What is weather-station-alpha?

Weather Station Alpha is a homemade severe weather warning system built around a Raspberry Pi. Instead of relying on internet weather services, it gathers its own local sensor readings and uses them to predict dangerous weather before it arrives. The project has four main parts. First, it logs data from a USB barometer and wireless remote sensors and saves it to simple spreadsheet files. Second, it runs two machine learning models against that data every hour, one that predicts conditions one hour ahead and another that looks a full day ahead, both can learn from new local readings without needing to be fully retrained. Third, it runs a web interface where you can adjust warning thresholds, review the collected data, and see what the models are predicting. Fourth, it controls physical hardware such as cooling fans and warning lights that react automatically to conditions. Building one requires assembling specific hardware: a Raspberry Pi 3B+, a power supply, a microSD card, a USB flash drive, cooling fans, a relay shield for switching the fans and lights, a digital weather station base and sensor, a USB barometer, a USB radio receiver for reading the sensors, and an addressable LED light, all mounted in a metal project box. Setup involves installing Ubuntu Server on the Pi, wiring the relay shield and lights by hand, compiling a modified version of an open source radio decoding library so it can read the specific sensor model used here, and setting up a Python environment with several dependencies. The final steps configure background system services so the sensor logging, the machine learning engine, the web interface, and the fan and light controls all start automatically whenever the Pi reboots. This is an advanced hobbyist electronics and Python project meant for someone comfortable soldering, wiring circuits, and working through a long command line setup process rather than a plug and play product. The full README is longer than what was shown.