This is about the weather stations and software used at my location.

Note, I relocated the stations about 5 miles North on August 21st, 2026. Prior data are for the previous location. Although close, there are differences. The new location has more trees so may be more shielded from wind etc.

I have three different weather station brands/models:

Davis Vantage Vue (from 2013, replaced in 2024) - collects outdoor and indoor temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure and rainfall data (tipping gauge).

Weatherflow Tempest (from 2022, replaced in 2024)  - collects outdoor temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction (ultrasonic sensor), barometric pressure, rainfall (haptic sensor), lightning and solar radiation data.

Ecowitt (from 2021 and added onto over several years) - collects outdoor and indoor temperature and humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall (tipping gauge), lightning, air quality (indoor and outdoor), leaf wetness, soil temperature and soil moisture data. Added a laser depth sensor for snow in late 2025. A GW3000 gateway is used.

I have an Ecowitt HP10 webcam sitting in a window acting as a weathercam. It may suffer from some window reflections on sunny days but works well.

I also have a PurpleAir system (from 2023) for outdoor air quality.

Data are collected by various software/data collection packages:

Cumulus MX 5 running on a Windows mini-PC collects Tempest and Ecowitt data, plus PurpleAir.

Meteobridge running on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2 collects data from all three stations plus the PurpleAir.

Data from the Tempest is also used in a weather forecast program (WXSIM) which has been customized for my specific location.  This runs on the Windows mini-PC and forecasts are run at 5am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm and 10pm.