Home weather station suggestions

Flatbed,you might try this company.I have some of their products and they have preformed well...
Tony
http://us.oregonscientific.com/cat-Weather-sub-Classic-Weather-Stations.html

I have an Acurite weather station. Very simple wireless install. Mine does wind speed/direction, rain fall, bar.pressure, in/out temp & humidity. Plus keeps records, and has alarms.
I found it at Bass pro last year around $70. I'm not sure if they have an internet accessible model or not, you could try contacting them.
http://www.acurite.com/weather.html
There is also Davis weather stations, I believe they have some that are internet ready, but hang on to your wallet, The basic unit I bought 20 years ago was almost $200.
www.davis.com/DavisWeather

I just found this one also. Not a bad price either.
http://www.lacrossetechnology.com/2814/index.php

We use some stations made by Peet Bros. at work and they seem to work well. We can pull data from the ones we use via a serial data connection. I'm not sure whether they offer a web interface.

i have a davis vantage pro2 that i broadcast on the internet as well. its been a very tough and reliable unit. all the davis machines are,,, dad has a davis weather wizard and its been great too. Davis is made in USA if that matters (it did to me)

not Walmart cheap by any stretch, but its better to buy a quality, accurate unit once vs several cheapies, my first one was a $100 unit from walmart that was garbage. inaccurate and didnt last a year. $100 wasted. To get online with a vantage pro2 your looking at about $500 (including datalogger) depending on where you look. The datalogger for online is around $130 itself.

mine was purchased through scientificsales.. great people to work with and best price i found http://www.scientificsales.com/weather-stations-s/1.htm?gclid=COTl08z05rMCFYYWMgod8HIAEg

If I may ask, what do you guys do with these setups?

velvetfoot said:

If I may ask, what do you guys do with these setups?

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Monitor and record the weather. I upload my data so it can be viewed by the public and the data also gets used by government (and other) agencies to help improve the public forecasts used by all. On top of that, it's just cool to be able to go online while I'm away and see what's happening at home. Going to the next level one could use this real time data to automatically control home heating, cooling and lighting.

Currently Im recording site wind levels to see if a windmill might be in my future. I intend on adding UV and sunlight modules sometime to see if PV's might be in that future as well. Plus, with them I can calculate drying and UV exposure index too.

You'd be surprised just how there are micro-climates within the larger area serviced by government weather stations. My temperatures and wind vary considerably from the government site located by the coast. The more consumer sites that feed this data back the greater the increase in forecasting accuracy.

I've also been using the less expensive Davis (Vantage Vue). There are known problems with it that can be fixed, and avoided if you spring for the Vantage Pro2, as others have suggested. But I bought it when if first came out for about $100 saving.

Now if I may briefly mount my soapbox...
...for temperature and wind, Siting is more important. The Vue mixes wind, dew point, temp, and tipping bucket rain gauge, all in one location. Wind and temp can't be well measured at the same elevation. I don't much bother with my wind readings, they're so sheltered. The Vue also has a very tiny stevenson screen which introduces significant warm bias into your temp unit. The only place I could put my Davis Vue for good wind would be on the roof of my house. Then I'd REALLY get warm bias. (I run 3 temp sensors, plus my old weather service mercury glass). So keep that in mind. Off soapbox.

Most VP2 users seem happy with their instruments. If I had a better location, I might consider upgrading.