> Does anyone else have any experiences they can share?
>

I tried the weather station route and  found a simple max/min station
(ambient weather model ws-1171) and a rain gauge was more than enough,
coupled with the internet. I tend to go either all out or KISS so settled
on keep it simple for my station.

I check a couple of sites in my area ( weather underground, intellicast,
and accuweather ) and can get history and forecasts, but there often are
local sites that do all the work for you. In my area it is

http://www.bathmaineweather.com/index.php

done by a local weather enthusiast. I like to compare my readings with
theirs and we are only a few degrees different, but rainfall amounts are
the same.

I use the readings for an excel spreadsheet to compute degree days for my
garden and fruit orchard.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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