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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 DaveH48

First, understand that Tempest Weather Station is a device for collecting local surface meteorological observations for use by Weather Flow. It does this reasonabley well. It is very good at thermodynamics properties measurement. It is less good at wind speed and rainfaill.

WeatherFlow collects the data and provides it to weather services for use in model initialization. In return, it provides a local forecast for your location with more precise time of arrival information than that in NWS official area forecasts. This helps with planning outdoor activities.

The Tempest Weather app lets you see the current conditions and forecast on the go. I'm post-cataract surgery but still have near focus deficits. I have trouble reading the percipitation probability values in the iPadOS version of the app. The iPhone version is more readable.

The temperatures above them are easily read. WeatherFlow needs to review the UI for readability. If Gramms can't read it, it needs work.

WeatherFlow offers a number of activity specific Apps for sailing, kite surfing, agricultural operations, etc that use the WeatherFlow refined local data and modeling. These are subscription services. They may not require a local weather station. These are an example of what WeatherFlow can do with its refined local data and modeling.