Topic: Your first instrument collection.

[Skywatch]

Been digging around at some old photos of my collection of weather instruments from many years back and while my collection back then was a bit pathetic I look at my collection now (VP2 and vintage Taylor instruments) and realize how far I've come in this hobby.

Anybody else start out this way?

[Skywatch]

And can't forget the sensors.

Before I had a mixture of sensors installed on 3' post screwed to a 6' fence. You can see in the before picture the PVC pipe the stuff was mounted on.

Also notice the Lacrosse rain gauge funnel over the Acu-rite rain gauge.

Hard to believe years back that was my station.

I feel my current installation is as good as it gets at least for me.

[kcidwx]

My first station when I was in elementary school. Temperature with min/max, wet bulb thermometer, humidity dial, rain gauge. No wind sensors and barometer dial was inside the house.

[Skywatch]

The rain gauge on top of the wooden roof looks like it could also measure snow depth. Cool setup.

I remember even before the Acu-rite anemometer I built my own anemometer using a small motor core and a bike speedometer. Remember after middle school where I went had an older AWS station which is basically 90's version of the Texas Weather Instruments WR-25. The anemometer always intrigued me. Every day after lunch I could sit in the library and watch the anemometer until my next class.

The Acu-rite was the first manufactured anemometer I owned.