Until the mid-20th century, most countries and weather organizations had their standards and practices regarding the installation of their weather stations. Some weather stations also measured wind speed and wind direction and other weather-related parameters. These stations consisted of devices to measure temperature, air pressure, humidity and precipitation.

Over the following centuries, many new weather stations were constructed. The measurements of the weather instruments were carefully noted down, even in the middle of the night. It is the oldest mountain-top weather station and has one of the oldest continuous meteorological datasets.īefore the era of computers and digitalization, all data must be collected manually at fixed times. The weather station opened in 1781 and has had a continuous dataset of the weather since 1781. One of the first weather stations is deemed the weather station on the top of the Hohenpeißenberg mountain in the German town with the same name. This combination of weather instruments is what we call a weather station.

Since the mid-19th century, these instruments have been used to measure various weather data. Different weather instruments have been around for a couple of centuries.

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