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by RonTheAppraiser

Yesterday here just north of Albuquerque, Northern Mexico we had rain, freezing rain, and snow accompanied by 45 mph winds. The Tempest was spot on wonderful for the winds. But NOT for the precipitation. My AccuRite station (and four other non-Tempest weather stations within 0.25 miles) all recorded between 0.46” and 0.52” of precipitation. My new Tempest recorded 0.22” of precipitation. That may have been correct for the liquid precipitation, but it completely missed everything else. I am very disappointed. Is there a “workaround” or “fix” in the recording/reporting software for the non-liquid types of precipitation????

The iPhone app is pretty decent once you learn all the tricks for expanding the particular area if interest (wind, precipitation, temp). I wish there was a weekly/monthly/annual ytd summary available. And the interface with WeatherUnderground is perfect - simple, accurate, continuous.

by Electric Monk

Nice hardware, but i feel like the app is trying to hide the actual info from my personal weather station behind forecasts and things I’m not interested in seeing. The old version was preferable, where it was just my station’s readings, history, and graphs, but now that’s hidden away under the little icon at the top, and launching the app always starts me in things I have no interest in. These changes also impact the web links, but you can modify the URL for the old interface. Additionally, you can’t set the unit to Celsius and then share the web link to your station to your American neighbours as they can’t then view it in Fahrenheit, your personal preference is also what’s reflected on the web link, instead of allowing them to pick unit.

by KM IT Associate

The app is as good as I could have hoped for. Set up and use are extremely easy and clean. The only issue is the inability to schedule notifications or mute them for a select period of time. No need for 30 (very timely and accurate) lightning notifications at midnight as a storm rolls in. Would love to be able to force touch and mute a notification for a half hour OR select to mute notifications around bedtime. Another option would be to add a mileage range to notify within. Often get notifications as a storm rolls past us 20 miles away.

All in all, fantastic work! Let’s tweak the notifications and we’d be a 5 star app.