Hi,
Can anyone point me towards a weather station - and software - for a beginner who hasn't much to spend?
Ideally I'm maxing at £160 / $200 so I'm not expecting anything professional. And I'm UK based where kit seems to be more expensive. I would go a little higher if the perfect kit was out there!
I want to capture basic weather data on my PC (or at a pinch my old desktop Mac). I'd like over time to create a weather history of my location which I could slice & dice & show using graphs etc. on the PC. I'd even be happy to forego specialist software and use Excel (I'm reasonably competent in creating displays, etc.) but what kit do would enable me to even do that?
I'd looked at an older model Bresser 5-in-1 (with a monochrome screen) which fed into Weather Tool software but it sounds like that software is getting old & tired. Assuming it did work as it ought to, would it allow me to play with the data & create graphs, etc?
Bresser's newer models connect to apps but would the apps allow me to create a history that I could in due course delve into? Would the apps work on a PC or even an old Mac? Do any of these apps allow for data to be played with?
I do like the idea of the station feeding into an app on my iPhone but it's the capture and use of the data I'm more interested in. The screens that come with these weather stations look very impressive but I'd ideally have all the history on my PC.
And if I fed into Weather Cloud or Weather Underground, do their systems allow me access my own weather history?
Any suggestions gratefully received!