My Weather Station

Keeping an Eye on the Skies (and the Bands)
Anyone who's spent time in the ham radio hobby knows we love to build, monitor, and tinker — and we love a data stream that just works. So I finally got around to putting up a weather station here in Holly Springs, North Carolina, and I'm happy to say it's been humming away nicely.

It does the usual suspects — air temperature, "feels like," humidity, dew point, barometric pressure, and rainfall — but I like that it tracks a few things I otherwise wouldn't catch: wind averages and gusts, the UV index, solar radiation, and even lightning in the area. The dashboard also keeps rolling history graphs, so I can glance back over the last several days and see how humidity, wet‑bulb, wind, and daylight have been trending. That kind of "what's been happening out there" context is genuinely useful, whether you're planning a backyard POTA session, chasing a band opening, or just deciding whether the antenna mast is in a safe spot for a storm.

You can check the live numbers and the full history here: [LINK].

A small but important note for the rest of you out there: the station isn't just for my own dashboard. It also syndicates its data to Weather Underground, so the readings feed into the broader public network. It's a nice little way to give something back to the community — one more node contributing a few honest data points about the weather in this corner of the Carolinas.

If you've got a station of your own, I'd love to hear what you're running and where. And if you're on the fence about setting one up, I'd say do it: it's a satisfying project, and the data keeps paying dividends long after the install.

73, and clear skies over Holly Springs.