12-21-2015, 12:28 PM
Beejee: My system used to be a 5-gallon bucket. Now it is the Accu-Rite Professional Weather Center, Model 02064C, purchased a month ago at Costco.
PunaMauka2: What can I say. I'm moving up in the world. This unit is however just nailed to a 2x4 that is in turn nailed to my eave.
This unit measures wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall outdoors as well as air temperature and RH indoors. The outdoor sensor package and the indoor display are wirelessly connected, which is a problem for me since I live in a steel box. Reception is apparently good enough if I hang the indoor display from the frame of the window over the door with the sensor on the eave just above. You have to look up towards the ceiling to read it but it works. The system claims to forecast the weather but I don't think I'll bother keeping track of that.
As for data collected so far, RAIN, almost 5" in 2 days. The bucket could have told me that. High of 79 and low of 60, RH mostly in the high 90s. Average wind speed 4 mph from NE. Moon waxing gibbous (needed the system for that as I haven't seen the sky in a while). Get this: CHANCE OF RAIN! Worth every penny just for that.
PunaMauka2: What can I say. I'm moving up in the world. This unit is however just nailed to a 2x4 that is in turn nailed to my eave.
This unit measures wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall outdoors as well as air temperature and RH indoors. The outdoor sensor package and the indoor display are wirelessly connected, which is a problem for me since I live in a steel box. Reception is apparently good enough if I hang the indoor display from the frame of the window over the door with the sensor on the eave just above. You have to look up towards the ceiling to read it but it works. The system claims to forecast the weather but I don't think I'll bother keeping track of that.
As for data collected so far, RAIN, almost 5" in 2 days. The bucket could have told me that. High of 79 and low of 60, RH mostly in the high 90s. Average wind speed 4 mph from NE. Moon waxing gibbous (needed the system for that as I haven't seen the sky in a while). Get this: CHANCE OF RAIN! Worth every penny just for that.