Archive for June 17, 2016

Before and After Rain: To Predict and to Use

Looks like it might rain!” – we sometimes jokingly quote the phrase of the famous cartoon character. But you want to know for sure what awaits us – a shower or a cloudless sky, and the testimony of numerous online weather services, often does not coincide. Will home weather stations help us? We’ll try to understand, and to get benefit from the last rain by saving water.

To be a meteorologist yourself

Is it possible to know the forecast, for example, for tomorrow, without looking at a weather report? It is possible, and very easy. No dancing with a tambourine, only science and tech! Glass thermometers and grandfather’s wall barometers were long time ago replaced by modern high-tech gadgets.

01Personal weather station is a compact but extremely functional device. It lets you know almost everything about the current weather conditions – temperature and humidity, pressure, wind speed and direction, rainfall, as well as the forecast for all of the above for a period from 12 hours to a day. Some instances even report about the approaching storm and measure the intensity of ultraviolet radiation. Read more