Split out the Recorder section and then exclude a bunch of stuff that @Brianjking did in https://github.com/brianjking/hass-config/issues/37

configuration.yaml

@@ -89,10 +89,7 @@ history:
      - sensor.date
 
 logger: !include logger.yaml
-
-
-recorder:
-  purge_days: 7
+recorder: !include recorder.yaml
 
 mqtt:
   broker: 127.0.0.1

recorder.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+############################################################
+# recorder
+############################################################
+
+purge_days: 7
+exclude:
+  entities:
+    - sensor.weather_apparent_temperature
+    - sensor.weather_humidity
+    - sensor.weather_icon
+    - sensor.weather_precip_intensity
+    - sensor.weather_precip_probability
+    - sensor.weather_summary
+    - sensor.weather_temperature
+    - sensor.weather_hourly_summary
+    - sensor.weather_daily_summary
+    - sensor.weather_wind_speed
+    - sun.sun