Weather Stations

[Lenny5160]

Originally Posted by Jason Shepard

What are some recomendations for weather stations? What do you like? Dont like?

What level are you looking to get into? Something to reference for changing conditions, or a full ET prediction suite?

For years, I used a Kestrel and either logged by hand or used a HP correction spreadsheet that I created to help with predictions. I rarely did anything with the information I was capturing.

Since 2015 I’ve been using an Altalab trailer weather station with Crew Chief Pro software. I mostly use it for predictions when running NHRA events, but when bracket racing I always enter my runs so I have a larger database to study and try to refine the prediction formulas. Blessing and a curse. You can refine the predictions but you can also get lost. Anyway, I love that the software is constantly capturing and storing the weather so I don’t need to input it.

At the time, the Altalab seemed to be the best available. Lately it seems that the Computech Race Air Cloud is pretty popular, and I believe includes their own prediction software. I don’t have any experience with their stuff so can’t comment further.

If you take your racing seriously, I’d strongly recommend a trailer-based unit.