Tempest Weather System with Built-in Wind Meter, Rain Gauge, and Accurate Weather Forecasts, Wireless, App and Alexa Enabled

I became aware of this product through other users and was thoroughly impressed with its amazingly simple design (from the end users standpoint) and exceptional functionality, so I purchased it even though the price was 2 times the cost of similar devices with more complicated designs (separate sensors and many parts which you have to put together). As described, its set up couldn't have been more simple. I mounted mine 15 feet above the ground on 1.25 diameter heavy duty mast pole. The trickiest part was making sure the arrow on the device was oriented to true north (so you wind direction readings are accurate) from the ground. The software could not have been easer to set up and connect to the device (although I would suggest doing this and ensuring the device is working properly before permanently mounting). The software allows you to drill down on each of the reported sensors to not only get current readings but all readings since the device was installed. It provides a rudimentary forecasting element but I have not found it to be any more (or less) accurate then local weather apps. It gives you a great statistical package for sensors on your device which is phenomenal. It also gives you the ability to locate, and read other devices which I believe is an outstanding feature. Although, I cant sing it praises enough it has had two outlier readings which I cannot understand but they have seemed to have corrected themselves. One was wind speed. During the recent hurricane (to which we were located on the side (about 125 miles from landfall), no local damage, flooding etc.), Wind speeds were gusting to but with the highest recorded was 30 MPH at one point in time. However an hour larger with no corresponding wind the device started showing a constant wind speed of 60 MPH and did so for at least 24 hours. Once the sun came out and dried things up it has now seemed to have reset and is working correctly. The second issue was a reading of a .5 inches of rain when we had no rain or clouds in the sky. This too has corrected itself. With the two exceptions (which someone other than a lay person might be able to explain) the device and its software could not have performed any better. If you want a simple to install, simple to use, great statistic keeping weather station this is it. However, be prepared to pay for it.

Have used weather stations for years and years. I have spent so much money on weather stations only to get half of what I got with this. First off setting up this weather station is the fastest and easiest by a very long way. It is just almost fool proof and really anyone can set it up and get great results. Next off accuracy well I have it against a Davis and it is looking around the same most of the time it isn’t quite fair as they are not in the same place and it is getting sometimes a little more wind-chill. Rain accuracy, there are a lot of complaints that it isn’t accurate but I have to say so far it seems to be about spot on and I do LOVE that it alerts you when it starts raining.OK here is the one I am still totally amazed about. I live up almost a mountain and the weather actually can be very different here than three miles away. It can be snowing here and nowhere else near There have been days where it has been raining three miles away all day but no rain here dry as anything. So weather prediction one day during this winter was no snow for another week however tempest told me we we’re about to get snow I called bull. It snowed here dropped about four inches and literally down the road about two miles away nothing!!I have finally experienced it’s lightning feature wow what a nice added bonus to having this weather station. I am a bit of a silly fiddler added this tempest to HomeSeer so when it detects lightning it then plays a thunder sound across the Sonos speakers. Of course I forgot I did that and the other day I could have sworn I saw a flash but. Anyway within the next few seconds I heard Sonos playing a loud thunder sound that made me jump out of my skin. I might have to disable that.So overall I think this product is really fantastic I just hope it lasts a long time. Most of my other weather stations when it got time to change the battery never worked well after so this has another added bonus of never having to change the battery. Did they think of everything!!!? Maybe.There are a few negative reviews for this and most of them mention the reason is rain and wind direction. I personally think that if you need to reply on rain reporting then you need a separate rain sensor however this so far has been fairly accurate in comparison to my dying Davis. The wind speed and direction show the same as the Davis so I don’t see any issues there. For the people who had the device fail after a year that isn’t so great and maybe the company should send a new one out after all this really should last at least five years in my opinion. Time will tell.