Saturday was a beautiful day...I stood in my friend Janelle's kitchen watching huge snowflakes fall while she and her husband served all our running friends fantastic pancakes. The conversation turned to local weather hero Mark Seely...we all love to listen to his weather forecast every morning on Minnesota Public Radio while traveling to work.All the weather talk got me thinking...
Kirk received a great gift from his parents for his birthday, an Oregon Scientific WMR-100 personal weather station. Kirk has been planning on setting it up once the snow melts and he can get up on the roof, but I got impatient and set it up this weekend instead.
One of the wicked-cool things about having your own personal weather station is that you can track the weather AT YOUR HOUSE through a site like Wunderground
So, after a bit of troubleshooting, I got our Personal Weather Station (PWS) sending weather info to Wunderground. Our deck is now officially known as KMNEAGAN12
Keep in mind, since Kirk and I live in a wonderland of sunshine and chocolate, the accuracy of the weather on our deck doesn't EXACTLY match what you'll find on the Wunderground website...we're pretty protected from the wind.
Once the snow melts we'll relocate the weather station to an area more exposed to the elements, like the roof, but for now enjoy the weather!
2 comments:
Wow, it may be that I'm a weather geek too, but that is the coolest thing. It will be interesting to compare the MSP weather to your weather and see how different the urban heat island effect is just a few miles south of the urban core.
i have the wmr100 to and i love it i have mine on an 11 ft 3.5 meter pole
and it is located to where it gets all winds and everything works well
i plan to get some of the additional sensors i dont have the software capable of streaming to wunderground but when i do i will be found in mckinney tx i love this weather station i will be expanding the parameters with the options for it including the uv sensor and 10 or most of the vast channel capasity
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