Weather I Will!
The brilliant WeatherFlow Tempest.
I admit it. I'm a bit of a nerd. I participated in the science fair. I loved science classes, and I've had a fascination with climate forecasting for a very long time. Not to get political, but what captivates me the most is how often so-called experts are wrong about the weather. There isn't a climate model that's been correct so far. Not one. Even the data they use is corrupt. NOAA was just caught modeling stations that were decommissioned decades ago, and it's become such a political hot potato that it's difficult to know what's real and what isn't. Rest assured, you have a model and proof for every opinion out there, no matter what it is; you can prove yourself right.
Over about the last 25 years, personal weather stations have slowly become popular, and they didn't catch fire until the WeatherFlow Tempest came along. I'd been following the company since their original crowdfunding, and I wanted one of their stations from the day they started raising money. The only reason I didn't buy one is that my 9,000 square foot lot in Kirkland, WA didn't have a place for an accurate reading of anything. I sure wanted one, but I had no place to collect meaningful data. Well, here I do!
Once we had fiber brought into our rural development, I decided that it was time to get one. In fact, I ordered a Tempest the very day I had fiber up and running. I took the entire installation process just as seriously. I found the right pole, took readings in the yard to get the optimum spot for accuracy, and cemented in a 10.5' steel pole that stuck up the recommended eight feet above the lawn. I carefully measured everything and mapped my results for wind speed and direction against Windy.com to make sure I was getting close to identical data. It was.
Find the water bottle-size weather station.
Once I was confident in my readings, I registered the device as a remote personal weather station and made the data available to the world. I placed the weather information in the upper right corner of this website, and it's also a part of Wunderground. It also appears on WeatherFlow's site. You can click anywhere on the weather forecast to access WeatherFlow's weather details. The data collected by my station and thousands of others will contribute to more accurate weather forecasting and trends. It's our data that will set the record straight regarding the accuracy of climate forecasts and, hopefully, dispel any misconceptions in the field of climatology.
I don't believe in man-made climate change due to a few significant lessons from science class that have stayed with me. Simply examining a cross-section of a 1,000-year-old tree or sedimentary rock will demonstrate that the climate is continually undergoing change, some gradual and some rapid. The overwhelming evidence supports the idea that we are not on the verge of a catastrophic climate shift.
Rather than engaging in arguments, I encourage you to be a part of great science and help gather meaningful data. This way, regardless of your beliefs, we can all get it right.