Personal Weather Station

I suppose I should give SkyWarn a try. Years ago, listening on 2 meters, I overheard a long-running argument over whether some hail was pea size or ¼ inch. These people were angry! Another episode that I remember was that of a ham (without a SkyWarn "diploma") who volunteered an observation as he was in a good location and no one else was anywhere near the storm. He didn't meet the caste requirements and was given a hard time because he volunteered.

This was a while ago. Perhaps I'll try again.

It's definitely a "clickish" group. I've heard similar comments on the air around here.

Looked into weather system a few years ago, and decided not to bother... But I did do the following:

First. Added Bookmark: US WEATHER RADAR LOOP to my phone & computer, and within program highlight my home location.

Second: (Seeing that I had Synology NAS) I added the 2 FREE Surveillance Station camera licenses it comes with, to 2 cameras I had....one on house looking at Yard, and one at Garage facing house and driveway turn-around...

Via FREE DS CAM APP and a VPN Like Login that does not need ANY open ports on my Router in order to connect.... I can connect to the 2 camera's Live Images from anywhere... (Via WIFI or phone LTE Data) For Free... It's part of Synology NAS features....

Now we live halfway up a mountain, and there are times when it's cloudy in the valley, but snowing like mad in the mountains.... or heavy storms in Summer, and the switchbacks to get home can become treacherous! This way we have the capability to see the LIVE weather conditions (rain, Snow,Ice, etc) from ANYWHERE... That allows us to be forewarned that we need to wrap up what we are doing, and get back home before roads become impassable!

This was done as an experiment over 4 years ago, and, This worked out so good... That I gave out access to other homeowner's in the development, who don't have cameras of their own, and they have found it as useful as we do!!!

Other than the price of hardware, this solution is Free

In Addition, via Motion Detect within the program, Motion Detected Video is saved on NAS in a way that after a (user adjustable) preset folder size is reached, oldest video files are deleted, so there is no maintenance required for the system, Whatsoever!!!

It's been almost a year since this 6 year old thread was updated.

In case anyone is still interested in weather stations, Davis Instruments is running a 25% off black Friday sale on many of their products:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGwHpQPntcDKqZZ...

Still pretty pricey but their equipment is top quality.

I would like one but having 3 different ones now I don' think i need another one. Also, a separate stand-alone rain gage.

I am still using my Ambient Weather WS-2000 and have been very happy with it. It is now 2 1/2 years old and I have had no issues with it at all. It requires very little maintenance. I clean the rain funnel and tipping spoon a couple of times a year and spray a little DuPont teflon on the top surfaces before winter to help the snow and ice slide off the solar panel. All the components still have the original Energizer AA lithium batteries. The main outdoor array containing the temperature, humidity, rain, wind and solar radiation sensors runs mostly from a super capacitor charged by the solar collector, so it uses up very little of the battery capacity. I also have a lightning detector and and additional outdoor temp/humidity sensor hanging in a tree. They run completely off the batteries (no solar panel), but so far still are using the original batteries. The color console is the wireless receiver for all the sensors and it is also the wi-fi connection to the Internet for publishing to Weather Underground and AmbientWeather.net. I have the console near a window. it is about 100' to 150' away from the outdoor sensors. I have had no problems at all with signal loss between the console and the various outdoor and indoor sensors. If anyone is interested in seeing my published Weather Underground or Ambient Weather pages, send me a PM on the POI Factory contact page and I will email the links.

I see that Ambient has the WS-2000 weather station like I have on a Black Friday sale for $239 (list price is $299). That's $50 less than I paid for mine 2 1/2 years ago.

don't have one,
now I want one

Maybe something like https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Backup-Uninterruptible-Securi...