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** Inaccurate readings **

I noticed that the weather station was supplying inaccurate readings for rainfall. Usually, this is the result of some object blocking the drain from the rain bucket, or a stray pine needle blocking...

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** Dried out the Temp/Humidity Sensor **

Hair dryers are wonderful tools. :)The unfortunate side-effect of the drying out is that the temperature will read artificially high and the humidity artificially low until they reach the actual...

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Lightning strike

Sorry for the PWS outage!The house was hit by lightning on Monday 10/26, taking out our Internet connection, the weather station server, and a variety of other equipment.We're back up on a standby...

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Bastrop Wildfire

Well, folks, it looks like we're on the Western edge of the forest fire that's engulfed Circle D.We are located just about 1/2 mile to the North of the local fire station, and WUG is showing the fire...

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Au Revoir, y'all

To whomsoever might be following the weather at KTXBASTR2, greetings:Our time in Bastrop is nearly at an end. The Labor Day wildfire, thankfully, missed us - but it put significant doubt in our hearts...

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