OK, so I now have the absolute basic weather station set up in my home - Totally off-grid, and all of it completely anologe, the way I wanted it to be, (without any need for changing batteries, nor any internet connection to get information from). The idea was to have something completely of my own, and totally independent of everyone and everything! So far I have a wet and dry thermometer, to accurately measure humidity. A barometer, for getting the correct air pressure. And a minimum maximum thermometer, enabling me to record peaks of temperatures in a day. As time goes by, I will be adding more instruments to this wall in my house, (a wall which is exposed to outside elements). Some of those are available at my favorite online store. However some I will now have to make myself... But to just get started, this is basically it, (for now). Of course, to make sense of what the wet and dry thermometer is telling you - You'll need this table printed and hung bedsides it. Other weather instruments which are in the pipeline, but haven't yet arrived to me in the mail - Are these below. I actually don't need the glass bulb air pressure instrument, as I already have the barometer. But I bought it just as a backup, (in case I ever had any reason to start doubting the readings of the barometer)... Similarly, I actually didn't need the wet and dry thermometer for humidity also. As humidity and temperature scales are also incorporated into the barometer unit. So there is some duplication and overlapping going on here. But again, this is all to insure that I don't have any reason to doubt these instruments. Yes I know, I'm obsessed with the weather.
Yes, rain gage is already in the pipeline, (still in the mail). Will arrive in a few weeks. However it's plastic, not glass. So I don't know how long it will survive outside. As most clear plastic objects outside (under direct sunlight) first become yellow, after which they crack and crumple. So this one which I have ordered, I will have to replicate in some other material - Probably sheets of glass, held together with weatherproof epoxy. It's volume will be calibered with the one I will soon get. And of course, anemometer too. But unfortunately, they are digital now. Which means that either I will have to keep them charged at all times, of keep changing the batteries - So not capable of 24/7 constant duty outdoors, (too delicate)... Therefore this, I will just have to make myself, old school style, anologe, and unpowered. Other instrument I plan on making is the campbell-stroke recorder, (as it isn't available anywhere). Fortunately, the glass crystal ball is available online. So building everything else around it will be easy. Maybe, if I feel like it, I will later add a big Galileo thermometer also, just for fun. And perhaps a Crookes radiometer too, again, only for fun. But they aren't really needed. I only like them because they too are unpowered instruments. Which is the theme I want to maintain here in this project. The real challenge will be making a tide clock, and a sidereal time clock, (used for astronomy). Plus a seismograph (to record earthquakes). Also thinking about building a magnetometer, to observe geomagnetic storms. But these won't be unpowered instruments. So I will decide later if I should invest in these or not? A radiation Geiger counter, I already have, in case I ever need to measure background cosmic radiation... What else? A weather balloon launchpad maybe? It just depends on how extreme will this obsession take me.
