AcuRiteIris (5-in-1) Professional Weather Station with LCD Display and Lightning Detection

Cool set up.

Well as you can see in the photo it's got a beautiful display that's hanging on my wall in my kitchen. It's easy to see as long as it's at eye level. Or on the counter. I had it a little too high at one point and I couldn't see anything. So make sure that you're paying attention to where you place it. The outdoor pieces are a good bit away, the connection is no problem. The rain gauge with wind 'thingy' LOL are attached to a PVC pipe and raised on the front of my outbuilding on my land. The temperature gauge with the lightning detection is on my screened in porch. So far? I love this thing. The only thing I have yet to find is where I can change the time from regular time to 24 hour clock... I mean surely it's got to be here somewhere and I just haven't found it. As for accuracy? I only have my phone app to compare it to and it is darn close. My phone app tells what the temperature is downtown, which is a few miles from me. That's one of the reasons I wanted this. Because it's not accurate to where I am. I live in the mountains so I wanted to know what it was outside my house, not downtown. But overall? I am very happy with this

Works good. Pay attention to the switches each device needs to be on a separate setting ie: A for the base station b for the remote and C for the lightening sensor.Also the remote sensor (temp/wind/rain) set to point north as on the head in front of the wind speed cups.Also while this does come with a mounting bracket you really need some pole to raise it above the surrounding area which is an issue for when you need to replace or recharge batteries.

This reasonable priced AcuRite weather station gives me all the information that I want or really need. A beautiful display and easy set up.

Instructions and setups are very easy to understand and follow. There is an option of calibrating the rain gauge but I found it to be very accurate without the added steps to fine calibrate that part of the unit. The display is VERY functional for all parameters including trends over time. The display brightness is also adjustable for bright or dimmer or auto mode. The separate lightning detector ranges out to 15 or 20 miles with a pointer indicating approximate direction plus a counter function. It would detect at such a distance that I didn’t even hear the thunder. This feature alone is invaluable if you live in an area with powerful thunderstorms. As a stand alone weather station I highly recommend this unit, you won’t e disappointed.

The easiest weather station set up ever. This is my third. lacrosse, logia were previous. It was working before I finished programming the receiver. I hope is lasts.

My husband loves this weather station. It took some time to install it but once it was up and going, it’s been great! The display inside is a great size and looks good. It can be either mounted or sit on a shelf or on a counter. I like that the display can be dimmed or brightened based on your preference. All in all, it’s good quality, reliable, and convenient to check the outside weather.

Update: This thing is a real piece if junk. After two months, and after my return period to Amazon has expired, the display unit failed completely.I was finally able to get it to come back to life by unplugging the power and removing the backup batteries to completely reset it, but then I had to completely reprogram the settings again and lost all of the previous history. I guess I'll have that to look forward to every so often, if I don't just throw the thing in the trash one of these days. DON'T EVEN BOTHER with this piece of junk. What a waste of money!Yet another Update: The reason for the reset is the thing is EXTREMELY sensitive to any electrical noise. Just turning on a light switch or plugging something into the same socket as the wall wart will lock the thing up. To reset it, you have to unplug the wall wart and pull one of each of the two battery sets, then go through the entire tedious setup process again.Initial Review:The user interface is baffling and times out so fast you don't have time to follow the step by step instructions for setting anything up properly. You have to know ahead of time what you need to set, and the procedure for doing so, or else you'll find yourself lost in a maze of options and then the damn thing times out and goes back to display mode. The only good thing about it so far is the temperature and wind speed/direction seem to work okay. The humidity sensor reads way too high all the time and tells me its raining almost all the time. As hard as I've tried to calibrate the barometer it just won't let me. The lightning sensor is extremely sensitive to electrical glitches from simply turning on a light switch.Also, the damn thing requires 14 (yes FOURTEEN) batteries to work properly! 4 for the sensor unit, 4 for the lightning detector, and 6 for the base unit. I tried using the base unit without the "optional" backup batteries and it wouldn't connect to anything. After installing them it worked just fine. What a waste of batteries!Followup: I bought this for my ham radio room and found it's not at all FCC Part 97 compliant. Even at the lowest QRP levels the monitor unit freaks out. I've moved it to my living room at the other end of my house now but that's really inconvenient and not what I bought it for.