Hello -
I'm buying an undeveloped land lot to build a house on and it's on a ridge near the ocean in Pacifica, CA (outside San Francisco) with microclimate that probably isn't captured by standard weather data sets (please correct me if you think I'm wrong!)
To support our architect, I was hoping to capture temperature, humidity, wind speed, and wind direction for a few months. We thought it'd be cool to put a weather station on the land.
However, it is currently a blank lot with no utilities (electricity, wifi, etc.) or buildings. Most weather stations I've seen seem to require wifi : ( I figured I could try to mount a data-logging weather station up in a tree (so no one steals it if it's just sitting on the ground) and then download the data sets once every few weeks? But certainly would be open to something that requires less manual effort.
Can someone recommend a good on-board data logging (perhaps SD card? or internal with bluetooth transfer?) weather station? Or perhaps I should look at cellular equipped stations? Or perhaps something I haven't considered (like putting a battery powered mobile cellular wifi hotspot in the tree with the weather station)
Any tips? I'm hoping to spend less than a few hundred dollars but also don't want to engage in an arduino science project - hoping a mostly off-the-shelf solution exists
Thanks!
