Outside temperature sensor housing (2025 Update)

Can you just mount it under an eave? In my last house I put it under the deck that is 8' off the ground.

My new system is Accurite and the outdoor system is mounted on a piece of 1" emt I drove into the ground. Of course it measures rain so no need for a cover.

Tekkie® snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net wrote

Really depends on how close you want to get to the temperature you would get with a proper stevenson screen. Those are quite large because they need to hold the other instruments read manually and to hold the ones with a chart recorder.

They are white painted wood slats.

You can get pretty close with white insulated plastic with some way of letting the air flow thru it. Or a small electric fan.

There are plenty that are buyable with varying design quality.

The outside temp-only sensor on my last 2 units was made to be mounted outside as-is. No cover called for. Full Rust Belt 4 season weather. One Radio Shack, one LaCrosse

Yah every time I find a nice shady spot to mount the sensor, an hour later the damn Sun moves and the sensor is back in direct sunlight.  ;-)

FWIW, don't waste your money on one of these because they don't work very well at shielding the Sun.

What does work (but is expensive) is a solar powered vent mounted on top of a  12" long piece of 6" ID PVC pipe

Having said that, I see LaCrosse sells covers

That isnt very accurate at night.

Rain does not hurt the one I have out back. Gives temperature and humidity inside and outside the house. I have another couple in front under overhang of a few feet of porch. One is on the wall with a wire to the sensor outside and the other transmits. There are plenty of different units available at low cost.

Best is north (south for you upside down part of the world people) side of the house in the shade and far enough away from the attic vent to not be seeing that.

Tractor umbrella or canopy.

Solar radiation is not a factor at night, numbnutz.

Mine doesn't keep the rain out, but so far it is working fine. And as far as the rain is concerned the sensor has worked fine through a horribly rainy Spring.

My sensor is hung on the trunk of a tree. I then took a trash can and cut the bottom off and slit it down one side. Then I spread it open and screwed it to the tree trunk around the sensor. A large bucket would probably work just as well. I chose a white one so it would tend to reflect the sun. My temperature now tends to follow the temperature reported on the news.

Bill

Bob snipped-for-privacy@nospam.fat wrote

But lack of movement of the air is, f****it.

Particularly when its all iced up in a heavy frost etc.

I can tolerate a degree error, nitwit.

Nit snipped-for-privacy@picker.org wrote

You get a lot more than a degree error in that situation, stupid.

Retard!