Weather station for the range...

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Vana2

Vana2

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I've found that a small weather station is a convenient accessory for the shooting range.

I'm fortunate to have a shooting range in the backyard. Being retired, I shoot whenever the mood strikes me but when testing and tuning I prefer calm conditions.

Watching for a calm period required me to get up to check the wind flags. My wife (probably tired of me jumping up and down all the time) bought me a small weather station to save me running to the window every couple of minutes.

The unit works great, it's inexpensive, easy to install and convenient. I can see wind and temperature on the wi-fi connected display on my table.

Thought it might be something you would be interested in.

Cheers!

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Raider03 said:
Nice, do you know how fast it responds to changes in wind speed?
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The unit displays current wind speed (9 mph right now, the digital readout lags behind the graph by a couple of seconds) in real-time, highest speed over the last hour (14) and over the last 24 hours (20).

Temperatures and humidity are displayed. Units of measure are user configurable.

Cheers!

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JimD said:
I can see one of my wind flags from my recliner. I find it difficult to see the direction, especially towards me versus going away on my wind flags. A weather station that shows direction would be of more interest to me.
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Can understand the benefits of displaying wind direction.

In my case, because of the topography, if there's a wind it's usually swirling anyway. I have windicators every 5 yards for that reason.
 
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I find any sort of wind that stays pretty constant to be a lot easier to deal with than wind that changes direction a lot. North to south is left to right for me. East to West pushes pellets down. Winds today did not exceed 8 mph according to the weather report but they were flipping around a lot pushing both directions for windage and elevation. But the more I shoot in the wind the better I get, slowly.
 
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