![]() ![]() If anyone has an update, please post it below or send me a PM, and I'll add it to this post. As support changes and/or new products become available, I'll update this list. Given that we live in a world populated largely by mediocre human beings, this sort of a network may succeed in a mediocre way because simple machines do their job whereas the people refuse to.Ĭertainly not the sort of weather monitoring network we all would prefer I think, but we might come to use it anyway if becomes as successful as it might.This will be a list of currently available Macintosh native Weather Station software. Like so many other things in our modern world, I sure wish every personal weather station were installed and maintained properly with meticulous care and devotion. I find the concept deeply offensive, but I cannot argue with the realities of a populace with a very low attention span. They might be able to compensate for problems like lacking sufficient radiation shields and certainly a very dense collection of sensors could be really useful in tracking the start of rain over a region. At the same time, the low cost and simplicity might generate so much interest that they could have a much greater density of stations than current networks like Weather Underground. If the stations are tough enough, the BloomSky system can be neglected and still generate good data. Lots of people are interested in the weather, but how many people are passionate enough to really keep a weather station up and reliable? Bad data is arguably worse than no data and plenty of people put up weather stations and then neglect them for some other pursuit. Systems like Weather Underground are running into a problem that is mirrored on this forum. This sort of a system could really be a game changer in the "broadcasting of current weather conditions" market. Between its simplicity and very low price of $169, this will attract a very different kind of weather enthusiast - the busy and lazy (aka geek?) It is truly designed as a "plant and forget" weather station. The key failing it would appear is that it makes no attempt to measure wind-speed, but everything else it does in a manner that is totally owner-independent. Here is the specifications of the station they are trying to deploy: ![]() However, reading a little more has changed my mind a bit. My first impression of this was definitely skeptical. There is a San Francisco start-up firm with designs to take on the big personal weather station networks like Weather Underground called: BloomSky. The last bit of news is in a similar vein but perhaps should not be dismissed so lightly. Perhaps we should start some sort of a betting pool to guess how long this one will last! Weather-what!?!?!?Īs if there aren't enough services soliciting data from us personal weather station owners there is yet another one: The top item in the update to WeatherSnoop was support for Weathercloud. ![]() This leads to the second bit of odd news. Many of us believed it had finally gone to abandoned software heaven, but apparently the developer is still kickin' at least a bit. The first was that a rival to WeatherCat: WeatherSnoop finally got an update: Circumstances conspired to bring us 3 snippets of news related to computing and personal weather stations. ![]()
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