I’m starting to follow in my father’s footsteps and taking an unhealthy interest in the weather.
So when I clocked in Lidl that they had very cheap digital in/out max/min thermometers, I jumped at the chance and bought two.
I have installed one in the office and one in my home office.
I can tell you that when I left the Chesterfield office at 23.40 this evening, it was 2.5 degrees. No wonder my car had frozen up. But with my new thermometer, I was forewarned!
At home, it’s registering 3.5 deg outside, and a whopping 20 in. I’m sure it’s not really so hot.
I now have rather a lot of thermometers.
New digital one with wired outdoor sensor in my office. Digital with wireless sensor in the sitting room (14 deg), and the sensor in the bedroom (17 deg). Alcohol thermometer over the central thermostat reads 15 and the alcohol max/min one on the lean to reads min 3 deg (which must be now or last night) and max 42 deg (which must have been in August!)
And of course there’s the one in the car, which read 1 deg in the Bingo carpark, 4 deg on the M1 and 2 deg where I parked at home.
Which is all very well.
But what I’d really like is a series of wifi thermometer sensors recording and sending info to my PC that could draw pretty graphs and alert me to problems with the heating over the internet, etc.
There do seem to be one or two things like that available, but they’re either obscenely expensive or involve lots of soldering and being practical, which is more than I can manage.
Thobut I’d love something capable of producing reports like these.
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NERD!!!!!! 🙂
i like these weathery forecasting thingumys too!
i really want a weatherstation and weathercam, what periodically uplaods to a webpage and tracks the weather like that website you link to – is ace!
i will have one on my boat…
My father has a collection of thermometers that he monitors several times a day.
I think it is a disease that you boys get as you get older….. ….seems to have hit you pretty young though, maybe you need a doctor?
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hi just wanted to say hello and i like reading your amusing blog. i heard you reading the story of H.G Wells the invisible man. on the internet.and heard you giving this web address so got curious keep up the good work.
Hi,
Just thought you ought to know it’s my site you refer to.
http://www.calvertoncam.co.uk/weather
All I can say is that once you start recording the weather it’s a slippery slope. What I mean is that when you have records covering a long period you just can’t bear to miss some. It’s all about completeness!
It’s not cheap (the initial purchase), I think it cost me about £500 in 1999/ 2000 so at the moment thats about £83 a year.
You’ll find the most interesting times are in winter when you can really seehow cold it gets or conversely in summer jus how warm it got. The keeping of records allows you to see is this the coldes or the warmest etc.
Regards
I want some of those wi-fi temperature sensors too. And some wind speed and rainfall things too. All I’ve found so far is your blog, but at least I know I’m not alone in the search.
I am with you! I’d like to track indoor, outdoor, attic and crawlspace at my house.