How do you document the weather?

[xMermaidx]

I do a cover page for each month in which I have a little thermometer with the high and low temperatures recorded. This year, I want to change it up and have been scouring galleries looking for inspiration. However, I am having a hard time finding ways to document the weather for the month. How do you document the weather and do you have suggestions for how I can go about documenting a month's worth of weather onto one journal card? Thank you!

[kristijoy]

What a great idea! Never thought of that!

[rach3975]

I have 2 ideas that might work for a month of weather on 1 card. Depends if you want the actual weather each day or if a forecast is good enough.

For forecasts, the weather app I use on my phone creates a widget that shows the 5 day forecast in a straight line. I frequently do a screen shot and then crop so that only the widget shows. You can see an example on this page.



You could probably fit 6 of those on a card if you shrank them a little. (The 1st one in that line is "right now," which I keep on because I usually want to highlight it.) I picked the widget from the Weather and Clock Widget by Devexpert.

My other idea, if you want to record actual weather rather than a forecast, would be to use a calendar grid and then fill each space with a dingbat or stamp plus the temp. If you happen to have it, Darcy Baldwin and Brook Magee used to have a font set called Yep, That's Life 1 that included storm, rain, sun, snow, and wind dingbats. Another one of their sets, Yep-a-doodle-boy, had partly cloudy and lightning, and an umbrella.

[Misty Cato]

I think you should geek-out and make a pie chart with slices for rainy days, sunny days, etc. Or do a line graph of the temps over the course of the month.

[xMermaidx]

I am definitely going to give these ideas a try!

[Valgal]

I take screenshots on my phone from my weather apps. They're perfect for 3x4 pockets if you pocket scrapbook.



Or you could take a screenshot of your computer screen.

[kendallt]

Originally Posted by Valgal

I take screenshots on my phone from my weather apps. They're perfect for 3x4 pockets if you pocket scrapbook.



Or you could take a screenshot of your computer screen.

I do the same. Here's an example from one of my spreads:

[Valgal]

We're so smart

Originally Posted by kendallt

I do the same. Here's an example from one of my spreads:

[tanyiadeskins]

I don't want to include the weather all the time, but every few weeks I will add a screen shot of the weather so we can see how it changed through the year.

[kendallt]

Originally Posted by Valgal

We're so smart

[MamaBee]

I do the same as the others with forecasts from tv weather and using apps. I also love instaweather app... I take a photo of snowy feet and then pick a different wrap showing temps or winds etc.

I'd link, but currently on my phone...

[xMermaidx]

Thank you for all the suggestions! This is what I decided to do. I am still using thermometers and recording the highest and lowest temperature for the month. On the calendar card, I am putting little weather icons to record each days weather.

[rach3975]

Looks great!

[Sherri Tierney]

I like to screenshot the pictures from our local weather guy's blog posts.

[Smandysen]

Great ideas! Think I'll be adding weather info to my page...

[michelepixels]

I also take screenshots of the weather app on my phone.