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Guys. I've finally got my weather station online. I don't have the anemometer (measures wind) set up yet because that involves installing a pole on the top of my two storey house's roof, and I just got the station a couple days ago. I plan on having it installed by the end of the weekend.
Anyway, here goes my first attempt at cutting and pasting code to display the current data. As soon as I get enough data uploaded, you'll be able to find me on weatherunderground.com. My station will be the one called North Allandale and should be listed in a list of stations for Austin, TX or the zip code 78757.
And here is a link directly to my weatherunderground site. As you can see from the charts, I've only just got online with it. The wind speed and direction are from my blowing the anemometer right next to me.
I'm going to blow it again, just so you can see. Let's see how fast I can blow.
Victor's weather stationCool!
I caught you gusting at 10mph ;)
Being into meteorology and electronics, something I've been wanting to do is design and build a home weather station.
- Oren
I'm glad someone saw that. I got very lightheaded doing that. For some reason (maybe the unit being too close to the console), it didn't register right away, so I had to keep blowing for about half a minute.
What kind of weather station is it? I'm looking for one that
will wirelessly connect to my pocket pc (Ipaq HX2495 Bluetooth/Wifi), also record to an Excel spreadsheet and
post to a web site.
Or maybe post to an Access file?
It's a Davis Vantage Pro2. For descriptions of what is out there, try:
http://www.weathermatrix.net for hardware, software, forums, etc.
http://www.weatherforum.net/reviews.html for software reviews.
Does it not take a weatherman to know that the wind blows for us?
James
Excellent !
Having spent 12 years as a USAF Meteorologist, that has been on my list of "Things-I-want-to-do-someday"...although this time of the year in the desert, you hardly need instruments to tell it is HOT !
Yesterday was 118 (but a bit nippy in the shade at 104) HA!
It may have been functional before, but it wasn't placed appropriately (beside the house). Now it's 40 feet up, mounted on the highest point of the house, which is 28 feet tall, so it's 12 feet above the peak of the house. I could put it as high as 15 feet (the pole extends from 8 to 16 feet and is mounted a foot below the roof's peak), but I think local regs limit the height to 40 ft.
