I’m Benjamin Raisanen. I started St Nicholas Weather in 2021 as a hobby. Most data is collected automatically and is available on the Met Office website.
Technical details
The station is comprised of several parts, which are all listed below. You can see a video of the main sensor suite (A) operating in sleet.
Specs
| Equipment | Purpose | Specs |
| Sensor Suite (A) | Collecting atmospheric data | a piezoelectric rain gauge, an ultrasonic anemometer, a thermometer, a hygrometer, a solar panel |
| Sensor Suite (B) | Collecting air quality data | a PM2.5 air quality sensor |
| Sensor Suite (C) | Collecting visual data | an FHD infrared camera |
| Server 1 | Processing raw data from the sensor suite | a microcontroller an RF module (868 MHz) |
| Server 2 | Processing visual data from the infrared camera Future-proofing | 4x 3.49 GHz CPU 4x 2.42 GHz CPU 10‑core GPU 16-core Neural Engine 100 GB/s memory bandwidth Hardware‑accelerated H.264, HEVC media engine 802.11ax Wi-Fi, gigabit ethernet |
| Router + ONT | Connecting the servers to the internet | a fibre optic connection to Cardiff Empire exchange (approx. 940/110/5 ms) |