New weather station at Spiritwood

After considering options for years, I finally installed a weather station that can record to my computer and share online with anyone.

The device is an Acurite 5 in 1 Professional Weather Station (model 01036) — and purchased for the remarkably low price of just $60 from Costco. Time will tell how well the plastic sensor unit lasts on top of our laundry-line pole!

It took a bit of fussing with fairly obscure “instructions” to get everything connected, but now it is sending data to my computer and publishing it on Wunderground. The current status of the sensors should display below. Click it to open my weather history data on Wunderground’s site.

You can also view this and other nearby weather stations by using this link.

Long gaps just mean my attention was elsewhere!

Okay, I know… blogs aren’t supposed to have such long gaps between entries like this. Mea culpa.

And I won’t bother to list all the things that have distracted me from adding content for more than 16 months. Suffice to say I haven’t been sitting idle. Instead, I’ll just pretend that I’ve been diligent and continue on.

As I was setting things up for a remake of Katharine’s web site this past week, it banged into some familiar brick walls with limitations in the Blogger interface. I detest having inch and foot symbols used instead of proper typographic apostrophe and quotation symbols, but Blogger’s post editor is unable to convert them on the fly. Right; that’s why we used Windows LiveWriter for composing our blog posts while travelling in 2010.

So, I installed LiveWriter on both our systems—and our posts can now be typed with the preferred symbols.