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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 10/4/2026 (lemmy.nz)

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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I hope we dont get the rain that we got last month, they estimate we had 300-400mm in the hills above our local water catchment and it wiped out the Reservoir.

The weather station is all DIY built around ESP boards, some temp probes and BGT-W815S pro. I scored for free, as only the wind speed/direction is working, the temp/pressure and rain all seem to supply corrupted data

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago

Oh nice! I've been wanting some fancy thing like this: https://ambientweather.com/ws-5000-ultrasonic-smart-weather-station

But that's the most expensive one. The cheapest is about $150 USD. But I have trouble buying a cheap one when the expensive ones have so much more, but the expensive ones are too expensive 😆. Also I don't have anywhere to put it anyway. Not that keen on a pole in the middle of the lawn.