I had to look it up to remember: Big Brother sent me my current weather station a little over four years ago and to be honest I didn’t really expect it to last as long as it has. But we’re giving it a good function test today.
It has measured gusts of over 30mph, screaming up the wash channel*. Takes a lot of wind to make the Lair creak, especially since we shored it up with the bedroom addition eight years ago. But it has creaked a few times today, as March demonstrates how much of a bitch it really can be sometimes.
Anyway, that plastic anemometer didn’t look like much when I put it on the 20′ length of well pipe in January 2021 but it’s still spinning dizzily away out there so I guess I underestimated it.
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*The Lair is down in a sheltered hollow: Up on the top of the ridge we’re getting at least a full gale. The mid-day walkie was memorable.
Is the Lair well-anchored? I’d hate to read that a particularly gusty day had sent it, and you, on a one-way trip to Oz.
Yeah, we’re not going anywhere. But I think back on some early plans and give thanks for older wiser heads.
And I thought I was the only one who used old well pipe for antenna and weather station masts….