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

It was simple to install and link up to the base station. I was skeptical about the lightning detector till we received our last system of storms. We had over 100 strikes in the area. This was on par with the local weather radar. The screen is vibrant and easy to read. After this one, it will be hard to go back to any other temp/weather gauge. We are purchasing one for my mother-in-law for Mother's Day.

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

This weather station is just like our last one (which lasted two years) but also has lightening detection. The set up was easy, especially since it transferred easily to the last connections. We needed a lot more batteries to set this up--4 for the weather station, 4 for the lightening monitor, 6 for the inside station--of course it is not necessary to use the lightening monitor, and the inside station works with just the adapter, however it does not retain history during outage with adapter alone. Also, because there is now a lightening row on the station screen the clock is a lot smaller. We are using lithium batteries this time because the failure of the last one happened during extreme cold weather.

Works great

Cool set up.

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.

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

So... I bought the FIRST one early in 2017. It died less than 12 months later. Acurite replaced it as they should have. The second one lasted less than 12 months also. Acurite replaced that one as they should have. The third one lasted less than 12 months too. I didn't bother getting it replaced.The first one: After about 9 or 10 months, it stopped reporting data.The second one: After about 8-9 months, it stopped reporting wind information.The third one: After 10-11 months, it stopped reporting all data.The display unit: Everything about it is horrible. It's less responsive than a hotel remote control. Navigating the 'buttons' is difficult at best. It's a touch screen that responds poorly. The interface is horrible and difficult to wade through. There are no menus like you would hope to see. It makes you wade through every item to get to any one of them. One of my biggest pet peeves was that it didn't always display the dew point. Below a certain temperature, it displayed the wind chill. Above a certain temperature, it displayed the heat index. Dammit, I always want to see the dew point regardless of what the ambient temperature is. It was also difficult to read if you weren't staring directly at it. If you were off to the side by any amount, it was invisible. If it was even a little bit above or below you, it was invisible.The sensor unit: It is comprised of about $3.59 of plastic, a handful of small metal pieces and a couple small printed circuit boards. It weighs about two pounds and you wonder how it doesn't blow away. The wind speed sensor vanes on mine actually MELTED and warped during a typical Texas summer. The main housing has many vent holes in it that tend to double as spider access holes. So I had to take the main cover off once a year to clear out all the spider webs because the webs would foul the rain gauge and prevent the cup from emptying. They would also make webs/nests in other places including on the circuit boards. On one of them, the anemometer seized up. Fortunately, I still had the previous unit(s) and was able to yank the anemometer off one of the dead ones and swap out the bad anemometer on the 'working' unit. Lastly, it seems like the solar-powered fan was an afterthought. It didn't work well and the spiders always clogged it with their webs when it wasn't spinning.WiFi: You can't simply throw it onto your WiFi network. You MUST have the intermediate Acurite hub/switch.Overall: I found it difficult, tedious, tiresome and annoying, in addition to the low quality components that never lasted very long.I am now the proud owner of an Ambient Weather WS-2000.