It's rained a bit..

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Interesting concept - by measuring the frequency of your electric power supply you can see the health of the UK power grid, and in turn you can turn on or off your electricity usage to make sure you tend to use power when it's mostly produced by "green" sources:

How balanced is the UK grid at the moment?

This meter is monitoring the power balance of the UK electricity grid. If the needle is too far to the left, it means more generation is needed to meet demand.
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Our home monitoring system is coming along with the addition of a set of jeenodes (see them as wireless and battery driven Arduinos)

The slave nodes look like this :

the green box houses the 3 AA batteries making this a truly wireless solution, enabling me to move this around to anywhere in the house.

At the server things look like this

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So colder - and trains not running

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It is getting colder

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but nothing compared to Røros in Norway which has -40 degrees celsius for the 2nd day in a row.

But this is why if feels so cold in the UK

Btw. - a quite neat map

The humidity level is extremely high!
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