Personal Weather stations

[n8wrl]

I have a Davis Wireless Vantage Pro2 as well but i have a devil of a time keeping the rain bucket clean. It often gets a good dose of bird-do plugging the funnel and then fills with rain water instead of draining/registering it. It is not far from the garage so it's become a weekly habit to take it off and whack it on a pole to knock the latest cruft loose. There is always something in there.

How do you guys keep that out? I find the little quarter-sized 'screens' they provide don't do much and get lost. I've tried putting a screen over the top but I think that wicks off water that should be measured. I have never _seen_ a bird sitting on it but...

 

[Pushing_Tin]

I don't think I have adjusted the pressure since I installed the station. I probably used an Indianapolis reading, but that is 50 miles away. Thanks for pointing that out.

Barring any super deep low or high pressure systems I wouldn't expect to see more than a .05 difference between two stations only 50 miles apart.

For example right now Eugene Oregon has a pressure of 29.99 and Portland Oregon, over 100 miles away is at 30.02.

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

Sodamo: I've been to your town, a few years back. Isn't a weather station in Hawai'i kind of boring?

The way the last month has gone around here, we're all a little tired of weather. So if you want to get your money's worth out of that station, we could send you some of our extra.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My FIL has his own weather station, keeping it for 30yrs I think.
I have a little computer that keeps my temps and posts them to my web page along with a trend chart. someday I will add more to it then just temps, so it will be a home monitoring system. right now too much to do, too little time.

 

[sodamo]

Sodamo: I've been to your town, a few years back. Isn't a weather station in Hawai'i kind of boring?

The way the last month has gone around here, we're all a little tired of weather. So if you want to get your money's worth out of that station, we could send you some of our extra.

Hey Joe, ya ought to revisit :thumbsup:

Boring Then again, we've been amused watching a toad swim across the pool :laughing:

We've had about 74" rain YTD, but most of the state is in very much a drought. Mainland temps have been way too hot for my liking.

 

[lhfarm]

Barring any super deep low or high pressure systems I wouldn't expect to see more than a .05 difference between two stations only 50 miles apart.

For example right now Eugene Oregon has a pressure of 29.99 and Portland Oregon, over 100 miles away is at 30.02.

The Davis is reporting correctly (console reading same as local NOAA station 12 miles away), but the software is adjusting it. Looking into the problem. I think I added an offset to correct an old/cheap station and it may not have been removed when I replaced it with the Davis.

 

[Marveltone]

I can't afford a weather station right now, but I do have a neighbor with a herd of goats that he says are more accurate than any weatherman. He told me than when they go up the hill, the weather will be good, so we know when it's safe to do field work. When they are coming down the hill, we know that inclement weather is coming, so we'd best get off the fields.

I asked, "What happens if half of them are up the hill, and half of them are down?"

"Well," he said, "that means half of them are wrong."

Joe

 

[mantis]

Another Davis Vantage Pro 2 owner here.

Weather Station History : Weather Underground

or

PWS - Station Observations for KTXSUGAR4

 

[Wooddust]

I have been considering a weather station at my farm but frankly when I look online to study, the different sites often conflict or they have one model set up this way and another is different or has different add ons...Im easily confused!!

My farm is 40 miles from home and no phone so no internet but would love to be able to track the history when i am not there and load onto my laptop.

Is this workable and what units do you all recommend and what supplier do you trust the most to buy from/

 

[Ken45101]

I have been considering a weather station at my farm but frankly when I look online to study, the different sites often conflict or they have one model set up this way and another is different or has different add ons...Im easily confused!!

My farm is 40 miles from home and no phone so no internet but would love to be able to track the history when i am not there and load onto my laptop.

Is this workable and what units do you all recommend and what supplier do you trust the most to buy from/

The Davis units seem to hold up better than some of the cheaper ones.

It all depends on what data you want, but the Davis Vantage Pro II is pretty flexible and can take several additional sensors. I have wind/temp/humidity/rainfall on mine.

The units maintain some history but for detailed history you need to have a computer connected. They will hold the detailed history only for a short term. You might consider a low cost portable to leave at the farm with the unit.

Ken