I also may be looking for a new Weather Station for my house. My old one was pretty beat up in Kansas when I lived there, and a new one is probably in order. Maybe I can use the stimulus check for something useful? I am still debating the wired / wireless route. My current one is wired, and I am not sure that going wireless would be of any help especially if it reduces the update frequency. it si difficult to get detailed specifications on many of the systems online.

I enjoy your site and when I visit Kansas next I will try to survey some sites for your study.

Thanks for your hard work.

Tamino, Rabbet, Atmoz, Deltoid, the whole bunch gets their server and bandwidth for free.

That’s not true. I pay to have my site hosted and for bandwidth. They may not be as much as what you pay, but it is out of my pocket.

REPLY: I thought your blog was wordpress like this one. Did you opt for a third party host then rather than the free service?

“If you put trash on a pedestal, it is still trash,”

Lol, good one. Though some people call it Art…

I remember an old Oklahoma gal who once told me, “If you put trash on a pedestal, it is still trash,” which sort of expresses my thoughts a bit more colorfully. And as a computer programmer who began coding on weather computers in 1966, I also am a firm believer of “Garbage in, garbage out.”

I spent lots of time collecting and distributing world-wide observations and have a reasonably good memory of how sparse reports are from many areas of the globe. And I remember that we had to do a lot of massaging to make them useful.

ENOUGH rant!!

I’ve contributed to your trip because I believe you furnish a lot of critical information to the problem, information that is not generally available on a piece of paper and therefore unknown to most academics. You have only scratched the surface regarding data quality.

Keep up the good work, and have a good trip.

REPLY: Hi Rod, thanks so much. The entire thing is a huge puzzle for sure.

The problem is that I have been confined to a MSDOS, etc world for several years.

I have an old NT server downstairs that now has no function since the University fired me–I intend to put a real OS on it, but I have not yet.

RELPLY: Try Ubuntu for that old server box, it is really slick. If you don’t want slick, then I recommend “Slack” as in Slackware distro.

better than a vinager and baking soda volcano

Larry Sheldon: Why would you miss grep? It’s still around. Or have you run off to have an affair with awk?

REPLY: Thanks Bernd, much appreciated.

PS. I couldn’t donate much as I’m living almost solely on student loans at the moment, but I wanted to help you with your endeavor. Have a good trip.

PPS. I would buy the software, it looks really really cool. But, alas, I live in the San Joaquin Valley and, well, there really isn’t much weather here to speak of most of the year, and $40 to track the two or three storms we do get…

PPPS. Oh, and unlike TCO, I have great respect for the science of meteorology.

REPLY: Thanks Mike, I apreciate the current help and the surveys you’ve done. BTW many of those Linux users helped out. I have great respect for the Linux OS, (except for the GREP command, which I loathe). ;-)

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

REPLY: Thanks Paminator, that’s one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me. I appreciate it.

REPLY: Thanks so much Atholl, your support is greatly appreciated.