I kept the requirements for the station fairly simple:

• It had to have wireless communication between the sensors and the base unit
• It had to have a form of PC connection
• It had to be able to be uploaded to the Internet, especially to the Weather Underground
• It needed the basic sensors: temperature, rain, wind, humidity, and barometer.

What I found, with my father's help, was the Acu-Right Professional Weather Center Model 1035 with 5-in-1 Pro+ Weather Sensor.  The Sensor unit itself looks almost like a boat.  It has two solar panels to power a fan to improve the ambient temperature accuracy (the standard 5-in-1 only has a single cell)

Reading over the specifications at Acu-rite.com, and seeing the discount on the set convinced me to order.  The bundle only cost me about $100 and had free shipping.

However, I did run into a snag once I received it.  With my previous stations, I had been using Cumulus software to upload the data to Weather Underground, COWP, and to the website.  This software was not compatible with the Acu-rite equipment.  The Acu-rite PC Connect software would only upload to Acu-rite's service and to Weather Underground.  As I wanted to continue displaying my weather observations on the website and send it to COWP, I needed different software.

Enter Google.  As many do for many searches, I fired up Google and searched for Windows 10 compatible software that would allow me to essentially upload my weather observations the same as Culumus had.  I discovered in forums the mention of VIS Reader from Valley Information Systems.  While it is not completely free (you have to register many extra components for the full features), it did include all the uploading that I wanted.  The free features would upload my data to Acu-rite, Weather Underground, WeatherBug, and PWS, and create a local webpage report.  For a fee, it would also upload to COWP and to a website (among other features).

The default webpage that it creates is dark and has large gauges with the data.  While this is nice and does present the data, I had gotten used to the data table format used by Cumulus.  There is a solution for this!  The documentation included what placeholders to use for the data so one could make their own report template.  All that is needed for that is something to create/edit HTML code (notepad could work in a pinch).  

I downloaded the trial version of RapidCSS 2016 and got to work.  I compared the webpages for Culumus and VIS and set out to make my own.  

Using Microsoft Word, I created a mock-up of what I wanted my basic table to look like.  I could have just let Word create the webpage too, but preferred just using the mock-up as a guide while I created the HTML and CSS code in RapidCSS.  As it had been quite some time since I did HTML, and never did CSS, this was an educational experience for me.

The results of my coding attempts can be seen if you click on Weather from the site menu. 

So now I have a brand-new working weather station feeding a weather report on my site, that should be reliable for quite some time.  And the nice thing is, if I were to change hardware in the future to go back to a station that Cumulus supports, with simple edits of the placeholders, my template design will work for that too.