Weather stations

An automated weather station is a structure or device equipped with sensors that respond to electronic stimuli, which have the ability to record and collect meteorological information automatically and in real time. This allows monitoring the variation in air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, leaf humidity, wind direction and speed, rainfall, soil temperature, atmospheric pressure, among others. Since the climate is one of the most determining environmental components in the adaptation, distribution and productivity of living beings, weather information is a fundamental part of decision-making in modern agriculture that requires updated meteorological information to guide production processes. In addition, agriculture is an activity closely related to water resources; the amount of rainwater, the humidity stored in the soil, water evaporation, the amount of solar radiation and wind are some of the climate components that year after year affect crop production.