Home Weather Station: My ten-year-old weather station has finally measured its last temperature. Wondering if any fellow hoggers have a recommendation for a replacement? Looking for...

bobforman Loc: Anacortes, Washington State

My ten-year-old weather station has finally measured its last temperature. Wondering if any fellow hoggers have a recommendation for a replacement? Looking for windspeed, temp, humidity, etc., with wireless remote. I've heard Ambient is good; any others I ought to consider?

MrBossHK Loc: The West Valley of Phoenix metro area

bobforman wrote:

My ten-year-old weather station has finally measured its last temperature. Wondering if any fellow hoggers have a recommendation for a replacement? Looking for windspeed, temp, humidity, etc., with wireless remote. I've heard Ambient is good; any others I ought to consider?

I have this Ambient Weather station and I am very satisfied with it's performance.

http://www.ambientweather.com/amws2000.html

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I used an Ambient weather station for many years until the barn computer died.

quagmire Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina

I've had two ACCURITES high temp sensor went out on last one after a year, but every thing else works (wind, rain humidities)

Gahatt Loc: Lords Valley,PA

I have an ambient weather station for 5 years and experienced no problems with it. Reported data is consistent with the few others within a 25 mile range of my location. Measures temp, humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction, uv level. It has a dashboard display to monitor data and I have it tied to ambient to collect historical/trend data. I feed its data to weather underground and d pws networks. Have been satisfied with its reliability and performance.

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

bobforman wrote:

My ten-year-old weather station has finally measured its last temperature. Wondering if any fellow hoggers have a recommendation for a replacement? Looking for windspeed, temp, humidity, etc., with wireless remote. I've heard Ambient is good; any others I ought to consider?

I just walk outside.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

I have a weather station I got at Costco a few years ago that does all that (temp, humidity, wind, rainfall, etc.) except it doesn't have a wireless remote.

neillaubenthal

bobforman wrote:

My ten-year-old weather station has finally measured its last temperature. Wondering if any fellow hoggers have a recommendation for a replacement? Looking for windspeed, temp, humidity, etc., with wireless remote. I've heard Ambient is good; any others I ought to consider?

I’ve got a LaCrosse…works well Nd it was cheaper than others when we got it.

Hanksite Loc: Greenville, SC

Check this out. I have been running it for over a year and the data is great. New concept in home weather
stations. Richard

https://weatherflow.com/tempest-weather-system/

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

rplain1 wrote:

I just walk outside.

The nice thing about the weather station I had was that it could write the data to a file. I took those data and made a database so I could look up historical data. Anywhere from the last hour to the last decade (when I started).

I found it useful sometimes on the farm to keep track of rainfall amounts and temperatures. Temperature/humidity data are valuable in predicting fungus problems.

Or you might just want to brag that your temperature reached 107F last Thursday.

williejoha

La Crosse Technology makes all kinds of weather station from simple to really involved.
Great Products.
WJH

PACSMAN Loc: MA

bobforman wrote:

My ten-year-old weather station has finally measured its last temperature. Wondering if any fellow hoggers have a recommendation for a replacement? Looking for windspeed, temp, humidity, etc., with wireless remote. I've heard Ambient is good; any others I ought to consider?

I also purchased an Ambient 2000 to replace a 10 year old Davis weather station. The console is great and it also can connect with Weather Underground and and Ambient. There is also an app so you can monitor from anywhere. In addition I added some extra temperature/humidity sensor and a lightning detector. I'd recommend it.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

bobforman wrote:

My ten-year-old weather station has finally measured its last temperature. Wondering if any fellow hoggers have a recommendation for a replacement? Looking for windspeed, temp, humidity, etc., with wireless remote. I've heard Ambient is good; any others I ought to consider?

I helped fund a KickStarter project a number of years ago, BloomSky. I have their full package and it has worked very well. Check it out at: https://www.bloomsky.com/

bwa

Steven Loc: So. Milwaukee, WI.

NOAA

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Steven wrote:

NOAA

NOAA is a valuable source of historical information, but a local weather station provides more granularity (unless your local weather station is reporting to NOAA).