X-17 Meteorological Station

 is a location in the north of the Big Empty.

Layout
The entrance leads to a small office area, with an exit to a large warehouse. The warehouse has scattered Mr.Gusty robots patrolling the perimeter and various catwalks and metal staircases. The patrolling robots include a unique robot named Ironbelly. In the center of warehouse on a raised platform is a small scale model of Higgs Village and an attached lab. The lab has a terminal which allows you to start a weather test, which causes rain to fall on the model village. Once the test has been activated the dirt under the platform with the model village is washed away and is replaced by a humorously labeled "soggy duffle bag" with random loot.

Activating the Weather Test will also enable the fountain inside Higgs Village

To the right as you enter the warehouse from the office is an elevator on the east wall leading to the roof. The roof is guarded by several trauma override harnesses. On the roof is a large container with a table and several filing cabinets.

Notable loot

 * The unique Mr. Handy Ironbelly carries several unique Protonic inversal throwing axes.
 * Snow globe - Big Mt. Research and Development Center and mad Scientist Scrubs are found in the lab adjacent to the model village.
 * A map in the facility shows an unknown location, which could possibly be the Divide. Elijah mentions that Ulysses was interested in the X-17 Meteorological Station, and a terminal in the X-22 Botanical Garden mentions a experiment that went terribly awry near Hopeville. It's possible that Ulysses is interested in how the violent storms of the Divide came to be, and perhaps how to stop them.

Appearances
This location appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.