Thrag
6264
I read about that. I assume he lives some miles further up mountain or over the summit on the incline villiage side where they get way more snow. Sounds like he has a bobcat with a plow and it rolled over. Very scary.
Petey
6265
What kind of weather station do you have? I bought one for my kid for xmas but not sure where the heck to install it. No flat space on my roof but it comes with a pole attachment so thinking of getting a long rod from Lowes to pound into the ground a bit away from our house but within range of the info panel in the house.
Tman
6266
The government thread above is a bad representation. I use the one below & couldn’t even figure out how to get to it from the weather.gov site. I bookmarked it years ago. So use this below for Porltand, and just add your own zip to get your own zip then bookmark it.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=45.59962654582255&lon=-123.01116943359375&site=pqr&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text
Houngan
6267
You were right, I wasn’t a fan until I realized the URL was actually robust enough for me to bookmark the 10 day forecast. Should do nicely, thanks.
Houngan
6269
That’s nice, very much like Windy, but for me I’m just looking for a one-click answer to seeing a ten day forecast without being asked if I need ED drugs.
Thrag
6270
I’ve got an Ambient Weather WS-1002. That particular model is old and discontinued but there are newer similar ones. It’s got a wall panel, and integrates with weather underground. Ambient weather also has their own site for monitoring the station with more details than it sends to wunderground. They integrate with Alexa too so I you can ask it current conditions by voice. The panel gets reception from the sensor unit at a pretty impressive distance. It’s got to be at least 150’ and a bunch of walls between the two units in my setup.
I’ve got it mounted on a tripod about 8’ high on a flat spot as far from the house or trees as I could get it. You’re supposed to keep them away from obstructions in order to get an unaffected wind speed, or if on a roof as far off the roof as you can get. I tried using ground stakes to secure the tripod to the ground, but the earth is so hard and rocky that plan failed. I ended up putting a cinder block on each foot of the mounting tripod, which I dug down a few inches and then filled in and covered up a bit with dirt as best I could. It’s survived 80+ mile an hour winds without going down. The tripod I used could also be screwed or bolted down to a roof.
Petey
6271
Thanks. The model I bought is from Explore Scientific and does the Weather Underground integration also. My kid is a huge geek and she has so much stuff I couldnt figure out what to get her for Xmas. So, weather station it was. Tripod with weights on the bottom is a good idea.
Will hit Home Depot this weekend.
I presume they have units these days that are wireless?
Thrag
6273
Yes, the sensors are battery/solar operated and communicate on some low frequency with the display panel which acts as a base station. The panel then connects to your home wifi. Only wire is the power cord for the display panel.
If she gets into weather and geeky enough for maybe tiny computers and programming, then I have seen a lot of cheap and cool homebrew weather station projects using little maker SBCs like ESP32 or Arduino or maybe a Pi.
Bonus weather hack:
I am too lazy to open a new tab to look up the latest radar image, so I leave Opera open on a second monitor (lightweight, ~100Mb) with this local page which auto-refreshes my regional NWS radar map. And it’s clickable to show the recent image set as a gifanim. Substitute your local radar for KRAX.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="720">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<A HREF="https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KRAX_loop.gif">
<IMG src="https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KRAX_0.gif?uid=1661221013847">
</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>
I picked this one up two years ago and it’s still going strong. It uses solar in combination with a few AAA batteries, and I haven’t had to change them yet. I mounted it on a 10’ galvanized pole near my office and connected it to Wunderground via our wifi. Works like a charm.
After a bunch of rain it was nice to go for a walk today in the sun! With added dash of fog on the bay.
And we’re back to rain today, haha.
Canada must be preppin’ for an invasion. (Wind chills on top of Mt. Washington expected to hit -100.)
Taking doggo out for potty is an adventure especially when she get’s cat brain: “Why are we out here again?” (Typically I let her out in the fenced in area of our yard but I’m taking her out on a leash as I don’t want her out there for more than 10 minutes and to encourage her.)
The rest of the week forecast to be in the 40s (unusually warm for Feb. but I’ll take it.)
It has been cold here too; -19F at the moment. Dogs do the “one paw up, three paws down” dance and even the two who usually love to linger and smell everything are competing for “fastest crap in the East” titles. My very old girl, who is around 15 (pretty old for a standard poodle of 50 lbs) sometimes needs help getting back to the garage as the thick snow banks and frigid temps cause her back end to be even more flaky.
Oh, and wind chill? Yeah. One of my colleagues though is from Siberia (literally; she graduated high school in some town in the middle of nowhere). She now has not one but two Ph.D.s, from I think some very good schools in the Baltic republics, but you can’t take the tundra out of the professor I guess. When we were talking about the weather she kind of shrugged and said, “Oh, yes, it’s like this most of the winter in Siberia. Sometimes it’s worse.”
Ephraim
6280
My Carrot weather app says I just broke my record for lowest temperature experienced in my 3 years of using it.
All temperatures in Celsius. I’m in Montreal.
Time for an extra helping of piping-hot poutine I think!
Ephraim
6282
Yum. Breakfast poutine is one of the best poutines.
I’d have to order any poutine I wanted in, though. And I’d feel really bad knowing some poor delivery person was suffering by having to go out in this. Yesterday at work I had to run to my car to get something I’d forgotten. It’s a 1 minute round trip, so I figured “I don’t need to zip up my coat or put on gloves”. Big mistake. By the time I got back inside, it actually hurt!
With the dew point at -30, at least it’s a dry cold.
