User:Sfws

Recorded daily weather on sheets of paper or in a notebook from when I was a child as despite being brought up in a city I found weather fascinating. I did not have enough knowledge to get into it as a professional career, and my notes relied on instruments sold for gardeners, not to quality needed for professionals.

On retirement I bought myself a Fine Offset Weather Station, used since early 2009 (although some parts have been replaced). Started using Cumulus 1.9.2 (build 1017) just because I wanted something that would produce web pages that I could experiment with (as I had decided to learn HTML 5, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP and MySQL; initially because I thought it gave me a saleable skill for my retirement). People described me as "Stupid Fool with Weather Station" and that made me register as SFWS! To thank Steve Loft, I agreed to finish off work started by others on documenting the original Cumulus software.

For a few years while away from home (and weather station), as a full-time carer, I learnt about METAR usage in all countries of world. When I got back to my home, after the last of my relatives died, I focussed on outside pursuits, and usage of any computer virtually ceased. I have moved twice since, so packing up, home-hunting, and subsequently unpacking plus home renovation diverted me from working on this Wiki.

In early 2020 I restarted using Cumulus 1 at my latest home in a village bungalow with garden where I hope to see out my days. When I decided to test out MX, I documented my experience and later documented my swap to Raspberry pi, but the Covid-19 pandemic has made my plan to employ contractors to remedy the serious faults in the previously neglected property I bought, raving me to fix what I can.

The newer features of MX are irrelevant to me, so someone else will need to finish off the MX documenting.