3 February 12
Weather Station
We’ve had a hankering to have our own weather station for a while so recently we finally took the plunge, ordered one, and last weekend I set it up next to the veggie garden. Looking at the displays and graphs on the console in our bedroom of temperature, humidity, dew point, wind speed, wind direction, and barometric pressure has become a frequent ritual. It’s fun watching the anemometer cups spin which they do readily even in the gentlest of breezes. It gets one pondering local meteorological phenomena — for instance the station said that the minimum temperature last night was 36 degrees F, yet there was frost on top of the car. That’s radiative cooling for you. Maybe someday we’ll put the station on the net as part of the Citizen Weather Observer Program, but there’s no shortage of weather stations around Davis so that can wait. If we’d only get some rain now! (we’re at about half normal rainfall for the water year).
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Weather Stations serve their purposes for home, outdoor use and indoors as well. Most businesses are purchasing weather stations especially now with the ever changing weather conditions we have each day. With the over-all weather pattern across the country changing each day we all need a weather station around. I do sell them on my website at www.weathermonitorsplus.com as well as weather meters, weather radios and weather gps. Thanks for sharing your weather station – it does the work.