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I have a network connected weather station. I like it. It can pipe data directly into my homeassistant which is pretty handy.

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>Perhaps it's apartment life cramping my HF style, but I've been into APRS ever since I got into ham radio. It's an interesting way to share little bits of data with the world such as messages, positions, and weather information. As such, there are many commercial weather stations available that one can buy and hook up, and they will share their measurements via APRS, using either radio or the Internet (the latter is called APRS-IS). I've seen some online, and they're great. Some of them can measure temperature, humidity, precipiation, wind, radiation, light intensity, and more. The major downside, though, is that these are expensive and cumbersome. There are few hobbies that really embrace the hacker ethos, and amateur radio is one of them. It's the only service where the FCC explicitly allows operators to build their own compliant equipment.

I have a network connected weather station. I like it. It can pipe data directly into my homeassistant which is pretty handy. Archive: https://archive.today/oQuaX From the post: >>Perhaps it's apartment life cramping my HF style, but I've been into APRS ever since I got into ham radio. It's an interesting way to share little bits of data with the world such as messages, positions, and weather information. As such, there are many commercial weather stations available that one can buy and hook up, and they will share their measurements via APRS, using either radio or the Internet (the latter is called APRS-IS). I've seen some online, and they're great. Some of them can measure temperature, humidity, precipiation, wind, radiation, light intensity, and more. The major downside, though, is that these are expensive and cumbersome. There are few hobbies that really embrace the hacker ethos, and amateur radio is one of them. It's the only service where the FCC explicitly allows operators to build their own compliant equipment.

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Imagine the kind of weather modeling we could do if absolutely everyone had one of these, and all of the data was fed into a central system that anyone could access. Not only would you know exactly what parts of town the rain is actually falling in, but with the wind speed/direction, changes in barometric pressure, temperature etc, we would be able to build better weather models that are not only more accurate, but refine it so welll that we could have messages sent to everybody telling them when it will rain next at their address.

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Citizen Science. I pipe data into a few other systems but I agree. That is a stupid amount of data even if in text only and compressed. I should know, I worked on some of that kind of stuff a long time ago.

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We need something like this. Imagine the different understandings of weather that could be made when there is now data from different elevations / each floor of a building /cell tower/large tranmission power lines. That would make us ask questions nobody has asked before and lead towards figuring it out. Having the ability to process all of that is something worthy of some kind of shared world project where all countries chip in and reap the rewards.

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Sadly, it wont happen because no profit. Companies like Amazon have been trying to get the gov to "let them store the data for free" that they collect... So they can sell access to others in their cloud env as if you were in the same datacenter.

Its a long and very frustrating story. Though, we are talking about PB worth of data easily and not even touching on the compute needed to properly process it.