I used to have a weather station. A small one with only temps, wind, humidity and rain amount. Eventually it died. I was looking to replace it with a better station. As part of looking into that, I started investigating stations that could be put online. And I found so many of them already online around me, that I decided I didn't need to buy my own. Many are high end expensive stations that I could not afford for myself.
In truth, I rarely look at these online personal stations. Sometimes I do. There are a bunch of them to choose from in a three block radius around me. And plenty more as you move farther away (but still close). I mostly use a weather app on my smartphone these days. Much of that data comes from our local small airport, which is about 5 miles from me. So close enough to give me useful information.
I did not end up replacing my dilapidated weather station. It's still cranking out temps and humidity, but wind and rain features are toast. There was no benefit for me to buy a new station. Totally different for those of you who live out in the middle of nowhere. It's probably your personal weather station, or no weather station at all.
I do have a Kestrel mobile weather station. It does lots of neat stuff. I take it to the shooting range. A friend gave it to me when he recently bought a newer model (that has an internal ballistics calculator). This old one he gave me is no slouch - it was their top of the line model a few years ago. "Density Altitude" is a nice reading to have (if your ballistics program allows that as an input). It's a combination of elevation, pressure, temperature and humidity I think. Pretty much all you need to know to calculate a bullets trajectory, in one number. I think pilots use this reading a lot too. You can connect one of these things to a computer for remote monitoring I believe. But that would be a kludge I'd think. Just get a permanent weather station if you want to access things remotely.
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