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Simple .md

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Free · v1.0 · macOS 13 or later

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Weather Station Notes.md
# Weather Station Notes

A small rooftop weather station, built over one winter and left running since.
These are the working notes: where it sits, what it measures, how the readings
get off the roof, and the handful of things that turned out to matter more than
the hardware did.

## The site

The station sits on a flat roof about eleven metres up, clear of the parapet on
three sides. Height matters less than exposure — a sensor tucked behind a wall
reads the wall, not the weather. The one compromise is the western aspect, where
a taller building interrupts the wind after about four in the afternoon.
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