CHRISTMAS
Gift ideas for maplotters
forecast what's likely to
happen weatherwise, often
by no more a scientific
method that gazing into the
sky to catch glimpses of cloud
any smallholders
build-up on the horizon.
have a rain gauge
If you would like to do
in their gardens,
something a little more
and some keep comprehenscientific, and have a handle
sive records of rainfall on their on more environmental
plots. Others, a bit more
factors on your land, such as
ambitious perhaps, attempt to
Home
weather
station
M
relative humidity,
barometric pressure,
wind director and
speed, and maximum
and minimum
temperatures ~ and
have all this (and
more) information
readily available on
your computer, a
battery (or mains)
ECO2950 home weather station
powered personal weather
station from Eco Concept of
Pretoria East, the ECO2950,
should be on your shopping
list this Christmas.
The device comprises two
parts which connect
wirelessly over a maximum
distance of 100m. One is
mounted outside and does
the gathering of information,
including rainfall, wind
direction and wind speed
while the other is a digital
receiver, processor and
display of the information
collected.
The latter can also automatically upload your data to your
computer or, better still, to a
network of all users of similar
devices in your area to give a
more comprehensive picture
of weather conditions. To
view this information, and see
the weather history recorded
by these devices around
Gauteng, go to
www.wunderground.com.
Being electronic, it enables
much more data to be
collected conveniently
through the day. Thus, while
a conventional rain gauge
simply catches the rainfall and
gives you a total until you
empty it, this device measures individual rainfall
events, recording the amount
for individual showers.
And using all the information
at its disposal, the device is
able to make simple weather
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