Our weather station ;)

Matt's overwhelming passion is very much dependent on the weather being just right. He tends to use Windguru quite a bit but hates Accuweather saying it is far from accurate apart from July and August when it is sunny and around 35C every day! So we have a weather station in our garden. It consists of three important parts.

The Weather Stone. No doubt many of you will already know about this. A simple piece of equipment. If it is warm and dry the weather is sunny. Cold and dry, the weather is cloudy. If it is wet, it's raining and if we can't see it, it's foggy.
We need further equipment for the wind. This is the Windmill. If the sails stop and start it is gusty and not much good for windsurfing. If they move slowly the wind probably isn't good enough and if they whizz round it's time to head off to the Surf camp. There is an additional piece of equipment called the Bell. We used this before we bought the windmill and it is fairly basic. If it rings it is windy and if it doesn't it's not  ;)

Oh and I almost forgot - another integral piece of equipment is the thermometer. As we usually only ever visit between April and October it mostly tells us it is quite hot, hot, very hot or flipping sweltering. It is situated in the shade away from the walls of the house so is pretty much accurate. Today it is 31C so that puts it in the hot range. 35C is very hot and 40C flipping sweltering. :)

Matt fettling with his board