While we’re on the subject of weather, the Weather Nerd and Hardware Nerd in me are in love with this item. The Ambient Weather WS-2080 Wireless Home Weather Station can turn any home in to a weather station, complete with tools to measure wind speed, wind direction, temperature and humidity (both inside and outside), rainfall and barometric pressure.

The first website I ever worked on was a (now defunct, thank goodness) site covering weather in the Memphis area. We had similar weather station with a webcam across from it. For 1999, we were cooking with gas. This station makes me miss those days.