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Phisherman wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:08:29 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:

I bought an indoor/outdoor weather station. The brand is Accurite.
It is a nifty setup that has outdoor remote sensors for temperature,
humidity, wind speed, wind direction, gives indoor temperature, barometric
pressure and a lot more. The problems, though, is the temperature readings.
They are 4 degrees low. IMO, that makes me suspect of everything else it
reads and is really about useless when it comes to a freeze warning.

I'm probably going to return it, but I'm wondering if anyone had good
experience with another brand in the less than $150 range?



Wow, 4 degrees off. I'd return it. I still use a broken aquarium
alcohol thermometer corked in a test tube and mounted where I can see
it from an indoor window. For more data than that I use the Internet
which gives me forcasts and satellite weather maps, better than
anything you can buy.

I confess I've never understood the attraction of the weather stations
myself. I can tell whether I'm hot or cold, indoors or out, without a
thermometer. I can also tell whether it's windy, or cloudy. Wind speed
and direction and even barometric pressure are relevant in aviation and
badminton, but other than that seem to fall into the useless information
category. Of course, I'm becoming somewhat of a luddite. I bet if I were
to own a watch, it wouldn't even have a GPS receiver built into it.