January was snowy,  breaking a 130 year record with 9.8” in Florida. And we happened to be camped at a State Park just a few miles away from where the new record snow depth was set. 🤪

Here in the mountains of northern Utah at 8300 feet (2530 metres) in the far western edge of the Uintah Mountains ...

Dear WeatherCat observers of all the moods of winter,

It appears to be up to me to start the assessments of 2025.  Here is the summary of January at Canebas Weather Station with the usual plug to Grand and WeatherCatRCP



Now that I have a map conveniently stored on my web hosting service, here is the approximate location for the curious:



Open this map on OpenStreetMap

As can be seen between the map and the data, 2025 is starting off very dry for the western parts of the United States.  Only time will tell if the trend will continue through the rest of winter.

So who's next?

Edouard

Let us know what you finally decide to purchase.

Sure 😁

I went for a WH3080 again.
https://www.foshk.com/weather_professional/wh3080.html
Simply because its price is unbeatable (EUR 120 / USD 125)  and because it fits my
needs (no high precision instruments or really professional hardware required).
Say feeding data to https://michelswunderland.de/weather/current_en.html is
the only purpose more or less.
And… replacing the old one with the same type provided for a “smooth transition” 😎

The new outdoor sensor unit is different, though. It makes a more robust impression.
Sensor power is provided by solar cells and a supercapacitor (and 2 AA Lithium batteries
for “emergency cases” - said to last ~1 year) as opposed to the old one that had
rechargeable 1.5V (!! _not_ 1.2V !) batteries. The latter gave up after 5 years and
replacement wasn’t available… production terminated… Ordinary 1.2V rechargeable
batteries had to be replaced every 10 days or so since these aren’t compatible
with the old sensor’s charging circuitry…

It seems - fingers crossed - the new console unit does not suffer from the USB-comms
flaw any longer. See https://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=1931.msg17488#msg17488
Comms haven’t failed, yet. But it remains to be seen whether this is a stable status
since the new console has been in ops for just 4 days now.

  Regards !

    Michael

We'll see if this ever happens again. Perhaps it is a forewarning of an alien invasion. The aliens send out signals to their spies on earth and the weather station receives them. A machine-language analysis of the false data may reveal their secrets.

Hahahahaha. I think you are on to something. Another option, inspired by me watching Interstellar again just last night, is that the anomaly could be you from the future trying to tell you in this timeline something that might save humanity. Keep us in the loop.