hi, I would wrapp this up to a full weather station with sensors for pressure, density, wind-direction and -velocity, moisture, etc, so anything waether channels need .
this could been done as a complete box but I don't know how expensive this is. but you shouldn't underestimate real-time data. when these boxes detect something and a workunit runs for one hour the data could be worthless because the twisster is gone before it was send back to the server .
Andreas