

I wonder what the “experts” will say now.įor all the beautiful days there is a cost - dark skies, violent storms. The nearby Trinity River is currently at flood stage. Now we’ve had two years of record rains, filling all the reservoirs over capacity and flooding the rivers. We’ve had droughts where we were told by “experts” that we’d never recover. However, weather is one thing technology has never tamed. You can see the totals and graph almost everything over time. The weather station wirelessly transmits to a full-screen base-station in the office - which also records indoor temperatures and humidity. Registration was straightforward and in no time the Monolithic Domes KTXITALY5 weather station went live earlier this year.

With the external weather station installed, a link needed to be made through the internet to Weather Underground. We installed the system on the tower used to distribute WiFi signals around Monolithic’s campus. We went for the more sensible $400 model. Some cost over $1000 and feature ultrasonic wind sensors. They have a list of recommended weather stations on their website. Weather Underground is like an open source weather service with over 180,000 personal weather stations in the United States. South and it’s got all the bells and whistles with temperature, wind speed, barometric pressure, rainfall sensor, humidity, data logging. Ever wonder what the weather’s like at Monolithic? No? Okay, but just in case you were wondering, we have the answer - a Weather Underground connected weather station.
