This is the first of many posts describing my hobby weather station build. The goal in building this project, apart from having a nifty weather dashboard with data fresh from my back yard, was to gain more knowledge about LoRaWAN, The Things Network, Mikrotik’s LoraWAN hardware, Heltec CubeCell dev boards, environmental sensors, InfluxDB, Node-RED, Grafana, and lots more. The station needs to be solar powered, maintenance-free, reliable, and operate in our Canadian prairie weather between -35℃ and 35℃ without missing a beat.