Nope, this is not a request for donations. This is a request to Partner and Invest in the development of said Blockchained Weather Station.

It is my view (hopinion), weather data is best collected over large zones, by as many collection points as possible. The easiest way to ensure mass adoption is to offer the hardware for free or utilising a staggered pricing approach. In order to  incentivise usage the system could have small amount of tokens distributed along with the hardware, while also "mining" more of the token, which would be made available to the owner.