I'm getting my WS2902A today and will be setting it up this weekend. I have an old ranch style house that is very heavily covered in trees in the back and sides, but the front is kind of open (I use DISH satellite TV, so there's enough of a clearing for that - but barely!).
I plan to mount it on a pole from Lowe's/Home Depot on my back deck and have the top of the WS extend just above the ridgeline of my roof so it will get the wind from the most directions possible (the back and sides are HEAVILY wooded, so not likely to get great wind readings there). I was going to attach the pole to my deck. Any tips on doing this, or better suggestions? My wife doesn't want the WS to be visible much, if at all, from the road, so we dont' want it too high - and can't go too high anyway due to trees. We do have a chimney, but use it fairly often in the winter and I know mounting it to that would skew the temp readings when it's in use.
We live in SC, so I've missed all the fun of measuring the weather from Hurricanes Florence and Michael, which just scraped by us. An aside, looks like these don't do well in hurricanes from what I've seen online - go figure!
I'm a newbie at this so any tips - focusing on being inexpensive and easy - are appreciated. Just doing this for fun, primarily, but hope to have a rental house or two in the mountains in the not-too-distant future and would have a WS at those, too, for renters to reference when planning a trip. TIA!