Weather Station

I've posted data from our weather station before but I'm not sure I've posted about the weather station. It's an Oregon Scientific WMR968 and we've had it for over 5 years now. Just before its first birthday the rain gauge stopped working but they replaced it for free, since then it's worked flawlessly.

The mount for it outside is made from iron pipe segments and bolted to the side of the house. I'm not super sure the wind readings are accurate, nor the temperature either (the temperature sensor is mounted in the shade under the overhand) but I get the feeling the hot air from the side of the house skews it a little. The rain measurements are spot on too (since we check them with a regular EZ Read rain gauge).

One day I'll get round to hooking it up to my computer and uploading the data to the weather underground. I've had an experimental version of it working in the past, I've just never run a serial line to the place where the head unit is.

More pictures in this gallery.

Rain Rain Rain

Hey check it out, if you're reading this at http://www.24351.com/ then over there on the right you'll see a little graph. That's our rainfall info for the season! I'll reset it July 1st and post summary graphs here. Not much going on, we've got almost 40 inches of rain so far this year. It's been much rainier than the last few years but still quite far off our record (60 inches).