My main Christmas gift from the family was a Weather station - and decent Mac software for it.

So this is currently online from a few places on the Internet, and of course available from a webpage inside the house (and on my chumby)

The Lightsoft Weather Centre - or LWC as it's affectionately known is the key to getting this up and running on a Mac under OsX, and it looks like this :

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and it's superbly customisable, even down to making quite bespoke webpages available - but more about this later.

And best of all - it fits into the home monitoring/automation system I'm building based on the Arduino, where I can pull both internal and external data together from measurement points all over the house and the weather station as well.

The weather station itself is a WS2355, originally from LaCrosse, but now from other suppliers as well as a more generic weather station. It comes with a USB interface to the central console, which in turn uses wireless signals to pull in measurements from external sensors, in this case for humidity, temperature, windspeed, wind direction and rainfall.

The measurements are then stored in a LWC database for display of historical data.