Twenty-five.

That's the number of confirmed tornadoes reported across New York this season. While folks couldn't really predict that number heading into the summer, they can prepare.

And part of that preparation happens in facilities in New York state, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pushing to get experts more funding.

“For many communities here in Central New York and in upstate New York, the past month has been like a scene out of the movie Twister," Schumer said Monday.

From Buffalo to Syracuse and down to the Hudson Valley, swaths of the state were hit by tornadoes this month, sometimes leaving severe damage in its wake, like in Rome.  

“Over 20 upstate tornadoes in upstate in just this month," Schumer said. "Ten of them were in one day."

As the climate continues to change, experts say the weather events are happening more frequently.

“So it is really important that our weather forecasting be top notch," he said. "We need to know when these things happen. The good news is there is new technology that allows us to forecast weather very more, very more, much more accurately and much more quickly.”

It’s called Mesonet. 

“Mesonet is a network of weather stations that have been produced here or built in New York since hurricane Sandy hit the state in 2012," said Dr. Samuel Mukasa, the executive vice president of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).

Schumer is calling for $30 million in federal funding for the National Mesonet Program across the country. He says a good percentage of that will boost resources for it in New York.

“It measures various aspects of what we need to know about whether temperature, wind speeds, wind direction and that sort of thing," Mukasa said. 

The information is used for daily forecasting of weather and to build models for climate change moving forward. According to Mukasa, there are 127 Mesonet stations across upstate New York with one in each county. SUNY ESF runs a station in the Adirondacks. 

“The more instrumented the landscape is, the more you know, the more you learn about air movements and how these are likely to correlate seen to dangerous, extra, extreme storms," he said. 

The funding would enhance the technology used by Mesonet locations and increase the amount of stations in New York state. 

“You have them in different places," Schumer said. "That gives our weather forecasters much more information.”