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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 display all of the information as well as a webpage .

At first I put regular alkaline batteries in the system, even though the documentation recommended lithium. Those batteries died in about 48 hours. Now with new lithium batteries in place, I hope the station stays operational much longer.
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