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My weather station, in all it's glory, well plus a few house bricks to stop it flying away. I have now mounted, screwed down the the rain gauge to a small paving slab. We had some strong winds a while back and I found the rain gauge swinging from it's data cable :-). The main problem with sitting this station is that I can not screw it down to the roof, thus bricks have to do. This is probably not the best site for the station but it has to do. I regularly check its results with a local 'real' weather station, and it comes out very well, considering it's a hobby. |
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Above is the Stevenson 'box/screen'. It contains the Humidity sensor, temperature sensor, lightning sensor and solar sensor. The solar sensor it's self (the light sensitive part) is mounted on the very top of the 'box', you might be able to pick out the green/yellow wire in the pictures above. The lightning sensor is also where I have connected the temperature sensor to. However I will need to move the lightning sensor further away from the house as it seems to pick up every time someone turns on a light in the house. |
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This picture was taken on 24/1/2007 @ 9 o'clock. As you see from this picture we do get snow in the south east of England, it was the first time we had snow in years! However at mid day most of it had melted. Once the snow had started melting the rain gauge clocked the amount of water this related to. I know some people fit a heater in the gauge, but it rarely snows here so there really does not seem to be much point, it would only get used once every 6 years. |
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