Oh Oh! Wireless weather stations!
I bought one of these:
http://www.ambientweather.com/wmorscwiprwe.html
Off eBay for a 'buy myself what I want' Christmas present in January 2005. It has worked great ever since, no battery replacements or anything. All the wireless remote sensors have solar panels to charge the batteries.
Then you get a simple 9 pin serial cable, and this software:
http://insvr1.midcoastwater.com.au/F...sgg/f10000.htm
Which is free, and that weather station hooks to your pc, will do web page uploads ( here is ours ):
http://www.stanleyranch.us/weather.html
http://www.stanleyranch.us/weather1.html
The rain fall for the last 24 hours is not working, we got about 1.7 inches of rain last night which we really, really needed. I may have to get a new version of the software to see if that is fixed.
And even upload data to weather underground ( I haven't signed up for a site id for them yet ).
Anyhow, I love mine, I have the anemometer on the mast our wireless internet antenna is on, the rain gauge is on the railing of the deck in back. The outside temperature and humidity sensor is on the front ( north ) of the house and I think it reads a bit high in the afternoon due to reflected heat but I haven't bothered moving it. I need a spot that is shady all day long, maybe underneath one of the trees in the front yard....haha.
I'm not a a real serious weather buff, but I really enjoy knowing what the weather is doing at our house...the graphing and data collection of that software is pretty nice as well.
Oh and after installing the ductless mini split a/c unit in our family room, I am really sold on them. No cooling loss to the ducts at all. You can get a multi ton outdoor unit and then install multiple indoor units to get the cooling right where you need it, I would assume you would end up with one per room pretty much...