If you go to the physics
building you will notice a
box with equipment in it on
the west side of the atrium.
That equipment is the
Texas Weather Instruments
WRL-25 weather station
located at UF and it’s
available for everyone to
see. What you might not
see, however, is the weather
sensors on the roof that the
box is connected to.
The sensors can detect the
standard array of weather
phenomena: temperature,
wind speed/direction,
rainfall, humidity, and
p r e s s u r e ,
as well as
some more
esoteric data
like lighting
counts and
solar intensity.
The weather
station records
and logs the
weather data
in its internal
memory.
The data is then downloaded
to a computer through a
network connection and is
displayed graphically. If
you are not in the physics
building for some odd reason
and thus cannot look at the
display in person there is
a website that displays the
same info. (http://www.
phys.ufl.edu/weather/).