Weather Station

[Xenon]

Been asked to investigate weather stations. Jaycar have a Touch Screen Wireless Weather Station with USB:

http://www.<URL removed, see forum rules>/productView.as ... rm=KEYWORD

..for $149. Can anyone recommend this, or something else?

[Xenon]

oops, my bad

[Ian]

I have not used that one, but it looks good.

We just have a cheap $20 - $30 one we got from Dick Smith a few years ago. The outside temp sensor only worked for a month and the humidity sensor NEVER agrees with my "Wet and Dry Bulb" so I don't trust it at all!

I am very envious of the set up they have at Wollondilly Anglican College, down the road from where I live (wac.nsw.edu.au). If you go to their home page, they have a link to "Weather@WAC" where their weather station is linked live to the net. I can sit at home and get live information on just about everything. (Much better idea than going out into the cold in the morning to see what the overnight temp has been and if I need to wear a scarf.

Laraine, if you are listening, perhaps you could fill us all in on your set up?

Have a good weekend all

Ian

[Xenon]

just checked weather@wac, I want one too!

[Ocker]

It must be an anglician thing, Bishop Tyrells anglician (BTAC) college at Minmi has a brilliant on line system that I covert, (hello Sue) as well as Newcastle University & Williamtown radar is on-line as well so I will never get anything

[J]

We do the observations for the Bureau of Meteorology in our backyard at home.
Our weather station consists of separate wet and dry thermometers, separate max and min thermometers (mercury for the max). These are enclosed in a Stevenson Screen.
A rain guage nearby and a wind vane above, and the that's that.
And Yes, we do have to walk out into some very inclement weather at times to do the observations, but that's all part of the fun.
J

[Xenon]

Gaaaahh! JayCar binned the order cos we didn't pay prior to delivery and the special was for June only, now we gotta pay $199.

[Robb]

Hi All,

Ocker,

Sorry I did not see this until now..

I have a Davis weather station at home. Unfortunately it cost myself ca $2500.00 this is a damn good unit that measures Solar, UV, Barometer in and out, Temp in and out. Wind - Anemometer, and is completely wireless. I have two control panels, one linked to my computer and the other in the shed. I use the data to access yearly, monthly, daily weather patterns and it give detailed weather forecasts using all the sensors to accurately give predictions. It has been wrong a couple of times out of the 3 years I have had it.

Pricey though... Reccomended.

Cheers,

Robb.....

Bugger about the price rise though from Jaycar................