The unfortunate thing is, I don’t really have a place to put it for wind without it being right on the public fence, and being on a 20 foot pole to be the same height as this. It’s sheltered by the house from the east and will get a wind tunnel effect from between the houses, but other than that it should be ideal here.

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    1. Happy Birthday!
    2. They’re great. You’ll be surprised how often you’ll run to check it after seeing the generic weather and compare them. Mine also isn’t in the right place for the wind, but it gets enough I can pretty confidently multiply by a percentage to get the real number. I hope you find yours as interesting as I do.
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      Thank you!

      We already do that, the city has lots of microclimates, can be snowing in one part of the city while others sunbathe, so you can’t trust the weather too much as it’s done at the airport on the other end of the city. We are also in a valley, you’re right though, it’s all hella interesting.

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        As someone just considering this, what model? What kind would you recommend?

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          This is the Acu-rite 5-1 with screen. I can’t give any information on other brands, I did some light research to see pricing, then left my wife with get me a fancy one.

          The one thing I need to see if this does as was on my potential to do list was see if this is home assistant capable, it does have an app and connects to pc I think, still learning and figuring it out to be honest.

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              No I did not, I just quickly looked up a few to see the high end price (like make sure they weren’t $500-$1000) before asking the wife.

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      It’s got a funnel and collects rainwater to measure it.

      I’m gonna calibrate it sometime this week hopefully, it takes 20 minutes though, you fill a cup with a cup of water. Make a pinhole in the bottom and let it drip out, 1 cup says it should say 1.06” of water, and should drip 25 times before the internal bucket tips and marks an increment.

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          No I don’t think so, is there an electronic sensor for that?

          I know you can do a rough calculation for a foot of snow being about an inch of precipitation, but snow can vary in densities as well. So would they melt and do the inverse or would it just be an optical sensor and a tube?

          Now I’m curious and my look up an electric snow gauge later!