On 2010-11-17, Red Green wrote:

Because I want one. Since I'm paying for it that's the only reason I
need.

Bingo!

Another reason, despite there being dozens of other existing stations,
none of them are right outside my window and may be far from what I am
experiencing at any given moment. I'm quite rural and the closest
online station to me is an airport 7 miles away. I've manually
measure temps of 15F difference from that airport. I'm also down in a
canyon next to a river. Nothing like the airport up on a windsweapt
plateau.

Another problems is the fact that some of those online weather
networks are all screwed up. On one site I've been to, I enter my zip
code and the site gives the correct zip location for myself, but
provides readings of a mountain pass located 50 miles away and several
thousand feet higher, a pass so remote it's closed most of the Winter.
IOW, totally useless.

As with most things, you get what you pay for. Wanting to try the
brand, I got a LaCross (Walmart) remote temp sensor. It died in 10
mos and was giving readings as much as 10F off. Basically, junk.

As for a reason, like you say, any one will do. The older I become
the more fascinated I become by weather. I used to live in dull hot
two season CA. Now I live in high cold CO (8000ft!), where it snows
and everything and weather changes by the hour. I'm like a kid in a
toy store!

nb