Adafruit points to these kits for building weather station monitoring instruments (humidity, temperature, solar radiation sensor, lightening strike counter, and wind speed and direction) and other environmental test instruments (soil moisture).
Hobby Boards weather kits
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These boards have been pretty popular in the home automation community.
On Woot today is a wireless weather station for $60.
Probably very hackable
woot -dot- com
These are 1-wire kits. Having 1-wire work on the Mac is difficult, there’s no easy to use software like on Windows.