Chapter 13. Weather Station Receiver

The incredible popularity of home weather stations shows that it's not just farmers who are interested in the weather. Many people want to be able to track and record weather events within their local environment rather than relying on a state or national weather service that may not have adequate local details.

Home weather stations typically consist of two major parts: the sensors that sit outside your home and measure temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, rainfall, and barometric pressure; and the display unit that lives inside your home so you can read the external temperature while sitting around the fire warming your feet and deciding whether it's too cold to go fishing. Generally, the external sensors connect together with cables, with one sensor also acting as a transmitter to send updates wirelessly to the display unit.