Hi,
We're going to be building a home in the next couple of years on a lot that we just bought.
I'm thinking that a weather station would be a great way to get data to tell us which way
to "point" the house in order to take maximum advantage of wind in the summer (we're in
the central Arizona desert). Also, it'd be kind of cool to know just how warm it gets here, and
how much rain we can expect in a year.
A few things are keeping me from just throwing up a station and getting on with it:
1) There's no electric power on the land at the moment.
Do the stations run on batteries? If they do run on batteries, could I just take a laptop
out to the land once in a while and download the data?
2) There's evidence that good ol' boys occasionally use the area for nighttime drinking despite
the no-trespassing signs.
Any ideas on making the station as vandal-proof as possible?
3) I'll be using the station mainly for recording wind direction, wind speed, temperature, and
rainfall.
Doesn't seem like I need a terribly sophisticated model. What should I be looking at
when I go to buy?
Thanks for any help you can give.