{"id":3486,"date":"2012-08-13T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2023-10-03T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:33:44","slug":"homebrew-weather-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/13\/homebrew-weather-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Weather Prediction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/usaradar.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"70\" \/>I enjoy having a weather station at home. It is hooked up to <a href=\"http:\/\/aprs.fi\/weather\/a\/AD7MI-3\">APRS<\/a>, weatherunderground.com, and I even have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/wx\/wx.html\">weather webpage<\/a>. One of the standard exchanges of information in most general QSOs is the weather: temperature, rain, &#8230;. I also like telling the folks in Florida that my humidity is 40% (I am not a fan of humidity having expierenced Fort Benning, GA in the summertime and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatyourkimchi.com\/korean-monsoon-season\/\">monsoon season<\/a> in Korea, not to mention my unairconditioned room at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citadel.edu\">The Citadel<\/a> (although I hear they have air conditioning now!)). <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/vantage_pro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/>It is easy to look at my desktop display and get all the data I need. I have heard of some folks who have a way to pull their weather data directly from their weather stations and input it into their PSK QSOs. Pretty slick, but I have never figured out how to do that (&#8230; yet).<\/p>\n<p>All that being said, I do not get into weather prediction that much. If I see the barometer dropping, I may check the locak National Weather Service radar to see if anything is moving in (weather here moves from west to east). But if I wanted to get into weather prediction, this would make an interesting homebrew project: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tempest_prognosticator\">The Tempest Prognosticator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/fe\/Merryweather.jpg\/220px-Merryweather.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Developed in the 1850s by Dr. George Merryweather, this device used leeches that would ring a bell if a storm was approaching. The device was even featured in Britian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Exhibition\">Great Exhibition of 1851<\/a>. Despite the publicity, Dr. Merryweather was never able to get the government interested in putting the device into use.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure there would be a way to interface the slugs with some kinda of Arduino device that would send out weather predicitions via APRS data. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy having a weather station at home. It is hooked up to APRS, weatherunderground.com, and I even have a weather webpage. One of the standard exchanges of information in most general QSOs is the weather: temperature, rain, &#8230;. I also like telling the folks in Florida that my humidity is 40% (I am not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/13\/homebrew-weather-prediction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Weather Prediction?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,57,140,248,259],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-aprs","tag-citadel","tag-kits-homebrew","tag-vantage-pro2","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-Ue","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}