I was getting ready for bed last night when Laura said “Looks like our outdoor temperature unit has died”. We have a weather station that has an outdoor unit and an indoor unit and the outdoor one seems to always need new batteries. I came into our bedroom to look at the indoor unit and found that Laura was right. The outdoor unit was reporting the wrong temperature.
Remote Weather Station
But this was odd, usually when it runs out of batteries, it just reports a dash (-) for the temperature. Today, however, it was reporting 65 degrees and 25% humidity. Maybe the chip had gotten wet and it was malfunctioning.
A thought hit me and I decided I should investigate. It just seemed to strange that my remote weather unit would report what looks like accurate information, but not accurate for outdoors. It was, in fact only 30 something degrees at that time last night. I went outside and looked under the bush that I had placed our remote unit under and confirmed my suspicion that it was in fact GONE.
Great, I thought, some neighbor saw my remote unit under my bush and thought they’d swipe it for themseleves, apparently not knowing that its reporting it’s temperature to my indoor station all the time. So now I get to see what temperature their appartment is as well as my apartment, but I never get to know what temperature it is outside.
I found this slightly humorous and felt kind of spy getting to know what temperature my neighbors apartment is.
So once I retrieve my remote weather station unit from which ever neighbor swiped it, I think I’ll buy me a long rod and some cable and strap it to the ground.
I’ll keep you posted on whether I get it back…
