Home weather station?

[flying_silverad]

Anybody own one?

Like it?

What kind is it, and what would you buy/do different?

 

[cls]

I have a Davis wx setup, forget the exact model though. it has anemometer + direction, rain gauge, baro + humidity + temperature. generally Davis makes pretty high quality stuff - running fine for about 8 years.

when I installed it I calibrated the barometer to the local airport (~6 miles away) and it's tracked exactly ever since. I thought the computer download of data would be more fun than it actually is, YMMV as they say.

 

[brianc]

If you're looking for something permanent (not portable for the launch range)
checkout Weatherbug - https://www.weatherbug.com/backyard/default.asp?sourceid=4

I don't own one and I'm not associated with them, but one of their stations was
setup as a demo at work during the past hurricane season... Seemed to work
pretty good.

 

[TonyF]

Hi,

I have the Davis Instruments Monitor II setup.. Been running for over 10years so far.

- wind speed/dir
-temp
-humidity
-rain

Mine is the "wired" model. Davis has a new wireless version called the
Vantage Pro II I think. It's also available in the "wired" version also.

I also found the PC data management Software from Davis to be somewhat anticlimatic till I picked up a 3rd party version from Ambient Weather .


Able to now up load my weather data to WeatherUnderGround for easier
webaccess .


Since my flying field is spitting distance from my backyard, this comes in handy when deciding whether to go launch rockets or not.

TonyF