London summers can be the most arduous of times. Since early July, we’ve had highs of 98 and lows of 48. We’ve had sun, rain and everything in between. Planning where to go or what to wear more than a few days in advance is an impossibility. I do my best, of course, combining AccuWeather’s useful-but-often-inaccurate extended forecasts with the Dark Sky app for up-to-the-minute weather alerts. Over the past week or so, however, I’ve added a new tool to my arsenal: the BloomSky. It’s an all-in-one outdoor weather station that, for currently $169 and up, provides you with hyper-local weather information. Although it hasn’t changed my life, becoming a meteorologist has been quite a lot of fun.
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