The Westlake Pirates

As mentioned in a previous post, I purchased a dandy little personal weather station (The Vantage Pro 2 Plus) from Davis Instruments. It does all sorts of nifty things like measure temperature (inside and outside), humidity, barometric pressure, rain, wind speed/direction, solar radiation, UV radiation, and probably a bunch of other things that I haven't figured out yet. I also got an add-on that lets me measure the lake temperature (which not surprisingly doesn't change nearly as much as the air temperature), and a cable that sends all the data to the computer for further processing into shiny graphs and charts.

I mounted the station this morning on the radar arch, so I can tell you that right now it's 46F outside and there's very little breeze, without even needing to step outside. What's cooler, though, is that now you can see all the data we see in nearly real-time! Check it out here. That's the permanent link to the weather at the boat (it's also now included in our link list in the left column, so don't worry when this post eventually leaves the main page.) At the moment I'm using one of the default templates included with the software, but in the near future I'm going to spruce that page up quite a bit, so it will include all sorts of historical data on the conditions here. Stay tuned!