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A personal weather station (PWS) lets you measure your own backyard weather, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, rainfall, UV, and solar radiation, independent of distant airport observations. When you connect your PWS here, your data joins a public network that improves regional forecasting, supports climate research, and gives your local community access to truly local conditions. Whether you run a budget Ecowitt setup or a professional-grade Davis Vantage Pro2, our upload platform supports it, connect yours now.
A personal weather station is a complete set of meteorological sensors that you install at your home or property to measure the weather at your specific location. A typical PWS includes a thermometer for air temperature, a hygrometer for humidity, a barometer for atmospheric pressure, an anemometer for wind speed, a wind vane for wind direction, a rain gauge for precipitation, and often UV and solar radiation sensors. The sensors connect to a console or gateway that processes readings and uploads data to weather networks. Modern PWS hardware ranges from compact all-in-one units costing under $200 to professional-grade installations exceeding $2,000.
Official weather observation networks have significant gaps, most airport stations are located in flat open areas that don't represent the microclimates of nearby valleys, hilltops, urban heat islands, or coastlines. Personal weather stations fill these gaps. When you upload your PWS data to a public network, you contribute to better local forecasts, more accurate severe weather warnings in your area, and historical climate records that researchers depend on. Citizen weather observer networks like CWOP, Weather Underground, and the WMO Global Basic Observing Network have collectively produced billions of observations and dramatically improved short-range forecasting in populated regions.
Our upload platform supports all major brands through the same widely-used protocol. Ecowitt has become the dominant value brand with the GW1100, GW2000, and HP2551 gateways supporting dozens of compatible sensors, its "Customized" upload option connects here directly. Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 and Vantage Vue remain the professional-grade gold standard for accuracy and longevity, and connect via free bridge software like WeeWX or Meteobridge. Ambient Weather WS-2000 and WS-5000 series offer a balance of features and price with native custom-server support. AcuRite Atlas and older Weather-Underground-compatible stations work the same way, since they all speak the same upload protocol.
Proper PWS siting matters as much as the hardware. Temperature and humidity sensors should be 1.5–2 metres above ground in a shaded, well-ventilated location away from buildings and pavement. Anemometers should be mounted 10 metres above ground or 3 metres above any nearby obstruction. Rain gauges need clear sky exposure and level mounting. Once installed, calibrate sensors against a reference and verify your timezone, elevation, and station coordinates before uploading data. See the connect page for the exact 4 values your console needs.
Your station's public page shows temperature, dew point, relative humidity, sea-level-adjusted barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, today's rainfall, UV index, and solar radiation, whichever of these your hardware reports. You choose whether your station is public (visible to anyone, and listed in the directory) or private, and you can change that at any time from your management page.