1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Mesonet Authorization Act . 2. National Mesonet Program (a) In general Title I of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 ( 15 U.S.C. 8501 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 111. National Mesonet Program (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Since the initial establishment of the National Mesonet Program, a public-private partnership program, the Program has leveraged data collected by existing weather observation networks to— (A) provide accurate, real-time observations to support weather forecasters, emergency response, and all-weather sensitive activities across the United States; (B) address persistent impediments, identified in a 2009 National Academy of Sciences Report, From the Ground Up, to fulfill the need for broader and denser environmental observation networks to improve severe weather lead-times; (C) help achieve major improvements for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the broader American Weather Enterprise, as identified in the 2011 National Academy of Sciences Report, The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring; (D) increase the amount of non-Federal weather data available to the Federal Government by orders of magnitude