La Crosse Technology Color Forecast Station - Large Display, Temperature/Humidity Alerts, Seasonal Scenes - Indoor/Outdoor Monitoring, HI/LO Records, Barometric Pressure - Atomic Time, DST Updates

I like knowing what the weather is. My lacrosse weather station from Costco broke after 10 years. I then went on this ridiculous journey of buying at least $800 worth of weather stations trying to find a replacement that was not lacrosse. I sent every single one of them back And they all had a different problem with them. Mostly the sensors weren’t accurate. I bought this lacrosse unit and the sensors are accurate and I can recommend it, but do you know the display is weird and you really need to look at it head on if it’s sitting on the countertop and you’re standing up It’s just faded out LCD but if you get it up high enough and a fairly straight angle, it’s super bright and clear and well laid out. Now when I needed a real weather station with all of the sensors, I got a Tempest. But the tempest doesn’t have a nice display. You gotta use your iPad.

Purchased this as a second unit. I already owned the black/white version but decided to go with the color version. The packaging is much easier to open (the older model requires screwdriver). Same good quality and easy-to-use product. But, I decided to go with a different model S77925-INT (prefer the layout).

Indoor temperature shows 2 F more than my thermostat unfortunately

La Crosse has several layouts with similar info so you can pick what you want to look at. I chose this one for the emphasis on the outside temp. I can see that from afar. Time is tiny... don't get this one as a clock. This one has a couple extras which tipped the scales. Moon phase is a bonus, pressure graph is a bonus. But that's a personal preference.Tech setup was great after battling my old Sharp wx station every time the remote unit needed batteries. This one... insert batteries and it works. Did a quick roll through the settings and we're up and running. Nice to have some feedback on both ends too. Red light on the remote and signal strength on the display.Can't speak to the range as I'm not taxing it much. Remote unit is 10' away with one external wall between.Now to see if it lasts.Opportunities for improvement:- Backlighting has two settings (plus off) that are too far apart in my opinion. Super bright glowing like the sun, or barely on and worthless unless you're sitting in a pitch dark room. I'd set it somewhere between if I could but I'll live with the glare of the max setting.- When you have an atomic clock, accurate to the fraction of a second... it would be nice to have the seconds displayed. I'll miss that. But I'll use the smart phone to set the watch in the future... nbd.- The atm. pressure trend graph... I was hoping it would stop flashing once it got 24hrs of data, but nope. Dumbest display ever. 7 bars in the graph, it blanks out, then shows you one bar each second... so 7 seconds to wait until you see the trend... then blank again and it starts over. Hope you got a good look at it in that 1 second where it was complete. Really lousy design there. You could do that to the time display or the day text... build the anticipation showing it one letter at a time... but you don't because that would be insane and counter to the goal of displaying info. This isn't a neon sign in Vegas! Just show the bar graph and move it when the data fills in. And if you don't have a number for -24hr, leave it blank! It'll fill in after a day and in the meanwhile it's accurate and understandable. Really bad software decision there.None of that is worth losing a star.Note on batteries for remote. Lots of these long time remote things tell you to use alkalines and not rechargeables. That's because most rechargeables lose power just sitting there so you have to change all the time. I use Eneloops which do not decay much over time and they worked fine for my last remote unit. (and any other device with low power needs that need to last... i.e. remote controls)So far, loving the station. Accuracy looks good so far.

A really beautiful piece of technology by La Crosse -- Setup a breeze and began providing accurate information immediately.

First off I would like to thank LaCrosse Technology for creating these weather stations so I don't have to look for the internet. If you have a home (whether your in the urban, suburban or rural area) you will get better results setting up your station. If you live in apartments make sure you have a balcony with alot of shade, make shade on a fence and/or bush (it was frustrating until I figured something out). Please make sure your apartment approves of this too.Now to the product, I already have a weather sensor so all I have to do is get it calibrated to guess the upcoming weather (not the weather right now). People complain that this station don't give the (right now) weather when it predict the weather between 6-24hrs ahead of time so give it 2-4 business days to calibrate the weather in your area (check your weather on your phone tomorrow and it will already have that predicted). The relative pressure (barometer) I like you can set it and it rises and falls in .03 mercury inches....so if the internet says 30.02inHg and the station says 30.03 the station is just rounding off (unless the internet goes 30.04 and the station changes to 30.06 or it hits 29.99 and the weather station says 30.00). FYI sometime the stations goes .02 mercury inches keep that in mind. (PLEASE CHECK YOUR STATION BAROMETER MATCHES WITHIN THE INTERNET BAROMETER DATA IT WILL MAKE YOUR STATION ACCURATE)Overall if your impatient in letting the weather station work it's magic or not good at finding and good shaded spot for your weather station get your money back or don't buy....ive been using LaCrosse for 2 years and no disappointment and learn how to make their product work for me. Works out for me and gave you my thorough opinion about the product.