{"id":1179,"date":"2009-05-17T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T05:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-05-17T00:10:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T05:10:30","slug":"home-weather-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Home Weather Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a dispatcher, I&#8217;m almost required to be somewhat of a weather geek. I just posted a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?page_id=1172\">weather page <\/a>that shares some of my thoughts on weather and a few interesting links. <\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been doing research on home weather stations. &#8220;Weather station&#8221; is a broad term that could cover anything from an outdoor thermometer to a $5000 professional-quality set of sensors that feeds data to the National Weather Service. I have one made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonscientific.com\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Scientific <\/a>that reports indoor\/outdoor temp and humidity, air pressure, and atomic time, which it picks up via radio signal. I LOVE it except that some evil person stole my wireless temp\/humidity sensor. It also tries to forecast the weather, but since it only knows the data it can sense, the forecasts are usually wrong. =) <\/p>\n<p>I looked into upgrading to a station that measures winds and rainfall and beams the data into my house. Then I realized two things: 1) at our house, the best place to install an anemometer (wind gauge) is 6-10 feet above the roof ridge, and 2) even then, with all the trees we have in the area, the wind data wouldn&#8217;t be that accurate. So now I&#8217;m looking into another type of station that picks up a REAL forecast and current conditions via radio or the internet and organizes them in a convenient display on your desk or countertop.<\/p>\n<p>In case you want to geek out on weather with me, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbuffs.com\" target=\"_blank\">WeatherBuffs <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weathershack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WeatherShack <\/a>are both good sites that specialize in these products and include some information to help you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a dispatcher, I&#8217;m almost required to be somewhat of a weather geek. I just posted a new weather page that shares some of my thoughts on weather and a few interesting links. Lately I&#8217;ve been doing research on home &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}