Garden Barometer https://furdena.com/ 2026-09-20T09:00:00Z A 14 hPa fall in six hours and what the sky did firsthttps://furdena.com/posts/pressure-fall-fourteen-hpa/2026-09-20T09:00:00ZHooked cirrus, a halo, grey altostratus, then rain and a wind shift: a front read from the garden before the barometer moved. Mammatus over the allotments and the storm that missedhttps://furdena.com/posts/mammatus-storm-that-missed/2026-05-17T09:00:00ZPouches hanging from an anvil over the town, the readings in the hour before, and a storm that went north instead. Hoar frost, minus 6.4, and a thermometer that liedhttps://furdena.com/posts/hoar-frost-thermometer-lied/2025-12-28T09:00:00ZThe coldest morning in the log, minus 6.4, and a ten-year-old shed thermometer that turned out to read 3 degrees warm. Rain gauge calibration with a 500 ml jughttps://furdena.com/posts/rain-gauge-calibration/2025-07-27T09:00:00ZDripping 100 ml through the tipping-bucket gauge found a 15 per cent under-read, a dead spider, and a corrected season total. Learning the ten cloud genera from the back stephttps://furdena.com/posts/ten-cloud-genera-back-step/2025-03-08T09:00:00ZNinety mornings naming every cloud to genus before writing the readings, with the tally and the clues that stuck. Siting the station: the shed roof was wronghttps://furdena.com/posts/siting-the-station/2024-10-05T09:00:00ZFive months of readings from a shed roof ran warm and still; moving the station to a pole on the lawn fixed both.