GotGarlic
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88°F, partly cloudy and thunderstorms on the way. ☁
. (I have crystals suspended by the window so that, when the sunlight shines on them they throw rainbows across the room. Currently the sun is shining on one of my crystals which is throwing a rainbow directly onto my reading glasses! They are rainbow rimmed!)
Yes, but when Weatherbug's nearest reporting station available to us is eight miles away, that's the temperature reading we get.CG, Google Weather Bug. It will give you a more accurate report of your weather. It is free. Mine comes from the fire station house just a couple of blocks from my home. The weather bureau has the equipment stationed all over the country...
Yup, the Great Himself straightened me out after I had been here.Actually, Weatherbug has backyard stations, too, both professional and volunteer: https://www.earthnetworks.com/Products/WeatherStation.aspx I should install Weather Underground and compare.
I'm mostly concerned with temps, humidity and dew point. Wind speed, etc, isn't as important when I'm in the house. If I hear the siding crackling or see whole small trees in motion, I know to panic! The two in-town locations can vary widely in their daytime highs. I know there can be small temp differences even in our yard due to microclimates, but when the temperature by the heavily-wooded pond near the post office is registering 95 and the one in an equally shady neighborhood street is reading 82 or lower (and they are about 3 miles from each other) you know one of those units has a fever - or is sunbathing. Right now they are only a degree apart, which is the norm at nighttime.But just because one is closest to you doesn't necessarily mean that it's the most accurate...