How To Utilise Weather Alarms To Optimise Your Home Garden
3 Ways a Weather Station Can Protect Your Home Garden from Extreme Weather
A home weather station provides hyperlocal weather information to help you plan and run your life – including your garden. This article explains how you can use home weather data and your weather station’s features to enhance the health of your plants and, when the weather decides to turn nasty, avoid catastrophic damage.
Unless you have a divine connection, you can’t control the weather – but with the right information delivered with enough warning, you can prepare for the worst!
The three key ingredients that make up a gardener’s effective weather information system are:
- hyperlocal temperature, rain and wind speed data
- the ability to forecast; and
- accessible adverse weather warnings and alarms.
Let’s take a closer look to understand the importance of each of these elements.
1. Temperature, Rainfall and Wind Speed
Local weather data for these parameters is a must-have for any keen gardener. Why?
- When the temperature is too hot, your plants may wilt, droop – even die. If it’s too cold, frost may threaten.
- If it rains enough today, skip watering and save time - and your water bill. However, too much rainfall may require emergency action, like digging drainage or transplanting precious specimens.
- Excessive wind gusts can strip leaves or fruit from plants - maybe break newly sprouted or delicate stems.
In summary, local real-time temperature, rain and wind speed data will allow you to monitor your plants’ environmental conditions properly, make informed decisions and take appropriate action when necessary.
2. Forecasting
Local media weather forecasts are typically general in nature, catering to an audience over an extensive area. Unfortunately, forecasts can be inaccurate for the geographic coordinates of your garden, and that’s no good for managing your property.
A weather station capable of producing up-to-the-minute hyperlocal weather forecasts can be a tremendous help when making all-important decisions like what and when to plant, weed or harvest, the best time to work in the yard, the right clothing for the weather conditions, and so on.
3. Adverse Weather Warnings and Alarms
A home weather station with alarm functionality will warn you when weather conditions that could damage your plants are imminent or happening. Some WIFI-enabled stations send instant push notifications to your phone when bad weather is forecast or arrives – so you can spring into action!
Excellent Weather Stations for Anyone with Green Thumbs
Your Instrument Choice team has included a selection of their favourite weather stations suitable for home gardeners. If you would like some expert guidance to find the right station for your unique weather monitoring needs, contact us!
7 Inch Colour WiFi Wireless Weather Station
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1. Indoor Temperature |
7. Wind Speed |
Forecasting:
This product indicates future weather conditions using sunny, partly sunny, cloudy, rainy, stormy and snowy icons. In addition, weather tendency indicators - rising, steady and falling – allow you to track weather trends based on three-hour data samples that update every half an hour.
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Tendency Indicators |
Tendency Meaning |
Humidity |
Temperature |
Pressure |
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Rising |
Rising >3% |
Rising ≥1°C |
Rising > 1hpa |
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Steady |
Steady ≤3% |
Steady <1°C |
Steady ≤ 1hpa |
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Falling |
Falling >3% |
Falling ≥1°C |
Falling > 1hpa |
Weather Alarms:
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1. Indoor high temperature |
7. Outdoor high humidity |
Click here to discover the unique features that make this weather station a popular choice for gardeners |
V40A-PRO Wireless WiFi Professional Weather Station
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1. Temperature |
7. Wind Chill |
Forecasting:
Get easy to understand forecasts using icons for sunny, partly sunny, cloudy, rain, thunderstorm and snow.
Further, trend arrows update every 15-minutes to reflect changes over the past hour.
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UP ARROW: For this to show, the temperature will rise by 1°C, or the humidity will go up by 3%RH or more within the current hour. |
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DOWN ARROW: For this to show, the temperature will fall by 1°C or the humidity drop by 3%RH or more within the current hour. |
Weather Alarms:
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Console Alarms
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LaCrosse View App Alarms Multi-Sensor 1. Wind speed and direction Temperature/Humidity Sensor 3. Outdoor LOW Temperature |
Look no further than the V40 Pro for user customisable alerts sent instantly to your smartphone.
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1. Temperature |
7. Rain Rate |
Forecasting:
The indoor console’s easy to understand forecast icons inform you what to expect - sun, partly cloudy, rain, or snow. View this information both in the 12-hour icon forecast (below) or a 24–48 hour ticker-tape forecast along the bottom of the console.
Weather Alarms:
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Variable |
Alarms |
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Barometric Pressure Trend |
Storm Warning - uses trend value falling rate |
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Inside Humidity |
High and low |
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Outside Humidity |
High and low |
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Dew Point |
High and low |
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Rain |
Flash Flood Alarm - uses current 15-minute rainfall total |
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Storm |
Storm Alarm - uses current storm rainfall total |
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Rain Rate |
High |
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Inside Temperature |
High and low |
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Outside Temperature |
High and low |
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Heat Index Temperature |
High |
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Wind Chill Temperature |
Low |
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Wind Speed |
High and 10-minute average |
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Time and Date |
User-set the alarm sounds for one minute |
Suitable for home and professional applications.
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The Final Word
A home weather station is a wonderful addition to any backyard garden. When used correctly, it can help take your gardening to the next level. The products mentioned above represent just a few of the many weather stations that will help enhance your gardening adventures.
Click here to browse Instrument Choice’s complete selection of weather stations
For more information on weather stations or assistance finding the best station for your application, speak with an Instrument Choice Scientist: Call 1300 737 871 or email [email protected].
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