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    Home » Articles » DIY

    The Allison House Weather Station Update

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 4 Comments

    A while back on GardenFork Radio I was saying how much I'd like one of those weather stations that sit on your roof and you can hook up to the internet.

    Then Allison House, a weather data company, sent us one. ( I like how this works )

    The Allison House Weather Station

    The Allison House Weather Station

    We assembled the weather station, which is an Oregon Scientific WMR968. It has an anenometer, wind direction, rainfall, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure sensors, which are all solar powered and connected via wireless to the central display in our house.

    here is the inside of the rain guage. always wondered how that worked

    here is the inside of the rain guage. always wondered how that worked

    This display is then connected via USB to our internet router, and bang - our super microclimate weather data in our yard is on the web and on my iPhone. We use WeatherUnderground to post the weather data, this site aggregates weather info from a ton of personal weather stations. You can search by zip code to see if there is a weather station near your. You can use the smartphone version of their site for remote check-ins.

    I installed this in 16F weather. fun.

    I installed this in 16F weather. fun.

    AND the best part is the graphs and historical data is collects. I can go to the site, and see graphs for the past 24 hours, past week, past month, etc. This has been good to have with our bees, as I can tell when the bees have probably been leaving the hive during the late winter, early spring. Its also great for gardening, when we have a few years of data, we can see the average frost date for our yard. One of our neighbors down the hill has a weather station as well, and I can check his now for frost dates , though his date will be earlier than mine, as he is lower in a valley.

    This daily graph tells me the Honey Bees were out in the afternoon. And its interesting to watch the barometric pressure drop.

    This daily graph tells me the Honey Bees were out in the afternoon. And its interesting to watch the barometric pressure drop.

    Temps above 50F means the honey bees are out working

    Temps above 50F means the honey bees are out working

    Hooking up the weather station to the net took a bit of work, it was not plug and play, but not too hard either. The enclosed instructions are good, and there is an active community of users online.

    A big thank you again to Allison House for providing the weather station. You can follow them on Twitter at http://twitter.com/allisonhouse

    Do you have a weather station? Let us know, be cool to compare equipment and uses.

    « The ground is still frozen, time to plant Peas
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    Comments

    1. Tim

      March 26, 2010 at 2:35 pm

      I have an indoor/outdoor thermometer/barometer setups that charts the last several hours barometric pressure so you can spot trends. Nothing as fancy as this. Pretty cool! Do they have any more they are giving away? 😀

    2. Eric Gunnar Rochow

      March 26, 2010 at 2:59 pm

      mbe if you start your own web show about whatever comes into your head... kinda like GardenFork.

    3. Tyler Allison

      March 26, 2010 at 3:25 pm

      Glad you liked it Eric!

      I have the _exact_ same weather station setup at my house.

      If you haven't already look into setup your base station to report to the CWOP (civilian weather observer program), you have to register with them and then login to your base station and include your "callsign". It's in the same place you setup weather underground on the base station. That way your data actually gets used in the NWS model runs and quality control checks.

      The AllisonHouse twitter account is really just for service outage notifications and what not so it will be boring for anybody but customers. It's more interesting to follow my personal account at http://twitter.com/quietlife4me

      Have fun!

      -Tyler

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