I recently installed a new weather station near my pistol range in Idaho. Barb gently mocked me about it because it is less than three-quarters of a mile from the Boomershoot weather station. The pistol range is also about 120 feet higher in elevation. I insisted the Boomershoot site has different weather than the pistol range. She just smirked as I tried to explain.
Here is today’s proof.
Boomershoot temperature, humidity and wind:
Pistol range temperature, humidity, and wind:
What about the old weather station https://www.boomershoot.com/ShootingLineCam/CamFull.jpg has not updated for a while.
The Boomershoot webcam is a problem I have been avoiding. It draws too much power and during the winter the batteries drain power faster than the solar panels can supply it. There are also issues with getting the FTP working on the Boomershoot.com host. Someday, “when I have lots of time”, I’ll work on that again.
Thanks for your reply it is a very sweet picture almost a sunset snappy.
The term “microclimate” was invented for this.
Having worked with a lot of sensors in my career my first guess would be that at least part of the difference was due to the “perception” of the sensors. They probably were not laboratory calibrated to provide nearly identical outputs across the range of inputs. Heck they’re probably not even the same make and model, and if they are are, were they manufactured at the same time, before the thermistor or other internal components were changed in the manufacturing process to use the cheapest parts available that met the minimum specifications? I’ll take your word for it that the two nearby areas have slightly different microclimates but you may wish to put both sensor suites side by side and get baseline measurements when the environment is identical for both
If your concerns were correct, I would expect the reported results to be highly correlated with perhaps an offset or scale factor difference. This set of data does not show this sort of thing.
Some days, there is a temperature offset of one degree one way or another. This day was not one of them.
I suspect there was a persistent fog at the Boomershoot site (notice the difference in humidity between the two locations).
Thanks for the suggestion.
Mirco-climates. Ya, Ma taught me how to read those when I was young.
She said to watch the cattle as storms move through.
They will move to as perfect a spot available and bunch up for storms. Pretty amazing to watch. They seem to always know the best place to go.
Prevailing winds and sunshine on opposite sides of a hill. Going to be different.
I live 4 miles outside of my local small town (less as the crow flies).
In the winter there is almost always more snow at my house than in town and my car thermometer, for what it is worth, shows town as 4 to 7 degrees warmer than my house.
This county is over 5,000 square miles and under 6,000 people, so it’s sparsely populated…