Home Weather Station

🌧️ Why a Station

The forecast talks about the whole region, but rain is local. A storm can soak the next village and skip the garden completely. With a small weather station on the land I don't have to guess any more: I can see when it rained, how much fell, and whether the beds actually need water.

📈 What It Records

The station logs the weather on its own, day and night, and keeps the history:

• Rainfall: when it started, how long it lasted and how many millimetres fell
• Temperature, including the cold nights that matter in spring
• Humidity, dew point and air pressure
• Wind

💧 Watching the Weather

I'm curious about weather in general, not only rain, and humidity is the part I find most interesting. With the numbers in front of me I can watch it happen: how the air dries out over a sunny day, why dew forms on some nights and not others, when the morning fog will hang around. It also helps me read the forecast better, because I can see how it lines up with what is going on right here.

• Dew point: tells me whether a night will bring dew or fog
• Long humid spells: the time to keep an eye out for fungal diseases
• Falling pressure and rising humidity: often the first sign that rain is on its way

🗂️ Slowly Collecting Data

A single season says little, but the records keep piling up. Over the years they turn into a picture of this one place: how wet the springs are, when the last frost really comes, how long the summer dry spells last. It is the same kind of patient observation that pranostiky grew out of, just written down by a machine.

🏗 Technologies & Methods

🌊 Impact