If you look over at the left side of this page under links, you will see "Our Weather Station" which links to a web page showing the weather at our house.
I have had the weather station sitting in its box in my closet since my days at Radio Shack. It was a major production to install it and I just had never gotten around to it. But since we moved to Lubbock it looked more and more desireable. The main impetus to getting it installed was Jean's desire to know how much it rained at our house. Because rain here frequently comes from storm cells moving through, it is possible for rain from a storm at our house to vary by over an inch from what is reported at the airport or across town. The only way to really tell is a rain guage and lots of people have them sitting on their fence posts.
But the weather station would bring real-time results right into the house, so I dragged the box out of the closet and put it up. I could read the temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and the wind's speed and direction on the little box. I had to push a button to cyle through from one function to another but if I hooked it up to the computer then I could not only see everything that is going on at once, I could see it graphed over time.
The software said that it could be posted to the net so Kirk tinkered around with it and now you can ask me "How's the weather?" or you can click our weather link.
Posted by apopheniac at April 13, 2004 09:15 PM