Your own weather, from your own ground.

Regional forecasts average away exactly the details that matter on the ground: the wind that picks up on your ridge, the frost that settles in your low field, the afternoon your place crosses into dangerous fire conditions. A station on-site reports what’s actually happening where your decisions land.

It’s the same station behind our remote weather monitoring work, reporting to the same dashboard as your tanks, ponds, and rain gauges, so conditions and water sit side by side.

Add-on sensors for custom builds

The standard station covers rain, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, Delta-T, a fire-danger rating, and frost alerts. When a decision on your place rides on something else, we can add sensors for it. Pick the ones that fit the job, and we’ll build them into your station.

Weather add-ons

• Solar radiation (pyranometer): Measures the sunlight reaching your site, a main driver of evapotranspiration (ET), the water crops and turf lose to the air. Orchards, vineyards, and golf courses use it to schedule irrigation on real demand.
• UV index: Measures the sun’s ultraviolet strength. Golf course and field crews use it to know when sun protection matters most, and apple growers watch it because sunburn browning comes from UV-B plus hot fruit surfaces.
• Barometric pressure: Tracks air pressure. A steady drop is an early sign of a storm or front, so fire districts, water districts, and ranchers can plan crews and field work ahead.
• Leaf wetness: Records how long leaves stay wet, the clock many fungal diseases run on, so vineyards and orchards can time sprays by disease risk instead of the calendar.
• Soil moisture and temperature: A probe in the ground beside the station reads root-zone moisture and soil temperature for irrigation and planting calls. For several depths, or ground away from the station, our Soil Moisture Probes are built for the job.
• Snow depth: Measures snow depth at the station. Mountain ranches and small water districts use it to follow storms and melt-out on their own ground, a local check to read alongside the NRCS snowpack reports that runoff forecasts are built on.
• Lightning detection: Counts strikes and gives a rough distance to the storm. Fire districts get a log of nearby strikes, so after a storm with little rain they know to watch for new starts over the next few days. It is a record, not a lightning alarm.

Air-quality add-ons

Air-quality sensors wire into the station’s communication board, so they read the air where the station stands. For the inside of a barn or a greenhouse, we can build a custom project that puts the sensor where it needs to be.

• Wildfire smoke (PM2.5 and PM10 particles): Counts airborne particles, including the fine PM2.5 that is the main health concern in wildfire smoke. Fire districts and rural operations get a local smoke trend to read alongside official air-quality reports.
• Ammonia (NH3): Measures ammonia gas from manure. Outdoors it usually stays low; inside dairy, poultry, and hog barns, rising ammonia shows ventilation falling behind, so barn monitoring is set up as a custom project.
• Hydrogen sulfide (H2S): Measures hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas from manure pits and lagoons. Levels spike during agitation and pump-out, so a station that stands by the storage gives dairy and hog operations a record of those spikes.
• Carbon dioxide (CO2): Measures carbon dioxide. Outdoor air barely changes, so this one earns its place indoors: in confinement barns, rising CO2 means the air isn’t being exchanged fast enough, and in greenhouses it shows whether enrichment is working. Indoor setups are custom projects.

Add-ons are priced per build. Tell us what you want to measure and where the station will stand, and we’ll quote the complete build within one business day.

The smoke, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide sensors give indicative readings for trends and awareness. None of the air-quality add-ons, carbon dioxide included, are EPA reference monitors or OSHA compliance instruments, and they don’t replace personal gas detectors or official air-quality reports. The ammonia and hydrogen sulfide sensors also drift over time and need periodic recalibration or replacement; we’ll spell out that upkeep, and how often it comes due, in the quote. The lightning detector is not a lightning safety plan: if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck.