A Longton man is to receive an award from the National Weather Service out of Wichita. Longtime Longton resident Leo Noland has been recognized by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration for 40 years of service with the Cooperative Observer Program and will be presented with an award on November 2nd in Longton. Observers like Noland are invaluable to NOAA as they enable them to forecast and process warnings and help show a bigger picture of how we are affected by the weather. According to NOAA, there are over 11,000 volunteer observers across the globe that help make NOAA one the of most accurate weather predictors in the world.
