Hi.. I'm new here and found this forum doing a bunch of searches that did not really answer my questions, so here it goes...
I'm thinking about getting a weather station, but I'm in an apartment, top floor (8th floor) facing SW, no roof over my balcony, and no I can't get on the roof because I've asked before trying to get my ham radio antennas of there. (but I'm pretty much inactive as a ham stuff now, but that's a rant for another time and place..)
Am I going to get worth while readings being in an apartment or would it be just a waste of time and money?
I want the main stuff, temperature humidity, barometer, wind speed (I'm guessing wind direction would be pointless) rain fall would be nice too.
Basically I'm looking for a new hobby, I was always fascinated by weather as a kid, in fact I found the weather book my mother bought me 40 years ago a few nights ago and started reading it again. And just put holds on a bunch of weather books at the library. Would have picked them up today, but ironically, the weather was too bad to go. I've always had a interest in technical hobbies, electronic, computers, model trains, and I tried ham radio but found it to be a 'just us' club in a lot of ways so I've pretty much lost interest there. I'm disabled, so I'm home 99.9% of the time and playing video games is getting repetitive..
I'm looking at a few on Amazon.ca right now, AcuRite 00589 is the most likely at the moment exact it lacks rain info. "MISOL 1 Unit of Pro Wireless", AcuRite 01015 would be nice, except the size of the sensor unit will likely get unwanted attention. and Oregon Scientific WMR86A looks good too. I would like to be able to put it on line with wunderground.com or something lie it.
So I welcome ideas, suggestions, or if this just a bad idea being in an apartment?
thanks
edit: woops. I just realized I selected the wrong board for this post.. my apologizes.. sorry, please don't hate me..