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

June 2024 This is an update to my several reviews below, spanning the three years I have owned and used a Tempest Weather station. It is probably best to read the earliest (bottom) review first to gain a full view of my experience. Sadly, in late Fall of 2023 my Tempest Weather station began exhibiting several problems, including intermittent power loss, odd (or no) measurements from certain sensors, and general dysfunction which became progressively worse as the seasonal temperatures became lower and the days shorter. Eventually the unit was no longer providing useful information. I ignored the issue for several months as I was busy with other matters. Eventually I contacted Weatherflow support and was astonished at the speed of response and the interest they demonstrated in fixing the problem. First the support agent checked the data my system had been sending and we agreed on an approximate date the dysfunction became near total. She then compared that date to my purchase date, determined that I was still under warranty when it happened, and immediately offered to send a brand new unit at no charge. Wow! The loss of power issue was determined to be most likely a user- caused problem (that's me) and I was asked to pay for a replacement hub, which was more than fair. The new weather station and hub arrived quickly and I installed them back in their mounts. Once the new unit was online and sending regular data streams, Tempest support merged the old stored data records with the new data records being produced by the replacement machine. I now have a fully functioning weather station and cumulative data records going all the way back to the first day of installation of the original device (minus those days when it was no longer capturing data.) So, the less than perfect news is that the original device had a life span of about 2.5 years before it ceased being useful due to malfunction. The great news is that Weatherflow not only stood behind their product, they were incredibly helpful while doing so. I'm leaving my review at 5 stars, and appending this update to reflect events as they have occurred. I want to commend Weatherflow again for producing the best consumer priced weather station I've ever owned, and for standing behind their product when something went wrong. This is a quality company, with quality employees and I strongly endorse their offering. June 2022 This is an update to my review below, which was originally posted in July of 2021. All of the comments I made in the original review below are still true - except - the accuracy of the rain gain has improved greatly over the past year, just as the Tempest folks said it would. The haptic rain guage collects local data, which is then filtered through AI and compared to other nearby weather data collection devices and systems. After midnight each night, the localized data collected by your Tempest is adjusted to reflect the broader dataset collected from other nearby devices and systems. The post-midnight adjusted rain data is remarkably similar to the two analog rain gauges I have near where my Tempest device is located. It took several months for the accuracy to improve (just like tempest said it would.) It is now nearly identical to the analog gauge measurements. To understand how Tempest heuristic AI works, see this page from their website: https://weatherflow.com/tempest-forecasting/ One year in, I still view my Tempest weather station as (by far) the best of the weather systems priced under $400 that I've owned over the bast two decades. Original review below, posted in July 2021: The Tempest Weather System is the most recent of approximately a half dozen consumer priced weather stations that I have owned over the past 20 years. The two issues that are paramount for me are accuracy and durability. The latter issue (durability) is the usual reason for looking into alternatives as 2 - 3 years seems to be about the norm before the earlier systems I've purchased for $400 or less tend to break down. They usually do not fail all at once, but instead start losing selective components one at a time until the overall unit ceases to be useful. Ease of system setup and the ability to remain connected to both the local WI-FI setup as well as the internet are also important. The Tempest was extraordinary simple to setup and was operational within minutes of being taken out of the box. It has never become disconnected from either my mesh WI-FI setup or the internet since going operational, even though the unit is installed above a metal roof at least 20 meters from the closest WI-FI relay point. The unit is unusual looking and operates using non-traditional technology for several of its data captures (as can be read about on the manufacturer's website.) So far the accuracy as compared to several onsite analog devices is very high. The haptic rain gauge sometimes reads more rain than an analog gauge placed within a few feet. The AI based correction that occurs each night is a bit aggressive and often over-corrects so that the final rain tally is lower than what analog gauge is showing, although the ratio of difference is lessening over time, which is what the manufacturer indicates would occur as the heuristic AI does its magic. On balance, I'd put the overall accuracy of the combined measurements reported from the Tempest system as superior to any of the La Crosse, AccuRite, Davis or Ambient systems I have owned. The Tempest app also displays the reported data in the best manner of any of the above (which of course is a personal opinion.) It is impossible to know for now how durable the Tempest system will prove to be as I've only owned it for two months. Like most consumer technology, the price of weather systems has been decreasing for at least a decade. If the Tempest also proves to be durable it will be a significant improvement over its rivals. In my opinion and for my uses, the Tempest Weather system represents the best value currently available for consumer weather systems under $400. I highly recommend it.

The Tempest weather station was very easy to install and works quite well. I did have a few issues when I was going to do the install because I was installing it in a non-standard way. I live in an RV so is mounting it to the trailer and the back using a pole and a mount. Two problems I ran into first off mounting it to the bumper like I plan on doing required me to have a support higher up that needed to stand off from the side of the trailer but hold it so that it wouldn't wobble around a lot. Unfortunately I had to have somebody else do that because I wasn't able to install that myself. Second problem that I ran into was the pipe that I was using to install it onto. It says you need a 3/4 inch pipe to install it on however if you go to the hardware store and order a three quarter inch pipe don't get the plumbing pipe get the structural pipe. The plumbing pipes have threads on them and don't fit the connector for the weather station because of threads. What I did instead was go on to Amazon and find a mounting kit for this type of station that allowed me to install it without having to buy a separate pipe for it. The one I got has a bumper mount kit that screws into the bumper or to your wall either one and then has segments on it that can be removed individually or added to if need be you can buy as many segments as you need to get it as high as you need I bought enough to get it high up at 8 ft. Once I got it installed I set up the software and it was quite easy. One of the nice things about it is it does let you capture data from it using the online system. You can capture it into an Excel spreadsheet quite easily and there's instructions on the web on how to do that if you like to keep data on your weather stations progress. Back when I lived in a house I did that with the weather stations I had posted there and I have several years worth of weather data stored up. Now I can do the same thing with this one as well. As far as accuracy is concerned the only thing that I was cautioned by support staff was that it does need to be permanently mounted someplace because it requires GPS coordinates to give you accurate readings since it does have a learning system for the area. If you're doing RV living like I am if you're traveling a lot might be a bit of an issue but if you're staying in one place for a long period of time that might not be such a big problem it'll just have to relearn the location each time you go to someplace new. Overall I give this thing to five stars because I do like the unit it's quite nice and it actually tolerates moving around by my trailer quite a bit more than a normal weather station probably would!

Extrêmement facile à installer et à configurer.

Bello

Great product, worked straight out of the box (with wind adjustment for southern hemisphere). Software is easy to use with great features.

Works great. Easy setup. Couldn't ask for more. Data is able to be picked up by my Meteobridge, which I use to feed various online services like WeatherUndeground, CWOP, PWSWeather, etc. I can also use HomeAssistant to add even more automation.

Easy to install and integrate into smart home appliances. Many useful functions, like incoming thunderstorm warning based on flash detection, etc. It does exactly what advertises, good job!