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The Storm Thread has reminded me of something I've been thinking about recently.
What I really want is to wake up in the morning. Grab my tablet / mobile device and see how cold it really got outside overnight.
The reason is I want to make a decision whether to ride my road bike early or leave it a few hours until the ice has melted. A lot of the roads don't get treated and recently I've woken up, got togged up and headed outside and realised 100m down the road the lanes are lethal. Even though the forecast didn't suggest it would get right down to 0 deg C.
Yes I know I could just get up and have a look but that means an hour difference in bed when I ride to work!
I'm guessing some kind of outdoors weather station but will consider anything. My first google failed. My second showed up some different options but wondering if any of Singletrack have a setup or system...
Stoner's your man on this.
[url= https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/technotrade-mini-weather-station-n19dq ]This[/url] at Maplins looks like it meets my requirements but doesn't review that great.
Netatmo here
I had various maplin USB type weather stations ( https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/black-usb-wireless-touchscreen-weather-centre-n96gy) before which were ok, but parts failed quicker than they should.
I have the netatmo basic + rain gauge which has been great for 6 months.
I've got the older version of this:
https://www.weathershop.co.uk/shop/weather-stations/oregon-scientific-wmr89-weather-station
It's great. Used to have it auto uploading to my website where you can create templates and display all the info you want. Also sends info off to wunderground etc.
We use the Davis Vantage Vue for work, reliable, easy to use and surprisingly addictive looking at real time data. I am considering getting one for the house.
Not cheap, but good kit, anything cheap will just not last.
I'm guessing some kind of outdoors weather station but will consider anything.
In that case you could spend £20 on a Raspberry Pi Zero W (with built in wifi), an SD card, some ds18b20 temperature sensors (you'd need the waterproof version) and bits of wire.
Then do a little bit of [url= https://www.modmypi.com/blog/ds18b20-one-wire-digital-temperature-sensor-and-the-raspberry-pi ]Bash[/url] and Python scripting (I can send you the scripts) to get the temperature and automatically upload your data to a free account with [url= http://www.initialstate.com ]Initial State[/url]
Some of my temperature sensors
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Have a look at https://www.wunderground.com/ - there may be someone very close to you already feeding their weather station to it. I was tempted to get my own but there's four on there close to my house which gives me all the info I wanted.
The Weather Underground app recently had an update where you can set ideal and perfect weather scenarios for going cycling.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wunderground.android.weather&hl=en_GB
Davis VantageVue here. Very good quality kit. A lot of the cheaper stuff fails after a few months. My Davis system has been on our chimney for over two years and hasn't missed a beat.
Logging and uploading features.
Another netatmo user.
Currently 4.8C outside and 11C in the greenhouse...
Remember that the temperature of your weather instruments - and the temperatures on weather forecasts/ weather apps are "air temperatures" - ie the temperature of the air at the sensor height (or typically 1.5ishm high in case of forecasts) whereas ice forming on the road is determined by the road surface temperature - this is related to...but different from the air temperature...and on winter cloud free night can be as much as 3 Celsius or so lower than the "air temperature" so its fairly common to get ice on roads/pavements when the air temperature is quite a few degrees above zero. The people who make in-car thermometers know this and so have a little snowflake or ice alert symbol flash next to the temperature number when the temperature is below +3C.
Things like the thickness and composition of the road can determine how fast the road surface temperature falls below freezing as well...generally thinner, smaller roads freeze 1st and faster.
Super geeks might have a little metal temperature probe attached to a concrete slab to give a better sense of road surface temperaure..and those local authority weather stations you see at the side of the road have temperature probes embedded in the tarmac for most accuracy. Sadly though those council temperature readouts tend to be very difficult to find online in realtime.
Brilliant thank you for all the people who took the time to reply.
It looks like Weather Underground has a station literally just around the corner from me, so that can give me last night's temperature before I get out of bed!
The Raspberry Pi project looks like it could be fun to do with my son!
Thank you everyone else also!
@gwaelod - yes good advice. I think what I want to do is just get a feel for when the local roads have frozen and what the reported temperature was on whatever reading I have a look at (be it Weather Underground, my own temperature reading / station).
In that case you could spend £20 on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
How do you power an outside station? Or is the PI indoors and you simply run wires out?
Like Sharkbait I'm using a Raspberry Pi, but upload to [url= https://thingspeak.com/ ]thingspeak[/url]
How do you power an outside station? Or is the PI indoors and you simply run wires out?
Pi is indoors with wire run outside.