Have you tried NEWA from Cornell? It let’s you choose a weather station for basic information, but in addition it provides several modeling and forecasting tools handy for orchardists. Unless you live in a microclimate with different weather from your closest station, you can let someone else do to work for you.
I live in a microclimate running several degrees colder than the closest posted station. My weather station provides in and out temps, barometric pressure, dew point, relative humidity, visual weather prediction. I also wanted one with a max and min audible alarm. I was out and heating my orchard last year when it dipped into the mid 20s
After being disappointed at the cost and cloud-based systems most weather stations use, I ended up just buying a Raspberry Pi Zero W ($10 + shipping) and a temperature sensor from adafruit ($6 + shipping), and it’s basically plug + play with their sample Python code. I set mine to upload the temperature to my own website every minute, but it would be easy enough to save it to a computer on the local network instead.
I’d be happy to share my code if anyone is interested in trying this out themselves. Here’s the sensor chip I use, but they have others that combine temperature and relative humidity on a single chip:
I liked the setup so much that I have two now, one outside and one in the greenhouse. Here’s the dashboard that I created on my website to summarize recent temperatures, but I can also just browse the database or view particular dates: