Starstruck

Over the past few hours the weather station has been reporting temperatures in excess of 80°C and extremely high winds. These values are clearly incorrect. At other times the station is failing to report anything at all – the web page times out. I’m not able to deal with this at the moment, but I [...]

My cold lingers – right now it’s in my ears, and I’m moderately deaf – so I can’t go out much. A quick dash to and from the office from the car is about my limit. I think the office building is sick, though, since when I enter the building I start to go through [...]

We’ve had some amazing weather for January, and I took advantage of it to set up the weather station. However, we now seem to be moving back to more normal conditions – it’s snowing as I look outside the kitchen door, and the rain sensor is on the ground (though apparently still working). We had [...]

Everybody talks about the weather, though there’s precious little we can do about it. I generally am quite aware how lousy the weather is right now, but ask me about how it was a month ago, or even how quickly things have changed over the course of the day, and I’m completely out of [...]

Is it really better to journey than to arrive? If so, it looks as though I’m going on a trip.

I picked up a weather station over the weekend, a Lacrosse WS-2310 in its Weather Channel incarnation. This features a serial connection for a computer – one of the selling points (the other being price) – [...]

Ack! According to the Clear Sky clock there will be clear skies after local midnight on Thursday night – Friday morning, in other words. However, the prediction also shows that transparency will be much worse than normal. No clouds, then, but you still won’t see anything. On the off-chance that this was wrong, I took [...]

What a delightful combination!

I spent the weekend grumbling and growling about the rain during the day and the snow during the night. Even when it stopped snowing it stayed cloudy, so this was another socked-out weekend. It used to be that when you had bad weather you knew that everyone else in your circle of [...]