Weather Stations?

[artesianspringsfarm]

Does anyone else here use a weather station that synchs to the internet? I thought it would be really interesting if people had weather stations in their signature here. I really enjoy using my ambient weather 1200IP. Someday I will figure out tracking snow accumulation too but thats not so easy. Here is my station:

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-w ... =KNYRICHL2

 

[slick4591]

I've gone thru several $100 remote Accurite stations but none that synced to the internet. Told the wife after my last one conked out that the next one would be much more reliable and much more expensive. If anyone has suggestions I'd like to hear them.

 

[HDRider]

ASF,
Can you link to the equipment you have?

I'd like something like it too.

Thanks

 

[callmefence]

I don't even have a rain gauge anyone.
It either rains enough, not enough, or to dam much. Don't need a gauge for that.

 

[ga.prime]

The Climate Corporation has an application that will tell you how much precipitation you receive in any area that you designate. I have 3 rain gauges and in checking my gauge readings against The Climate Corporation's data dozens and dozens of times I can say The Climate Corporation is very, very accurate.

 

[HDRider]

The Climate Corporation has an application that will tell you how much precipitation you receive in any area that you designate. I have 3 rain gauges and in checking my gauge readings against The Climate Corporation's data dozens and dozens of times I can say The Climate Corporation is very, very accurate.

I use it, and did the same thing with the same conclusion. It amazes me. I do not know how it works.

 

[Bigfoot]

I to parked my rain gauge. I'm going to check out this weather corporation though.

 

[Bigfoot]

Climate corporation website refers to its customers. I'm assuming it's not free?

 

[slick4591]

I ran it free for a couple of years, then it stopped sending me reports. Since I had three different pastures being monitored and gauges on each one, I found there were discrepancies each rain event that I compared. However, the readings were usually within a quarter inch.

 

[Bigfoot]

The longest ongoing discussion I've ever been in involves the accuracy of a rain gauge. I contend they are not accurate. A side ways rain is not going to fall in the gauge, like a straight rain. My dad, brother, and the vet disagree.

 

[ga.prime]

Climate corporation website refers to its customers. I'm assuming it's not free?

The part I use is free, it's called fieldview. I guess there's other things you can pay for but I don't know what.

 

[ga.prime]

The longest ongoing discussion I've ever been in involves the accuracy of a rain gauge. I contend they are not accurate. A side ways rain is not going to fall in the gauge, like a straight rain. My dad, brother, and the vet disagree.

I agree with the vet, your dad, and your brother. Gravity eventually works no matter what the wind does.

 

[artesianspringsfarm]

The longest ongoing discussion I've ever been in involves the accuracy of a rain gauge. I contend they are not accurate. A side ways rain is not going to fall in the gauge, like a straight rain. My dad, brother, and the vet disagree.

I agree with the vet, your dad, and your brother. Gravity eventually works no matter what the wind does.

As do the law of averages. They are right.

 

[artesianspringsfarm]

ambientweather.com. I use the 1200IP. I have the in house display but find myself more often checking the online dashboard they have. It also records and tracks data so I have reliable history on rainfall and temps etc. it also now integrates with Alexa and my smart home hub which I find interesting although most probably wouldn’t use that feature.

 

[slick4591]

That sensor housing looks very similar to the Accurite's. Theirs are plastic and the wind cups would break off in about a year. The housing was in two sections and you could by one or the other as replacements. The section with the cups ran $60 - $70 while the entire system was $90 - $100.

 

[Bigfoot]

Here we go. Luckily, I'm waiting for my feet to thaw, so I have time for a debate.

Say you have a table you need to carry through a three O house door. It's 34" wide. It's no problem to get the table through the door. Just walk straight through (that's the rain that falls straight down. You take the table through at any angle at all, and it's not going to pass through the door (that's the side ways rain). Same amount of table both times. Same width of door both times. The rain gauge will not measure the rain it misses.

We were stuck at a church lock-in , when we had this debate. We literally had all night to talk about it, and neither side was able to convenience the other.

 

[ga.prime]

There isn't any debate. The rain will fall until it can't fall anymore and every surface that can catch rain has the same chance.

 

[D2Cat]

I'm pretty sure Bigfoot is correct. That's why when the scriptures say it rains on the just and the unjust....well, it rains, but different amounts. Depends on if your living right or not...or which side of the door you're on! :mrgreen:

 

[artesianspringsfarm]

The problems with that illustration are multi fold. First of all, the rain gauge I use has a 4” opening. The average size of a raindrop is around 2mm I believe. I don’t care what angle it’s coming in from because in all but the absolute most extreme angles, it will fit through the “door.” Secondly, even if that “table” does not fit through the “door” there are hundreds more “tables” coming. The best way to think about it is, take an area that’s 20’x20’. Is there any 2”x2” area in that larger area that really does not get equal amount of rainfall as compared to the other areas of equal size?