During quarantine, I missed building things. To get some more hands-on experience, I wrote a proposal to MIT to fund building a personal weather station on the rooftop of my apartment building in New York City. I am comparing its effectiveness at measuring air temperatures to a commonly used handheld infrared camera and other weather stations in the city. Building the weather station, which I nicknamed "Wally," was a great way for me to directly engage with weather monitors, whose data I have used extensively to understand heat vulnerability in New York City and develop a novel method to measure air temperature using infrared thermal cameras. Additionally, I will be integrating weather station data into my urban planning undergraduate thesis on air quality in New York City.