I have the belief that the weather will tip to the opposite extreme in a big way, either as big thunderstorms or a big rain.

I well over this weather and collecting all this data throws the severe nature right at my face.

I have used cheap weather stations from Bunnings, but I found the accuracy, reliability and responsiveness to not be too good. I am using a Davis Vantage Pro2 which is not cheap but reports data extremely well. This lets me present data on my website and here much more accurately than before. I found this through a comparison I made between the old and new station that I published on my website.