I used to paraglide and I was very vaguely looking into options for getting wind and other weather data from sites - back in the 00's it was still pretty comple

I used to paraglide and I was very vaguely looking into options for getting wind and other weather data from sites - back in the 00's it was still pretty complex, and I got as far as prototyping a very simple set up which was simply a LCD weather station in a box, with a symbian smart phone pointing at it. If you sent it a text message, it would snap a picture and send it back via MMS or email. I barely got it working, but never tried it in anger - most of the sites I flew didn't have 3g at the time. Amazing to see what options are possible now, I really should get a weather station going again, I wonder if I could get the signal from the beach near my house, as that would be more interesting than my garden.