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Stepping Into Weather Nerdom

I have enjoyed Weather Underground for years. I have known about the ability to add personal weather stations (PWS) to their site for years. Well, it has finally happened. I bought a PWS. Recently, Woot  had one for sale at a pretty nice discount. It is an Acurite 5-in-1 weather station . I received it last week and set it up this past weekend. It is now reporting conditions to  Weather Underground  and you can observe the data collected from my backyard here . Temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, wind chill, heat index, "feels like," dew point, precipitation rate, precipitation amount are the basic measurements the instrument records. In addition to reporting data to  Weather Underground , there is a display console that is inside the house to display the outdoor conditions along with indoor conditions including temperature and humidity. There are apps that are available for both iOS and Android that connect to the weather station and displ...