Anyone familar with weather stations?

18 years ago

I didn't know where else to post this. My father wants a weather station for Christmas. I don't know a thing about them, and would appreciate any recommendations anyone has. I guess I want it to handle temperatures, rain, humidity and wind. Thanks.

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gooseberry_guy
18 years ago
WindandWeather.com is one site you might want to check out for weather stations and other weather instruments. They seem to specialize in a good assortment of these things.

The link below, describes one model's functions that I saw listed in their catalog.

GG

Here is a link that might be useful: weather stations
gooseberry_guy
18 years ago
I didn't review the link I posted and didn't realize it wouldn't open to what I expected. I'll post the text the text from it below.

I had a chance to review that website today, and there seems to be quite a bit of info on there such as FAQs for weather instruments, as well as an offer to answer questions about instruments.

Wood-Paneled Sun/Moon Weather Center
ID2382A
An incredible amount of information is delivered on the sleek face of this weather center. It offers extraordinarily complete weather information, including barometric pressure, with both pressure history and trend indication. Additionally, it reports indoor and outdoor temperature and relative humidity, with minimum/maximum readings for the last 24 hours and humidity comfort icon, reports day and date, current time, plus tracks moon phase and length of day. It also permits you to select a North American city (choose from 250 cities) to time its sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset. Alarm and low battery indicator. One remote temperature/humidity sensor is included. With additional remote units, monitor temperature and humidity at up to three locations. Units can be wall or desk mounted.
Wireless Remote Sensor: Range 80' (maximum three)
Temperature, Base: 14Â° to 140Â°F
Temperature, Remote: -21Â° to 140Â°F
Humidity, Base and Remote: 20 to 95% RH
Barometric Pressure: 28.60" to 30.45" Hg
Weather Forecast Icons: Rainy, Cloudy, Clear
Time: Self-sets to U.S. Atomic Clock, 12/24 hour
Base unit uses three AA batteries (not included).
10" H x 7 1/2" W x 5/8" D
Remote sensor uses two AA batteries (not included).

Hope this helps!

GG

Here is a link that might be useful: Weather instruments
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Here are some other manufacturers to look at:
http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/index.asp
http://www.peetbros.com/

If you are looking for low cost try with WMR968 from oregon scientific:
http://www2.oregonscientific.com/shop/product.asp?cid=2&scid=84&pid=83

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