Weather Stations

[flat-planedCrank]

Hi all,

Does anyone know anything about home weather stations?

My Dad had one that stopped working a number of years ago, and with Christmas coming round I thought I should research whether replacing it would be reasonable

I know his old setup has CSV file saving, rain gauge, wind speed & direction, pressure and obviously temperature.


Anyone have any recommendations?


No real set budget - would like to know what sort of range of costs are recommended

[Axionknight]

I just text my Dad to ask about his, he really likes it - tis' a ClimeMET 2000 or some such, it has rain fall data ability,wind chill/speed/direction, all sorts of temperature sensing stuff and it does it all in old or new money (F/C). He also says it is easy to use, which is quite a recommendation IMO as he is pretty crap when it comes to "all this computer malarkey".

It was about £150 or so, not sure if that'd be too expensive?

edit: http://www.skyview.co.uk/acatalog/CM2000.html

That's the one.

[philthy]

Vantage pro if he's serious about it.

[Puggit]

I would recommend 2 key attributes. Being able to look at your phone and see the weather at home, and being able to see/dump data for historic purposes.

[GetCarter]

I have this. Very impressive and quite sexy! Needs a wifi router to work.

https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...

[h0b0]

GetCarter said:

I have this. Very impressive and quite sexy! Needs a wifi router to work.

https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...

How is the outdoor performance? It gets poor reviews because the outdoor sensor doesn't like rain.

I have an accurite weather station. Has all the features you would expect but the in door accuracy was terrible. Just returned it and they said it was faulty and will send a new one.

[GetCarter]

h0b0 said:

GetCarter said:

I have this. Very impressive and quite sexy! Needs a wifi router to work.

https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...

How is the outdoor performance? It gets poor reviews because the outdoor sensor doesn't like rain.

I have an accurite weather station. Has all the features you would expect but the in door accuracy was terrible. Just returned it and they said it was faulty and will send a new one.

I have an 'analogue' rain gauge too and they are pretty similar. As are the max min and the indoor temp (I'm a bit of a nurd). It's important to place the rain gauge in the right place and get rid of the 'stuff' that falls in. Many don't.

It also does internal noise and CO2... looking back at the year I can see exactly what days we were on holiday. Spooky.

[Depthhoar]

A vote for the Davis Vantage Vue here. Not cheap but one of the the better sub-professional set up around. Possible to rig up the anemometer remote from the main station eg. roof-mounted for best and most consistent wind speed and direction. Interface not quite as good as the Vantage Pro but still very good for most home users.

Edit: Review of the performance of a Vantage Vue against a Stevenson Screen here:

http://measuringtheweather.com/wp-content/uploads/...

Edited by Depthhoar on Saturday 24th October 23:46

[theshrew]

Why weather station ?

Until 3 years ago I never gave much thought about weather forecasts it is what it is.

However since passing my bike test ( im not riding in the wet ) I find myself looking at them on my I phone pretty much every day or certainly as the weekend draws near. Sun forecast = no beer have fun on the bike Rain forecast = enjoy a few to many golden throat Chalmers.

My conclusion is don't bother looking until about 5pm the day before its a complete waste of time, even that it isn't that good.

However the weather thing on my I phone is fairly good on the actual day. For eg today it was 100% bang on.

[flat-planedCrank]

Thanks everyone, given me a lot of options to look into!

(I also now want a Vantage Vue for myself )

[karona]

I've one of these
http://www.greenfrogscientific.co.uk/aercus-instru...
feeding Weather Underground and several other sites. It's been up a year, and survived some pretty horrendous conditions.

[Spare tyre]

I have the weather station doodar from Maplins, around 100 quid

Out of the box it just works, displaying to its daft little screen. However I plugged that into a pic via usb and downloaded some software called cumulus. It is really good, stores highs lows, trends etc

Not logged at the screen on the physical weather station for about 4 years now, just look at the weather station webpage

Total geek fest but it is very interesting to watch the pressure dropping etc just before a storm

[jinkster]

GetCarter said:

I have this. Very impressive and quite sexy! Needs a wifi router to work.

https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...

Another Netatmo user here. Just send my outdoor module back as its lasting about 2 weeks with the batteries rather than 6 months or so.

[Magic919]

I've got the Davis Vantage Vue. If you don't mind all the sensors being in the same place, it's great. Had mine for about 3 years now

[GetCarter]

jinkster said:

Another Netatmo user here. Just send my outdoor module back as its lasting about 2 weeks with the batteries rather than 6 months or so.

My outdoor is 10 months next week and showing 3/5 full. Must be a fault.

[tenohfive]

I've got a fairly simple ClimeMET unit with one outdoor sensor but I would like something that'll allow remote monitoring by smartphone i.e. phone alarm goes off, roll over and check the temp outside before getting out of bed. Which means at some point I'll probably get a Netatmo if only because it looks like the cheapest reasonably reliable system that'll allow that.

[GetCarter]

tenohfive said:

I've got a fairly simple ClimeMET unit with one outdoor sensor but I would like something that'll allow remote monitoring by smartphone i.e. phone alarm goes off, roll over and check the temp outside before getting out of bed. Which means at some point I'll probably get a Netatmo if only because it looks like the cheapest reasonably reliable system that'll allow that.

Other benefits of Netatmo.. you have a record of everything back to day one, and you also can see hundreds of others that post online. You can 'invite' others to view all your stats also.

[Misaps]

I've got a Davis Vantage Pro 2 and whilst cost maybe prohibitive, I can vouch for their customer support service via the UK importer, McMurdo based in Portsmouth. I had a part go faulty after 5 years of ownership and they happily changed and serviced the equipment FOC, even paying for postage. So anything by Davis (the Vantage Vue being a good entry machine) would come recommended.

[Nimby]

karona said:

I've one of these
http://www.greenfrogscientific.co.uk/aercus-instru...
feeding Weather Underground and several other sites. It's been up a year, and survived some pretty horrendous conditions.

Same here. This and many others at the lower end of the price range are rebadged Fine Offset products, often with the same model number. There's a lot of good info over on the Sandaysoft forums.

[Elderly]

Speak to these people?
http://www.weathershop.co.uk