Product Description

Stylish Forecasting and Timing!! Forecasts the weather 12-24 hours in advance with three levels of pressure and temperature indicators: Rising, Steady or Falling. Displays indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity, and provides comfort level and heat index indicators. Sets itself to the US Atomic Clock signal resulting in no need to ever adjust for Daylight Saving Time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32 in Lawn & Patio
• Color: Black
• Brand: Oregon Scientific
• Model: BAR388HGA-BK
• Released on: 2006-08-25
• Dimensions: 3.00" h x 6.70" w x 4.70" l, 2.50 pounds

Features

• Automatically sets itself to the U.S. Atomic Clock never needs adjusting for Daylight Saving Time
• Displays indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity
• Exhibits moon phases, weather forecast, and weather trends
• Includes remote sensor with 100-foot range; reads up to 3 sensors
• Ice Alert

Amazon.com Product Description
Whether you're planning a day in the garden, at the beach, in the desert or on the mountain, this wireless weather station keeps you abreast of pending rain, sun, clouds, and more. Wireless and easy to setup, this weather station's remote temperature/humidity sensor sets up in the garden, greenhouse, shop and more, reporting data back to the main console from up to 100 feet away. The main console can receive data from up to 3 sensors with the purchase of extra remote to monitor temperatures and humidity levels in the baby's room, warehouse, music room, wine cellar and more.

The station also displays barometric pressure, outdoor comfort levels (comfortable, wet, dry), and is equipped with a heat index displays and warnings (caution, extreme caution, danger, extreme danger) when it gets too hot for your blood. Temperature, relative humidity, and barometric pressure trends are also displayed for more accurate weather forecasts. Four weather forecast icons indicate whether the weather is clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, or rainy. Weather forecasts are shown for 12 to 24 hours, so you'll know in advance the weather within an 18- to 30-mile radius.

More great features include audible high and low temperature alerts and a visible ice warning that helps you protect basement pipes and fish ponds. The unit also features an adjustment for altitude compensation for accurate barometer pressure readings at altitudes from 328 below to 8202 feet above sea level. With a chic design, the station measures 4.7 by 6.7 inches (width by height). And, the purchase is covered by a manufacturer one-year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews

Just a couple of caveats
This unit is easy to read and works great--compared to what, I dunno. We've never owned anything like this. But it's fun to have, much more so than a simple thermometer.



Two caveats however. You need a very small flat-head screwdriver in order to put the AAA batteries into the sensor. Not so small as the one in an eyeglass repair kit though. I had a small screwdriver with a shirt-pocket clip, that small, and still had to file the sides down in order to reach the deeply recessed screws. I'll have to do this anytime the batteries need changing. Not the best design perhaps.



Second, the instructions tell you to put the (outdoor) sensor (1) in a sight line with the (indoor) monitor-- (2) open to the sky-- (3) out of the sun-- (4) out of the rain-- (5) away from metal-- It's not easy to do all of this! Ours is nestled in a plastic container cut up into the shape of a bus kiosk and tied to a post. I'm not sure if it's all 100% necessary.



The atomic clock took about a day to find its signal. The instructions warn about this odd (to me) likelihood.



It's a little discouraging to have to deal with all of this out of the box but as I say the device is great.

Very nice but one caution
The weather station operates flawlessly and is very clear. I chose it because unlike some other models, this one shows both the indoor and outdoor conditions at once for both temp and humidity.
One caution: Although the description does not say so, this is a desk unit only not a wall mount unit--there's an immovable rest sticking out the back (most of the other models are not like this)

Truly excellent weather station. Only 3 slight issues.
After comparing this weather station to the more expensive ones, I gave in on the nice looks of this one and can't say that I'm disappointed. We really love this unit. We check the temperature and the humidity outside every day and not once was it inaccurate. The rain predictor is a bit fishy to me, it thinks it's going to rain 60% of the time when it never does. But it beats listening to the weather people on the news who can't even tell if it really is going to snow tomorrow.

The only 3 issues that we found with this are 1) it doesn't have a backlight so you can't see anything in the dark; 2) the time doesn't seem to adjust automatically to our zone and 3) the battery on the remote sensor died in like 2 months.

Despite these 3 issues, I would buy this unit again over all the others currently on the market.