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Something I have been meaning to try and find for a while now, but have no idea where to start…
Basically something to suit all the times I am wandering ‘how cold did it get last night’, or ‘hot hot is it right now’ – at home there is a nice digital weather station, but when I am away camping or the likes, I have no real way of knowing the temperature. So I would quite like to get hold of some form of thermometer I can pop in a bag or pocket that I can check for all those moments – something I can leave in the porch or outside the tent to record the minimum temperature, or pop in an outer bag pocket on a hike to see roughly hot hot it gets.
Sadly my quick checks online have turned up a huge amount of garden thermometers, weather stations, food probes and the likes, and to be honest I have no idea how to search for what I am actually after, so I am turning to you guys in the hope someone can point me in the rough direction…
So the basics of what I am after:
Portable: Obviously the first hurdle is the fact I have to actually carry it, so something that can easily be slipped into a pocket or bag as I really have no interest in lugging about something unwieldy ‘just out of interest’. Similarly something tough enough to carry around without worrying about breaking (though presumably mercury thermometers are somewhat rarer nowadays)
Suitable for a Scottish climate: about +30 to -15 celsius is probably about the temperature range I have been out in here, so something that can at least cover that.
Maximum/minimum markers of some form: Something I could leave over a period to find out the max/min temperatures – I am remembering a thermometer that hangs in my grandparents garden with wee metal markers that sat on the ends of the mercury to mark the highest and lowest points they reached
Cheaper if possible: As it often is, money is an issue, so the budget end of the market if possible for something that is essentially a toy…Any ideas?
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