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I've been wanting to build a fully autonomous (solar panel + cellular network) for a long time...
http://madscientistlabs.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-you-get-s...
If you have a Davis VP2 Weather station, I wrote a blog post a while back reverse-engineering the protocol, and showed how to sniff its wireless transmissions and receive it on something like an IM-ME Pretty Pink Pager. The Davis Outdoor stuff is very good quality for the price and has given me good service for many years. http://madscientistlabs.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-you-get-s...
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I had been very disappointed with the local weather forecast last summer, and then there was an interview with one of the meteorologists involved and they said they were quite proud of how accurate their predictions had been so far. I was taken aback, as in my mind their "success rate" had been well below 50%. Then I got my answer: they focused on the temperature forecast, while since I bike to work what I was intere…
I think part of the problem is not the accuracy of the forecast, but whether it's useful to you, or not. As an example, they may forecast that 30% of the areas your city will report rain tomorrow. They may have an high level of confidence in this prediction (and verify it to be correct after the fact). It may still not be very useful to you, since the one outcome is so different to the other. That said, I agree with…
Just last Thursday they reported zero precipitation for the entire day, not a hint of rain. Yet we got 3 hours of medium-heavy showers in the afternoon... not a very uncommon combination. If I had known there was a 30% chance of showers, I would have packed my rain jacket.
For those that do not feel brave enough to build a weather station from scratch you can buy a 'Watson W-8681' Weather Station and hook up a Raspberry Pi to it to collect all the data. Jim Easterbrook (ex-BBC engineer) has a really good write up on the process, and also shares his python code: http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/weather/ I don't know Jim, but I have done the same following his instructions.
HN ML practitioners would probably find the Climacell method of weather forecasting to be relevant. https://www.climacell.co/
OP i hate to break it to you. but a weather station wont tell you the right clothes to wear for the day. IT will tell you if it's raining outside currently. Consider this, station says it's raining and cold. You wear lots of clothes, umbrella etc. The rain storm is out of area by 9am and rest of day is hot and sunny.
I like that Kirill Dubovikov built a weather station and showed others how. The more people who do this, the better, not just for education and skills, but in terms of gathering weather information that can help forecasters. He wrote, "the Weather app on my iPhone is not very good at making accurate forecasts," and I thought, "he must have been using the wrong app." I hope in addition to building weather stations and…
Is there a network of people installing such weather stations and sharing their info? I thought a crowd-source weather information like that could be very useful.
Weather Underground is one: https://www.wunderground.com/pws/overview
But then you are 100% reliant upon them for their graphs and app displays, which are slow and often broken, and give you little choice in formatting. For example, the app doesn't display a wind history at all, but the web does. But it won't display on a variety of mobile devices very well.
I know they're free (at the advertising level anyway) but I would love to see some competition with better display options and broader browser / device support.
I currently "tee" my transmissions through another server, but only because I have a model of station (no longer made) that made this trivial. Now you have to intercept the RF which is much more of a pain.
Nice. I love weather station builds. Here is mine. I added a pm air quality sensor, a infrared rain sensor, some light sensors, a CO2 sensor, an accelerometer, and a loudness sensor. There's a spot for my Geiger counter too but that installation is not done yet. https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-...