When the sun is out, the temperature readings from my weather station are constantly high when compared to nearby official stations. This is to be expected as temperature should be measured in a Stevenson screen, not with the direct sun beating down on it. There is a screen of sorts […]

I have had my weather station reporting to my website via a Raspberry Pi for seventeen months now and I enjoyed tinkering with it over that time. In addition to the Raspberry Pi, I have seen references to the Arduino which is a microcontroller and I’m intrigued by that as […]

In the past I have had a feeling my Fine Offset weather station has not been recording all of our rainfall. Then when we had a storm today, my weather station recorded about 5mm less than my manual weather gauge so I knew I’d better look into it. I knew […]