in several scientific articles, technical reports on extreme weather events that have affected Sierra Chincua in the last two decades, and several undergraduate and graduate theses. Real-time information from the new station located in Alternare, with funding from MBF, can be found here.
The box below shows current weather conditions from the weather station.