I finished installing my new Davis Weather Station earlier this week on Monday. I got the Vantage Pro 2 model for my birthday back in June, which measures wind direction, wind speed, outdoor/indoor temperature, humidity, pressure, and rainfall via a tipping bucket. Albuquerque isn’t known for its trees, but our backyard actually has quite a few. So, it was challenging to find a site in the yard to locate the instrumentation without gettting “rain shadowed” or sheltered by trees. I chose a site on the east side of the backyard, and mounted the annemometer on a 20 foot pole to hopefully get as accurate of a reading as possible (without getting too carried away). I secured the 20 foot galvanized pole to a treated 4″ x 4″ wooden post, both of which were secured in a 2.5′ deep hole with 5 bags of concrete. The rest of the instruments are pieced together as one unit that I mounted on the wooden post beneath the annemometer. This model is solar powered and transmits the data wirelessly to a LCD console indoors. Eventually I hope to get an external data logger which would enable me to display the data on my webpage which could prove to be very valueable for forecasting.
