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very true but then it can of changed by the time you have drive that 30 miles.
Website for total rainfall
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I get the tech but RECORDING rainfall only tells you the historic part not the forecast Need weather radar for that and there are plenty to chose from. Its a bit like knowing which way the wind is going, when what you want to know is where it is coming from!
Weather stations have barometers. Falling pressure = rain likely. Ask a local to look out of the window at the sky. I've driven 25 miles in a loaded sprayer only to find to raining when I got there & not where I'd set off from. That makes you think of at least a partial method of information gathering.
warksfarmer
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Had a play with Sencrop today and yes it’s nice to look at but itthe same as a Davis. Our Davis has just stopped working at 10 yrs old. It was this one at £350 https://www.weathershop.co.uk/shop/...x-tkm1u8GWKRT4Ob6a8F7YH7fHjrYivhoCY1UQAvD_BwE
It syncs with a pc etc and yes it’s not as nice as the sencrop but it’s done 10 years service without any issues.
The sencrop (rain only not wind) is £379 to buy it and then £79.99/year so over 10 years total cost nearly £1200. You can’t just buy the gadget as it needs the app which needs the annual license fee.
Both Davis and Sencrop have a 2 year warranty. I’d buy the sencrop at double the price of the Davis as a one off without the annual license as that would be good value but I’m struggling to see why I need to pay an annual license when you don’t need to with the Davis. The sencrop does give you a weather forecast but there’s loads of free apps doing that and they all mostly feed off the same place anyway.
Wellington Weather UK. Current Conditions
www.wellingtonweather.co.uk
My nearest Davies station about 3 miles away. A great resource, but annoying that there is no point of contact for the website owner! ;-)
Love the Sencrop link though thank you, one just 1km away, pretty sure I know the Owner... Now bookmarked
The weekend thunderstorm was torrential here, and I was sure we had seen more than 3 miles away had recorded. We had, according to the Sencrop site.. 38mm as opposed to 22!!!
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I agree with Clive. Fantastic bits of kit with great service and backup. The running costs are pretty negligible and you don’t need a SIM card as many others do, as well as no need to be near WiFi or power source. They can be put anywhere and the app is pretty good. The only downside is the app gets a bit addictive, watching lots of local weather stations!!
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yes the app becomes a bit of a “habit” when it finally started raining tractor drivers and my dad etc were all texting me within minutes ......... they are all addicts !
a few local stations really show up the variation as well as you say, if we still grew potatoes I would put one in every field !
the Davis has to be connected to WiFi yes ? So great for your garden etc but not much more, we don’t have WiFi at remote farms
any other remote stations I’ve come across need SIM cards and cost thousands making the Sencrop a bargain imo
i had a Davis in the past and couldn’t get anything like the 300m from WiFi claimed, by the time you stick a few walks in the way it was so close to the office building it was shadowed re rainfall and wind ! If anyone wants it foc they can come and get it, it’s stuffed in a cupboard somewhere in the office I think
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the Sencrop network lets you see the upwind stations, alongside free radar services it’s useful for sprayer operators to see what’s coming
as I said though wasted journeys to farms or block of land where it’s more windy than at home etc os probably the biggest use, I recall in the past driving a combine 30 miles just to find out it had a storm we hadn’t at home !
not sure if it’s still running but Sencrop did have a TFF members offer a while ago plus a free 3 month trial ?
it’s can, howver I could set the app to alert me the moment it starts rainIng
infomstion is power they say !
yesterday it was raining here but sent our sprayer to a farm 30 miles away where it wasn’t and he did 400 ac we would have assumed we couldn’t if we had just looked out the window
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- North West
I had a play with the Sencrop app last night and there’s actual someone (I’m pretty sure I know who going off location) with two open access stations just down the road (Cash back ?) seems all the others in the area are restricted access?
. They may come in handy though as I’ve got some land just across the road from them ?
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- South Molton
I don't doubt that you can view all this Clive, but we all know what the weather is like in the UK its a guess.
By the time you have driven the 30 miles with the sprayer/combine and the hour that takes, what the weather station said an hour ago could have changed. But it does make the odds more in your favour.
A light shower can quickly change to a thunderstorm . That storm could have just skirted around the block you were looking at. We have all seen the lines on the road where the rain stopped and started.
Its a guide not gospel
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- South Molton
They don't have a £30 weather station from the Range either!!
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- South Molton
I know @jondear is a good stones throw from the Metoffice, I know what words he would use to describe their accuracy. TFF filters would be working overtime!
Anglia Farmers are running a deal with Sencrop for their own network. I was quite surprised to see your smiling face giving a testimonial on the AF website...!