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meteorology@yahoogroups.com, "robpus" <rpeffer@i...> wrote:
>
> I have lived in West Sacramento, California for a few years.
>
> I have been lazily interested in meteorology since I was young. I
> would like to begin recording the weather in my own back yard. I do
> not see this pursuit as being a generally useful hobby due to my
very
> local environment (in the suburbs, near my heated dwelling, etc.)
but
> it would be a great education and might be useful to somebody
someday.
> I have bills and a day-job (and a 100 mile-each-way commute) but I
am
> sure I could muster the energy to record the information from decent
> weather equipment, if I had some.
>
> Currently I have only hardware-store grade equipment. Mercury
> thermometers in which the scale was just slapped on, including three
> min/max thermometers in which the low-end scale and the high-end
scale
> do not show the same current temperature); hygrometers that show 85%
> in a steamy bathroom, 30% in a dry oven; barometers in which the
scale
> from 29 inches through 31 inches in approx 1 deg of arc on the face
of
> the barometer (thats an exaggeration but not much of one). In short
-
> the cheapest possible equipment made to be decorative rather than
> accurate.
>
> I have looked into electronic measuring equipment that hooks up a
> computer and automatically records various measurements, but that it
> way more than I want or need or can afford. Besides, my goal is to
> learn how to measure the weather, not how to run a computer program.
>
> I read a prior post which stated that the only good hygrometer is of
> the "sling psychrometer" variety and that Edmund Scientific sells
such
> an instrument.
>
> I have read the Jetstream Online Weather School offered by the
> Southern Regional Headquarters of the National Weather Service
> backwards and forwards and printed out the lists of symbols. The
> weather tutorial at uiuc.edu has also been very helpful to me.
>
> I am interested in recording at my location:
> --Daily high and low temps
> --Sky
> --Wind speed and direction
> --Air pressure
> --Relative humidity
>
> I would like this group's recommendations re: equipment that I
should
> use and also any general advice to a complete weather newbie.
>
> Thanks for reading this. I am looking forward to your replies.
>
> -R
> Robert M. Peffer
> West Sacramento, CA