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Best places for weather station

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imike
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Best places for weather station

Post by imike »

were is the best place for the weather station now i have got the weather station on treliceing
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Post by beteljuice »

Do you mean trellising ?

... and why is it there ?

For all of us positioning is a 'local environment' thing.

Lots of posts on what people have done / experimenting with - even a couple that give you unachievable / not underderstable guidelines from met offices various.

First thing to understand is that all your kit shouldn't be in one cluster (that includes Davis)

Wind gear, 30 feet / 10m up in the clear or at least 4m above your roof / local obstructions/
Thermohygro - approx 5 feet / 1.5m above grass, in the shade ('old' head height)
Rain-bucket - approx 20 inches / 500mm above ground level to avoid splatter and wind shear, also reasonably shaded by wind.

This is why we 'play' with the kit we have :lol:
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thank you for that i will have a go at that
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Post by yv1hx »

For some of ours, siting a Weather Station in a urban environment maybe a nightmare...

I hope this link will be useful for someone:

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/ ... MetObs.pdf

http://home.comcast.net/~dshelms/CWOP_Guide.pdf
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Post by steve »

John Dann also has some excellent advice on siting sensors: http://weatherstations.co.uk/gooddata.htm
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Post by hills »

Here's what I've done, its not perfect but the results have shown its not a bad compromise. (its a big image so I'll leave it as a link)

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~storerfa ... tled-2.jpg
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