Anemometer is still offline for maintainance. Although water ingress hasn’t been a problem it’s well worth bringing the unit down from the masthead for a few weeks each year to lubricate the bearings and renew the silicon seals. I am hoping to get the lightning detector onto the same position on the mast and so I’m looking out for a 1 metre length of 25mm square section aluminium to support both. This is proving rather tricky at present and so as such we still have no anemometer.

As an aside, I note that the AAG v3 weather station has been discontinued at present. I believe this is due to Dallas Semiconductors ceasing production of the counter IC contained within the unit. Rumour has it that a new version is to be released which is not reliant on this component. All regular stockists seem to have no units left at this present time. Hopefully this will change in the future as it the AAG v3 provides a cheap and easy entry into home weather monitoring with multiple options for home upgrade and experimentation.