The Weather Station - 2025 Upgrade

The equipment now used to generate the weather information, as of August 2025, is a Ecowitt HP2561 Wireless Weather station. This has a wireless connection to an externally mounted WS60 sensor array.

WS60 sensor array is mounted on a pole at the roof peak. Comprising a thermometer, hygrometer (to measure humidity), rainfall gauge, solar radiation sensor, wind direction gauge and an anemometer (to measure wind-speed). The sensor unit is now also solar powered.

The Ecowitt HP2561 Base Unit

This is a major upgrade from the previous black on grey LCD panel of the Watson Base Station. Now full colour with a whole host of extra features and a much better readability. The unit can also transmit its data directly to the website without the need for a PC to be kept on 24 hours a day. As an added bonus, a small 1GB microSD card can store 10 years of data. It still cannot compete with a more precise professional setup such as the Davis Vantage Pro but, they also start around £1000...