Could anyone recommend a home weather station?

I broke my wrist before Christmas after coming off my road bike on black ice, which wasn’t anticipated in any weather forecast I saw.

I live in a rural location and think a weather station might be a good idea. Would like one that has a max/min reading from the night before so I can see how close to freezing it may have got.

Can anyone recommend one?

a large window ?

Some of the mercury type greenhouse thermometers do that.

Lidl had some digital Max/Min thermometers with indoor and outdoor sensor -£2.99 for just that! Might have some left.

just use someone elses…

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

I have a Maplin’s UBS Pro weather station (£60 from Maplins – if the black one is expensive the white one is cheap).

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/black-usb-wireless-touchscreen-weather-forecaster-n96gy

Records temp, rainfall, wind speed and direction and relative humidity. Awesome!

I plugged mine into a Raspberry Pi (which plugs into the base station via a USB cable – sitting neatly in the living room)

I then installed pywws (Python) using the guide on this website:
http://www.weather.dragontail.co.uk/index.php?page=station_setup

It feeds every 5 minutes to Weather Underground:
http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=ISTIRLIN11#current

If going for more than an overnight min/max – which is a bit boring really 😉 think about how you’re going to view the data. Weather Underground solves the problem for me – else you’ll need a laptop running some logging software. The Maplin’s station comes with some, or there’s software out there on the web for free or a fee.

I’ve got one of these, it’s good.