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boarding house run by my grandparents. Right across the road is the large barn, but owned by the farmer who lived in the house next door. The house and about an acre and a half were separated from the farm.</p><p id="e25d">The house my wife and I bought in 1992 is a large farmhouse, and across the road is the barn. The same situation; the house is separated from the farm. Both houses are on a hill. Where the wind blows.</p><p id="1e7d">When I was about 12, I received a weather kit for Christmas. It had a thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, sling psychrometer, and cards to record high and low temperatures, rainfall, etc. I believe it came with a book, and I remember studying about the different types of clouds, etc. I loved keeping track of weather data.</p><figure id="3ce9"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*bSKzlJKw0IKEa1Ik.jpeg"><figcaption><a href="http://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a></figcaption></figure><p id="40b8">It wasn’t too much longer when I got an indoor/outdoor thermometer. What a marvelous invention! You know, the ones with the sensor and cable you had to snake out through the window frame. Long before the days of wireless thermometers. Out came the drill to run the cable, then the caulk to seal the hole. What a convenience to be able to read the outdoor temps from the comfort of a warm house!</p><p id="4954">Then there were the handheld wind meters. That was always interesting, standing outside to see what the wind speed was!</p><p id="b470">Fast forward to 2021. Guess what? I still am fascinated with the weather. Wireless technology and electronics have made it even more fun to track the weather. I now have 2 weather stations, with sensors at different locations on my property. My one and a quarter acres. One measures pretty much everything including temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and relative humidity. The other temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity. Believe it or not, conditions can vary even in your yard. The biggest difference is wind speed.</p><figure id="f87a"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*7f_6CihjNBElP3xK.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="456e">Outdoor Weather Sensor/Pfeifer Photo</p><figure id="0f8d"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*d15NIy5v8r3WeBbh.jpeg"><figcaption>Indoor Weather Display/Pfeifer Photo</figcaption></figure><p id="e881">Since my yard is sloped, especially the backyard down to our pond, the temperature

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also varies from the weather sensor located on the highest point of my property to the sensor at the lowest location. It’s amazing, sometimes 5 degrees colder at the lower location behind the pond. The elevation difference is probably about 30 feet.</p><p id="aa74"><b>Share Your Weather Articles</b></p><p id="e686">I am looking forward to this new publication and the many articles that hopefully will be shared here. Thank you in advance for supporting this new publication.</p><div id="78d0" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-trusty-gardener-building-a-second-hugelkultur-bed-an-old-time-german-gardening-method-641f37fa7404"> <div> <div> <h2>The Trusty Gardener-Building a Second Hugelkultur Bed (An Old-Time German Gardening Method)</h2> <div><h3>Taking Advantage of the Unusual January Weather</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*mmRrCzmWmXbM9VPoeGGlPA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="8ad0" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-trusty-gardener-the-seed-catalogs-are-arriving-fa85e8dc70e7"> <div> <div> <h2>The Trusty Gardener-The Seed Catalogs Are Arriving!</h2> <div><h3>It’s Never Too Early to Plan For the Garden</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*FJ-9iR-u7qf9yTmX)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="4e0b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-road-less-travelled-skiing-at-bowman-lake-park-and-in-the-pharsalia-woods-of-ny-state-ad2adfd8d844"> <div> <div> <h2>The Road Less Travelled-Skiing at Bowman Lake Park and in the Pharsalia Woods of NY State</h2> <div><h3>Volume 27-Cross-Country Skiing Season is Here Again</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Y9mRjszE-4NaQGaA8xHg5Q.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Welcome to Weather Watchers Central

Once a Weather Geek Always a Weather Geek

Photo by Chandler Cruttenden on Unsplash

Welcome

Welcome to my latest publication. In addition to my love of gardening, birding. and outdoor adventure, I also love the weather. Those of you who follow my writing already know this. Today I got the idea to start a publication dedicated to everything weather. I am looking forward to writing more weather-related articles and also looking forward to my fellow writers joining and contributing to this new adventure.

So just say the words “add me: and you will be on your way to being a member of this new community here on Medium.

This Winter So Far

So far it has been an up-and-down Winter for sure. A few weeks before Christmas we got several snow storms which brought over a foot of snow combined. The skiing conditions were great. A few days before Christmas we had a warmup followed by an Artic plunge. Then a few days after Christmas a bigger warmup occurred and all the snow is now gone. We have, however, returned to more seasonably cold temperatures but still have no snow at all.

Time will tell what the rest of Winter brings.

It’s been a while since we’ve had a good old-fashioned winter. It reminds me of when I was a kid. Winters weren’t always consistent in the late 1960s and1970s, but for the most part, we got a lot of snow.

That’s when my love of weather began.

A Weather Geek Is Born

I became interested in the weather at an early age. The weather was always interesting in rural Sullivan County NY atop a hilltop at about 1700 feet elevation. The foothills of the Catskill Mountains, ironically only about 75 miles south of where I live now.

The similarities are remarkable. The house I grew up in is a large farmhouse, once a boarding house run by my grandparents. Right across the road is the large barn, but owned by the farmer who lived in the house next door. The house and about an acre and a half were separated from the farm.

The house my wife and I bought in 1992 is a large farmhouse, and across the road is the barn. The same situation; the house is separated from the farm. Both houses are on a hill. Where the wind blows.

When I was about 12, I received a weather kit for Christmas. It had a thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, sling psychrometer, and cards to record high and low temperatures, rainfall, etc. I believe it came with a book, and I remember studying about the different types of clouds, etc. I loved keeping track of weather data.

Etsy

It wasn’t too much longer when I got an indoor/outdoor thermometer. What a marvelous invention! You know, the ones with the sensor and cable you had to snake out through the window frame. Long before the days of wireless thermometers. Out came the drill to run the cable, then the caulk to seal the hole. What a convenience to be able to read the outdoor temps from the comfort of a warm house!

Then there were the handheld wind meters. That was always interesting, standing outside to see what the wind speed was!

Fast forward to 2021. Guess what? I still am fascinated with the weather. Wireless technology and electronics have made it even more fun to track the weather. I now have 2 weather stations, with sensors at different locations on my property. My one and a quarter acres. One measures pretty much everything including temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and relative humidity. The other temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity. Believe it or not, conditions can vary even in your yard. The biggest difference is wind speed.

Outdoor Weather Sensor/Pfeifer Photo

Indoor Weather Display/Pfeifer Photo

Since my yard is sloped, especially the backyard down to our pond, the temperature also varies from the weather sensor located on the highest point of my property to the sensor at the lowest location. It’s amazing, sometimes 5 degrees colder at the lower location behind the pond. The elevation difference is probably about 30 feet.

Share Your Weather Articles

I am looking forward to this new publication and the many articles that hopefully will be shared here. Thank you in advance for supporting this new publication.

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