[philipgm]

It is all interesting and useful. 

It was quite interesting at a meteorology meet one of the discussions was how data collection is changing from a relatively few manual stations around the world to using the data from 100's of 1000's of pws and other stations and how to build algorithms that could sort out the huge variation in the accuracy of the data and deal with the volume.

Looking at a wunderground map it is remarkable how consistent the readings are across numerous stations, but invariably there are outliers which are feeding the results from failed sensors to wunderground. I have one reading which records 13000mm of rain in a day and have been unable to remove it.

I think we all add to that data in a positive way and all contribute to this mass of data whilst also adding a little to the confusion for good measure.  

6 weeks to go before I head your way, and maybe a weatherduino station will appear in Beach Haven.

I have converted a Davis Vantage pro weather station as the old electronics was failing.
The solar sensor seems to be fine so I am about to start testing it with the Weatherduino.
This should give me far better solar data. Watch this space.  
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