My new weather station was delivered sometime today, have just come home and it's sitting here.
I'm glad it's here of course, but lately I get the feeling that I just can't win! Let me explain why....
Over the last 2-3 days (well AFTER the station was paid for but BEFORE it arrived of course) we've had the most spectacular run of HEAVY DOWNPOUR (39 mm in 45 mins at one point) followed by nil rain for a while then DOWNPOUR again, intermittent bursts of HIGH WINDS followed by almost none, temps up and down like crazy - all the very things I would have LOVED to have been able to measure and chart with the weather station ..... it was some fo the most amazingly changable weather, almost like nothing I've seen living here over the last 20 years.
Tonight I'm probably off out to do my "intermittent" public outreach gig with the local Council's "Moon Walk" night (held on weeknights nearest Full Moon). It's worth going off course as the skies appear clear (typical every full moon lately) so I won't get much of a chance to play with my brand new weather station tonight at all.
So now I have the station, no rain, no wind, clear skies dripping with moon glow, and no time to play Weatherman anyway!
I used to only berate the "Useless clouds and damn rain!" but over the weekend I was savagely bemoaning the "Useless clouds and the damn UNMEASURED rain, wind, etc!"
I need a new hobby......
