I have setup at home a Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus automatic weather station.
Links
To view a live data page with the most critical information that updates every 5 seconds go to: http://liveweather.evansmith.info/
To view a static page with graphs, records, historical data and analysis of data go to: http://weather.evansmith.info
Follow the weather station on Twttter here @CW9313
About the setup
The station is solar powered and wirelessly transmits data to the console every 2.5 seconds. The console is then connected to a data logger and a PC to provide updates to this site every 5 seconds for the live site and every 15 minutes for the static site. Data is also been uploaded to Weather Underground, NOAA and CWOP. I also purchased the daytime fan aspiration kit that provides a solar powered fan for the radiation shield that improves the accuracy of temperature readings.
The station has the following sensors:
Temperature
Humidity
Barometric Pressure
Wind Direction
Wind Speed
Rainfall (tipping bucket accurate to 0.2mm)
Ultraviolet Radiation
Solar Radiation
From these sensors, the console and the software on the PC I can provide the following information:
Temperature - Indoor, outdoor, wet bulb, high and low. High and low temperature alarms
Rainfall - Daily, monthly,yearly, flash flood alarms and storm alarms.
Rainstorm - Beginning and ending date/time of storm events.
Rain Rate - Current and 24 minutes. Rain rate alarm
Wind Speed - Current, average for last 10 minutes and 24 hours. High and average wind speed alarms
Wind Direction - Current, 24 hours. Direction of high wind speed
Wind Chill - Current wind chill. Wind chill alarm.
Dew Point - Current, 24 hours. High and low alarms.
Sun - Time of sunrise &sunset, distance to sun, sun size, sun eclipse
Moon - Current moon rise time, moon set time, moon age, moon phase, distance to moon, moon size, moon eclipse
Barometric Pressure - Current, 24 hours, trend (rising, falling, steady). Pressure change rate.
Humidity - Current, 24 hours, inside, outside. High and low humidity alarms.
Heat Index - Current, 24 hours. Heat index alarm
Humidex - Current, 24 hours. Humidex alarm
Forecast - Sun, part sun, clouds, rain, snow, temperature and wind.
UV Index - Current UV Index reading with description (Low, Moderate, High, Very High. Extreme)
Solar Radiation - Current solar radiation by % or W/m2. Sunshine hours, day, month, year.
Evapotranspiration - Current ET, ET rate.
