I moved the weather station at about noon today from the back gate between the llama pasture and the garden to the gate at the service yard. It is about nine feet up still, and it is facing north with the solar panel faced south. I have not verified the direction other than to sight it off Sedgwick Peak. This puts it closer to the house, and all I can do is hope that that does nto obstruct the anenometer or the vein for speed and direction of the wind.
I had to make this change because of the new pivot irrigation line that went in on the neighbor’s farm last year. I had moved it then and thougth it was far enough that his last head would not fill the rain guage, but, I was wrong about that. Being one who is not going to say no to free water on the yard, I let it go, and let him keep spraying the place. I am sure I can give a reasonable estimafrom last year’s records of what the rain equivelant is of his sprinkler head, but having been out there and sprayed by it myself, I can tell you it is like being hit in the face with three or four gallons of water from eighty feet or more.
I won’t be collecting water in the rain guage from his irrigation line this year. It would take a pretty good wind to carry it in now, and if it does, it probably deserves to be there. I am almost out of good places to put the weather station without putting it across the street.
The weather station appears in good working order, and operating correctly. I think it would be a good idea to order a replacement battery now so is here at the ready when the one in the station fails and needs replacing. I expect to be able to tell when it has based on weather not reporting in the nights from the station to the reciever inside the house. I don’t want to miss records, so that is the rationale behind this.
I have set up categories on the blog in order to be able to find weather station maintenance records herein.