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Personal weather stations/monitoring
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MartinGilmour
Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:48 am Posts: 95 Location: Whitstable, Kent, UK
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Personal weather stations/monitoring
Hi all
I am considering getting some sort of reliable weather monitoring equipment, as I would like to push the barriers a little with what I grow but have no real concept of the kind of highs and lows I get in my garden.
However, I have no experience whatsoever of monitoring the weather, and so I am just looking for some suggestions for a simple bit of kit that will do the job (I would like reliable but inexpensive - I don't need to know everything, just temperature monitoring really).
Also, where exactly would you recommend citing anything I do get? I have no idea if it should be out in the open, against a fence, as far from the house as possible, in shade, in the middle of the main plant-bed, etc?
Thank you for any tips
Martin
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Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:07 am |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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Re: Personal weather stations/monitoring
The external thermometer for my weather-compensated central heating system is to be sited in a sheltered location and not exposed to direct sun, because in sun it will register a temperature that is several degrees higher than the air temperature. I suspect it will be the same principle for a weather station.
The thermometer is on a northeast facing fence in the shelter of a Trachycarpus canopy and adjacent to a tall Bamboo. It routinely registers temperatures 1-2C lower than what the local BBC weather station says we are having in my neighbourhood of North London. It often tells me we have had a light frost and then there is no sign of damage to tender plants the next day.
I have no thermometer on the green roof, but experience tells me that it is at least 2-4C colder than the ground level garden on clear nights with radiant frosts. The soil can freeze solid up there when we have had -1C elsewhere. The two gardens are adjacent, separated only vertically.
My main point is that ambient temperature varies across a wide range, even in a very small garden. Any single station or thermometer will only give a rough guide, wherever you site it.
_________________ 51º33'07"N x 0º07'21"W
43m (142 feet) ASL
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Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:27 pm |
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MartinGilmour
Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:48 am Posts: 95 Location: Whitstable, Kent, UK
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Re: Personal weather stations/monitoring
Thanks David
Yes I take your point that there is no single correct way to do it
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